Balad

Balad, also transliterated Beled or Belad, is a city in , , 80 kilometres north of the national capital, . It is the capital of Balad District.
Wikipedia
جبار محسن, CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • Town with 42,100 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 53 metres (174 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code XQC
  • Description: city in Iraq
  • Also known as
    “Balad - بلد”
    “Balad, Belad, Beled, بلد, Balad, Belad, Beled, بلد”
    “Balad, Iraq”
    “Belad”
    “Beled”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dhuluiya.
Ahmed Mooky, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dhuluʿiya is a town in Salah ad-Din Governorate, … is situated 8 km northeast of Balad.

Balad

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Latitude
34.00125° or 34° 0′ 5″ north
Longitude
44.15043° or 44° 9′ 2″ east
UN/LOCODE
IQ BAL
Open location code
8H662522+G5
Open­Street­Map ID
way 287897721
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­residential
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
98112
Wiki­data ID
Q1029645

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Balad” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بلد”
  • Arabic: “قضاء بلد”
  • Arabic: “مدينة بلد”
  • Arabic: “مدينه بلد”
  • Asturian: “Balad”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bаlаd”
  • Catalan: “Balad”
  • Cebuano: “Balad”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەلەد”
  • Chinese: “巴拉德”
  • Czech: “Balád”
  • Dutch: “Balad”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قضاء بلد”
  • Finnish: “Balad”
  • French: “Balad”
  • Georgian: “ბალადი”
  • German: “Balad”
  • Hindi: “बलड”
  • Hungarian: “Balad”
  • Italian: “Balad”
  • Japanese: “バラード”
  • Mazanderani: “بلد، عراق”
  • Mazanderani: “بلد”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Balad i Irak”
  • Persian: “بلد”
  • Polish: “Balad”
  • Russian: “Балад”
  • Russian: “Балада”
  • Spanish: “Balad”
  • Swedish: “Balad”
  • Urdu: “بلد، عراق”
  • Western Panjabi: “بلد”

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