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Baghdad Governorate

Baghdad Governorate, also known as the Baghdad Province, is the capital governorate of . It includes the capital as well as the surrounding metropolitan area.
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  • Type: State with 14,000,000 residents
  • Description: governorate of Iraq
  • Also known as: “Amānat al ‘Āşimah”, “Amānat Baghdād”, “Baghdad”, “Baghdād”, “Baghdad Province”, “Liwā’ Baghdād”, and “أمانة بغداد”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mahmoudiyah and Latifiya.

Town
is a rural city south of . Known as the "Gateway to Baghdad," the city's proximity to Baghdad made it central to the counterinsurgency campaign. has approximately 350,000 inhabitants, most of whom are Sunni Arabs, over 75% of are Sunni, as reported by the UNHCR IDPs list.

Town
, named after river, is an town south of , between and , inhabited originally by 97,043 people. It has a mix of Sunni and Shia Muslim population, and surrounded by in the west and the east by rural areas dominated by Sunni Arabs, while its countryside and towns to the north and south are Shia in their majority.

Baghdad Governorate

Latitude
33.0113° or 33° 0′ 41″ north
Longitude
44.385° or 44° 23′ 6″ east
Population
14,000,000
Elevation
38 metres (125 feet)
Open location code
8H56296M+GX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2914855215
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
98180
Wiki­data ID
Q191075
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Baghdad Governorate” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أمانة العاصمة”
  • Arabic: “بغداد”
  • Arabic: “محافظة بغداد”
  • Armenian: “Բաղդադ”
  • Asturian: “Gobernación de Bagdag”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bağdad mühafəzəsi”
  • Basque: “Bagdad probintzia”
  • Basque: “Bagdadeko probintzia”
  • Belarusian: “Багдад”
  • Bengali: “বাগদাদ প্রদেশ”
  • Bengali: “বাগদাদ”
  • Bulgarian: “Багдад”
  • Catalan: “Governació de Bagdad”
  • Cebuano: “Muḩāfaz̧at Baghdād”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای بەغدا”
  • Chinese: “Baghdad Séng”
  • Chinese: “巴格达省”
  • Chinese: “巴格達省”
  • Czech: “Bagdád”
  • Czech: “Guvernorát Bagdád”
  • Czech: “Provincie Bagdád”
  • Danish: “Bagdad”
  • Danish: “Baghdad”
  • Dutch: “Bagdad”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بغداد”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Bagdado”
  • Estonian: “Bagdadi kubernerkond”
  • Finnish: “Bagdad”
  • French: “Bagdad”
  • Galician: “Provincia de Bagdad”
  • Georgian: “ბაღდადის მუჰაფაზა”
  • German: “Bagdad”
  • German: “Gouvernorat Bagdad”
  • German: “IQ-BG”
  • German: “Provinz Bagdad”
  • Hebrew: “בגדאד”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז בגדאד”
  • Hindi: “बग़दाद प्रान्त”
  • Hungarian: “Bagdad kormányzóság”
  • Hungarian: “Bagdad”
  • Indonesian: “Governorat bagdad”
  • Indonesian: “Governorat Baghdad”
  • Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Bagdad”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Bagdad”
  • Italian: “Baghdad”
  • Italian: “governatorato di Baghdad”
  • Italian: “Governatorato di Baghdad”
  • Japanese: “バグダード県”
  • Korean: “바그다드주”
  • Kurdish: “Bexda”
  • Kurdish: “Bexdad”
  • Kurdish: “Parêzgeha Bexdad”
  • Kurdish: “بەخداد”
  • Latvian: “Bagdādes muhāfaza”
  • Malay: “Pentadbiran Baghdad”
  • Mazanderani: “بغداد اوستان”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “محافظة بغداد”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Baghdad Séng”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bagdad”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bagdad guvernement”
  • Norwegian: “Bagdad”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܓܕܐܕ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܓܕܕ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਗ਼ਦਾਦ ਪ੍ਰਾਂਤ”
  • Persian: “استان بغداد”
  • Polish: “Bagdad”
  • Portuguese: “Bagdá”
  • Portuguese: “Bagdad”
  • Portuguese: “Bagdade”
  • Portuguese: “Província de Bagdá”
  • Portuguese: “Província de Bagdad”
  • Portuguese: “Província de Bagdade”
  • Romanian: “Bagdad”
  • Russian: “Багдад (мухафаза)”
  • Russian: “Багдад”
  • Scots: “Baghdad Govrenorate”
  • Scots: “Baghdad Province”
  • Slovak: “Bagdad”
  • Slovenian: “Guvernat Bagdad”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بغداد اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Bagdad”
  • Spanish: “Gobernacion de Bagdad”
  • Spanish: “Gobernación de Bagdad”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Bagdad”
  • Swedish: “Bagdad”
  • Swedish: “Guvernementet Bagdad”
  • Tajik: “Vilojati Baƣdod”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Бағдод”
  • Tamil: “பாக்தாத் மாகாணம்”
  • Thai: “เขตผู้ว่าการแบกแดด”
  • Turkish: “Bağdat ili”
  • Turkish: “Bağdat”
  • Ukrainian: “Багдад”
  • Urdu: “محافظہ بغداد”
  • Venetian: “goernatorà de Baghdad”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Baghdad (gobernador)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Baghdad”
  • Western Armenian: “Պաղտատ”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴格达省”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴格達省”

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