Baba Gurgur
Baba Gurgur is an oil field and gas flame near the city of Kirkuk, which was the first to be discovered in northern Iraq in 1927. It was considered the largest oil field in the world until the discovery of the Ghawar field in Saudi Arabia in 1948.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Chad.r.hill, Public domain.
- Type: Locality
- Description: oilfield in Iraq
- Also known as: “Bābā Gurgur”, “Bābā Kurkur”, and “Old Baba”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kirkuk.
Kirkuk
Photo: Leviclancy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kirkuk is a city in Northwestern Iraq. However, its population is ethnically mixed, and it is under the control of the Iraqi government.
Baba Gurgur
- Category: oil field
- Location: Kirkuk District, Kirkuk Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Baba Gurgur” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بابا كركر”
- Arabic: “باباكركر”
- Arabic: “نار أزلية”
- Arabic: “نار أزليه”
- Armenian: “Բաբա Գուրգուր”
- Central Kurdish: “بابە گوڕگوڕ”
- Central Kurdish: “بابەگوڕگوڕ”
- Czech: “Baba Gurgur”
- Dutch: “Baba Gurgur”
- Esperanto: “Baba Gurgur”
- French: “Baba Gurgur”
- Hebrew: “באבא גורגור”
- Japanese: “ババ・グルグル”
- Kurdish: “Babagurgur”
- Kurdish: “Babegurgur”
- Kurdish: “Babeguṟguṟ”
- Kurdish: “باباگورگور”
- Kurdish: “بابە گوڕگوڕ”
- Persian: “میدان بابا گورگور”
- Polish: “Baba Kurkur”
- Russian: “Баба-Гургур”
- Spanish: “Baba Gurgur”
- Swedish: “Babagorgor”
- Turkish: “Baba Gürgür”
- Ukrainian: “Баба-Гур-Гур”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Baba Gurgur”. Photo: Chad.r.hill, Public domain.