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.
Chad.r.hill, Public domain.- Locality
- …lies at an elevation of around 350 metres (1,150 feet)
- Description: oilfield in Iraq
- Also known as“Bābā Kurkur”“Old Baba”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kirkuk.
Baba Gurgur
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Latitude
35.53355° or 35° 32′ 1″ north
Longitude
44.35373° or 44° 21′ 13″ east
Open location code
8H76G9M3+CF
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Baba Gurgur” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بابا كركر”
- Arabic: “نار أزلية”
- Arabic: “نار أزليه”
- Armenian: “Բաբա Գուրգուր”
- Central Kurdish: “بابە گوڕگوڕ”
- 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: “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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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Babagurgur and Old Baba.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Jabal Saibah and Jabal Qashqah.
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