Al-Qāsim
Al-Qasim, formerly known as "Sura" in Aramaic, is a city in Babil Governorate, Iraq. It is located 115 kilometres south of Baghdad.- Type: City with 158,000 residents
- Description: human settlement in Iraq
- Also known as: “Al Qasim”, “Al Qāsim”, “Al Qāsim, Imam Qasim, Nāḩiyat al Qāsim, Qāsim, القاسم, ناحية القاسم, Al Qasim, Imam Qasim, Nahiyat al Qasim, Qasim, القاسم, ناحية القاسم”, “Al-Qasim”, “Al-Qasim, Iraq”, “Al-Qassim”, “Imam Qasim”, “Nāḩiyat al Qāsim”, “Qāsim”, and “Sura”
Al-Qāsim
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Hashimiya District, Babil Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.298° or 32° 17′ 53″ north
Longitude
44.6828° or 44° 40′ 58″ east
Population
158,000
Elevation
30 metres (98 feet)
Open location code
8H467MXM+54
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Al-Qāsim” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “القاسم”
- Arabic: “ناحية القاسم”
- Armenian: “Ալ-Քասիմ”
- Cebuano: “Imam Qasim”
- Dutch: “Al-Qassim”
- Dutch: “Imam Qasim”
- Egyptian Arabic: “القاسم”
- French: “Al-Qassim”
- German: “Al-Qassim”
- Hindi: “कासिम”
- Irish: “Al-Qassim”
- Korean: “알카심”
- Persian: “القاسم”
- Polish: “Al-Kasim”
- Russian: “Аль-Касим”
- Russian: “Эль-Касим”
- Spanish: “Alkásim”
- Swedish: “Al-Qasim, Irak”
- Swedish: “al-Qasim”
- Urdu: “ناحیۃ القاسم”
- Uzbek: “Al-Qosim”
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