Sadr City

Sadr City, formerly known as Al-Thawra and Saddam City, is a suburb district of the city of , . It was built in 1959 by Prime Minister Abdul Karim Qassim and named Al-Rafidain District.
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  • Type: Suburb with 1,210,000 residents
  • Description: suburb district of the city of Baghdad, Iraq
  • Also known as: “Al-Thawra”, “Ḩayy ath Thawrah, حي الثورة, Hayy ath Thawrah, حي الثورة”, “Madinat aṣ-Ṣadr”, “Saddam City”, “Sadr”, and “حي الثورة”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Al-Madina International Stadium and Al-Shaheed Monument.

Stadium
is a football in , . It is Iraq's first-ever stadium solar power plant, and the second in the of its kind.

, also known as the Martyr's Memorial, is a monument designed by Iraqi sculptor Ismail Fatah al-Turk and situated in the capital, . is situated 5 km south of Sadr City.

Stadium
is a multi-use in , . It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Al-Sinaa SC. The stadium holds up to 6,000 people. is situated 5 km south of Sadr City.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saba Abkar and Ur.

Neighborhood
is an area, north of , , located on the eastern bank of , just outside of Adhamiya. is situated 9 km west of Sadr City.

Neighborhood
Hayy is a neighborhood in northeastern , , near Sadr city. In 2003, the United Nations Development Programme reported that almost every residence housing at least two families in Hayy included a widow. is situated 6 km west of Sadr City.

Suburb
Sha'ab is a neighborhood of district, , , It is subdivided into Sha'ab east, Sha'ab south, Sha'ab north. The neighborhood is almost entirely Shia Muslim especially after the Shia militias takeover of the town in 2006 led by Mahdi Army known as the JAM which committed mass murders against Sunni families in order to create a Shia zone region in Baghdad. is situated 6 km northwest of Sadr City.

Sadr City

Latitude
33.3906° or 33° 23′ 26″ north
Longitude
44.4571° or 44° 27′ 25″ east
Population
1,210,000
Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)
Open location code
8H569FR4+6R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2486307716
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
7802746
Wiki­data ID
Q1017715
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Satellite Map

Discover Sadr City from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Sadr City” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “المدينة”
  • Arabic: “مدينة الثورة”
  • Arabic: “مدينة الصدر”
  • Arabic: “مدينة صدام”
  • Catalan: “Sadr City”
  • Central Kurdish: “شاری سەدر”
  • Chinese: “萨德尔城”
  • Chinese: “薩德爾城”
  • Czech: “Sadr City”
  • Danish: “Sadr City”
  • Dutch: “Sadr City”
  • Dutch: “Sadr Stad”
  • Dutch: “Sadr-Stad”
  • Finnish: “Madinat al-Sadr”
  • Finnish: “Saddam City”
  • Finnish: “Sadr City”
  • Finnish: “Sadrin kaupunki”
  • French: “Hayy ath Thawrah”
  • French: “Sadr City”
  • German: “Hayy ath Thawrah”
  • German: “Madina al-Thaura”
  • German: “Revolution City”
  • German: “Saddam City”
  • German: “Sadr City”
  • Hebrew: “מדינת א-סדר”
  • Hebrew: “צאדר סיטי”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Sadr”
  • Indonesian: “Sadr City”
  • Italian: “Sadr City”
  • Japanese: “サドル・シティ”
  • Korean: “사드르시티”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sadr by”
  • Persian: “شهرک صدر”
  • Polish: “As-Saura”
  • Romanian: “Sadr City”
  • Russian: “Мадинат-эс-Садр”
  • Russian: “Садр-Сити”
  • Slovenian: “Sadr City”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Sáder”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Sadr”
  • Spanish: “Madinat aṣ-Ṣadr”
  • Spanish: “Sadr City”
  • Swedish: “Madīnat as-Sadr”
  • Swedish: “Saddam City”
  • Swedish: “Sadr City”
  • Swedish: “Sadr-staden”
  • Swedish: “Sadrstaden”
  • Turkish: “Sadr Şehri”
  • Urdu: “صدر سٹی”
  • Uzbek: “Sadr Siti”

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Localities in the Area

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