Joint Base Balad

Balad Air Base is an Iraqi Air Force base located near in the Sunni Triangle 40 miles north of , . Built in the early 1980s, it was originally named Al-Bakr Air Base.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: airport in Iraq
  • Also known as: “Al-Bakr Air Base”, “Balad Air Base”, “Logistics Support Area”, “LSA Anaconda”, “ORBD”, and “قاعدة البكر الجوية”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yathrib.

Town
, also transliterated Yethrib, is a city in the Salah ad Din Governorate, , 45 kilometres north of the national capital, . It is in the so-called Sunni Triangle.

Joint Base Balad

Latitude
33.94097° or 33° 56′ 28″ north
Longitude
44.3654° or 44° 21′ 55″ east
Elevation
51 metres (167 feet)
Operator
Iraqi Air Force
ICAO airport code
ORBD
Open location code
8H56W9R8+95
Open­Street­Map ID
way 82693406
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­military
Open­Street­Map feature
military=­airfield
Geo­Names ID
8520855
Wiki­data ID
Q1529746
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Tajik—“Joint Base Balad” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “قاعدة البكر الجوية‎”
  • Arabic: “قاعدة بلد الجوية”
  • Cebuano: “Balad Air Base”
  • Chinese: “巴拉德空軍基地”
  • Chinese: “巴拉德美军空军基地”
  • Chinese: “巴拉德美軍空軍基地”
  • Chinese: “巴拉德聯合基地”
  • Dutch: “Balad Air Base”
  • French: “Balad Air Base”
  • German: “Balad Air Base”
  • Indonesian: “ORBD”
  • Japanese: “バラード空軍基地”
  • Japanese: “バラッド空軍基地”
  • Japanese: “バラッド統合基地”
  • Persian: “پایگاه شکاری بلد”
  • Polish: “Port lotniczy Al-Bakr”
  • Swedish: “Balad Air Base”
  • Tajik: “Пойгоҳи шикор балад”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Qaryat Albu Nasir and alhatamia.

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