Joint Base Balad
Balad Air Base is an Iraqi Air Force base located near Balad in the Sunni Triangle 40 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq. Built in the early 1980s, it was originally named Al-Bakr Air Base.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport in Iraq
- Also known as: “Al-Bakr Air Base”, “Balad Air Base”, “Logistics Support Area”, “LSA Anaconda”, “ORBD”, “قاعدة البكر الجوية”, “バラード空軍基地”, “バラッド統合基地”, and “巴拉德空軍基地”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yathrib.
Joint Base Balad
- Categories: airport, military installation, and transport
- Location: Balad District, Salah ad Din Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodrome
OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=military
OpenStreetMap feature
military=airfield
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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”
- Japanese: “バラッド空軍基地”
- Persian: “پایگاه شکاری بلد”
- Polish: “Port lotniczy Al-Bakr”
- Swedish: “Balad Air Base”
- Tajik: “Пойгоҳи шикор балад”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Qaryat Albu Nasir and alhatamia.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Iraq Post Office and Ghanem Altimimi.
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