Southern Iraq
Babylon Governorate
Al-Mahawil District

Babylon

Babylon is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in , today only ruins; it was once one of the most prominent cities of Ancient Mesopotamia. Alexander the Great chose Babylon to be the capital of the great empire he had created, and died there while planning further conquests; for several centuries after that it was a major center of the Seleucid Empire founded by one of his generals.
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  • Type: Protected area
  • Description: capital city of Babylonia and an archaeological site in modern-day Iraq
  • Also known as: “Āthār Bābil” and “Aţlāl Bābil”
Photo: HerbertReichart germany, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ishtar Gate and Esagila.

City gate
Photo: rictor-and-david, CC BY 2.0.
The was the eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon. It was constructed c. 569 BC by order of King Nebuchadnezzar II on the north side of the city.

Archaeological site
The Ésagila or Esangil was a temple dedicated to Marduk, the protector god of Babylon. It lay south of the ziggurat .

Memorial
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
is a stone sculpture, over 2,600 years old, that was found in the ancient city of Babylon, . Its discovery was first documented in 1817 by Claudius Rich, although it may have been seen as early as 1790 by Joseph de Beauchamp.

Babylon

Latitude
32.5453° or 32° 32′ 43″ north
Longitude
44.4299° or 44° 25′ 48″ east
Population
150,000
Elevation
37 metres (121 feet)
Open location code
8H46GCWH+4X
Open­Street­Map ID
way 961272499
Geo­Names ID
98228
Wiki­data ID
Q5684
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Babylon” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Babilon”
  • Albanian: “Babiloni”
  • Amharic: “ባቢሎን”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Βαβυλών”
  • Arabic: “بابل”
  • Arabic: “𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠”
  • Armenian: “Բաբելոն”
  • Asturian: “Babilonia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Babil”
  • Bashkir: “Бәбел”
  • Bashkir: “Вавилон”
  • Basque: “Babilonia”
  • Belarusian: “Бабілён”
  • Belarusian: “Вавілон”
  • Belarusian: “Горад Вавілон”
  • Bengali: “ব্যাবিলন”
  • Bosnian: “Babilon”
  • Breton: “Babilon”
  • Bulgarian: “Вавилон”
  • Burmese: “ဘေဘီလုံ”
  • Catalan: “Babilim”
  • Catalan: “Babiló”
  • Central Kurdish: “بابل”
  • Chechen: “Бабил”
  • Chinese: “Pa-pí-lûn”
  • Chinese: “巴比伦”
  • Chinese: “巴比倫”
  • Church Slavic: “Вавѷлѡнъ”
  • Chuvash: “Вавилон”
  • Croatian: “Babilon”
  • Czech: “Babylón”
  • Danish: “Babylon”
  • Dutch: “Babel”
  • Dutch: “Babylon”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بابل”
  • Esperanto: “Babilono”
  • Estonian: “Babülon”
  • Estonian: “Paabel”
  • Fijian: “Na Matanitu ki Papiloni”
  • Finnish: “Baabel”
  • Finnish: “Babylon”
  • French: “Babylone”
  • French: “Etat de Babylone”
  • Galician: “Babel”
  • Galician: “Babilonia”
  • Georgian: “ბაბილონი”
  • German: “Babel”
  • German: “Babylon”
  • Greek: “Βαβυλώνα”
  • Gujarati: “બેબીલોન”
  • Hebrew: “בבל”
  • Hebrew: “ששך”
  • Hindi: “बाबिल”
  • Hungarian: “Babilon”
  • Hungarian: “Babilón”
  • Hungarian: “Babülón”
  • Icelandic: “Babýlon”
  • Ido: “Babilonia”
  • Ido: “Babilono”
  • Indonesian: “Babilon”
  • Indonesian: “Babilonia”
  • Indonesian: “Babylon”
  • Irish: “an Bhablóin”
  • Irish: “An Bhablóin”
  • Italian: “Babele”
  • Italian: “Bābil”
  • Italian: “Babilonia”
  • Japanese: “バビロン”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ಯಾಬಿಲೋನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Бабыл”
  • Kazakh: “Вавилон”
  • Kirghiz: “Вавилон”
  • Korean: “바빌론”
  • Kurdish: “Babîl”
  • Ladin: “Babilonia”
  • Latin: “Babylon”
  • Latvian: “Bābele”
  • Latvian: “Babilona”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Babilon”
  • Literary Chinese: “巴比倫”
  • Lithuanian: “Babilonas”
  • Low German: “Babel”
  • Low German: “Babylon”
  • Macedonian: “Вавилон”
  • Malagasy: “Babilona”
  • Malagasy: “Babilôna”
  • Malay: “Babylon”
  • Malayalam: “ബാബിലോണിയ”
  • Maltese: “Babel”
  • Maltese: “Babilonja”
  • Maori: “Papurona”
  • Marathi: “बॅबिलोन”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Bă-bī-lùng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pa-pí-lûn”
  • Mingrelian: “ბაბილონი”
  • Narom: “Babylone”
  • Nepali: “बेबिलोन”
  • Newari: “बेबिलोन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Babylon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Babylon”
  • Norwegian: “Babylon”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Babilònia”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܒܠ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ࡁࡀࡁࡉࡋ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Babilōn”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਬਲ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੇਬੀਲੋਨ”
  • Persian: “بابل”
  • Polish: “Babilon”
  • Portuguese: “Babilónia”
  • Portuguese: “Babilônia”
  • Pushto: “بابل”
  • Quechua: “Babilun”
  • Quechua: “Papilun”
  • Romanian: “Babilon”
  • Russian: “Вавилон”
  • Samoan: “Le Malo o Papelonia”
  • Scots: “Babylon”
  • Serbian: “Вавилон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Babilon”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Вавилон”
  • Sindhi: “بابل”
  • Slovak: “Babylon”
  • Slovak: “Babylónia”
  • Slovenian: “Babilon”
  • Slovenian: “Babilonija”
  • Somali: “Baabiyloon”
  • Spanish: “Babilonia”
  • Swahili: “Babeli”
  • Swedish: “Babylon”
  • Tagalog: “Babilonya”
  • Tajik: “Бобил”
  • Tamil: “பாபிலோன்”
  • Tamil: “பாபேல்”
  • Tatar: “Babil”
  • Tatar: “Vavilon”
  • Telugu: “బాబిలోన్”
  • Thai: “Babylon”
  • Thai: “บาบิโลน”
  • Turkish: “Babil”
  • Ukrainian: “Вавилон”
  • Ukrainian: “Вавілон”
  • Urdu: “بابل”
  • Uzbek: “Bobil”
  • Venetian: “Babiłònia”
  • Vietnamese: “Babylon”
  • Võro: “Paabõl”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Babilonia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Babylon”
  • Welsh: “Babilon”
  • Western Armenian: “Բաբելոն”
  • Western Panjabi: “بابل”
  • Wolof: “Babilon”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴比伦”
  • Yakut: “Баабыл”
  • Yiddish: “בבל”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴比倫”
  • “Paabõl”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Babylon”. Photo: Edwin Long, Public domain.