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Baghdad

Baghdad is the capital and largest city of , with an estimated population of 6-7 million. Once one of the greatest centres of learning and culture in the world, Baghdad was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate during the Islamic Golden Age.
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  • Type: City with 7,220,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Iraq
  • Also known as: “Bagdad” and “Baghdād”
Photo: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Embassy of the United States and Grand Festivities Square.

Government office
The of America in Baghdad is the diplomatic mission of the United States of America in the . Chargé d'affaires ad interim Joshua Harris is currently the chief of mission.

Square
Great Celebrations square is the main square for public celebrations in Baghdad, Iraq. It includes a for the heads of the state. It's located in the center of the Parade avenue, and it holds three important public monuments created by leading mid-20th century sculptors.

Monument
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The , officially known as the Swords of Qādisīyah, and popularly called the Hands of Victory or the Crossed Swords, are a pair of triumphal arches in central Baghdad, Iraq.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include International Zone of Baghdad and Mansour district.

Neighborhood
The Green Zone, formally Karradat Mariam, is a 10-square-kilometer area in the of central Baghdad, . It is the seat of the government of Iraq, home to government offices, ministries, state institutions, diplomatic missions, and palaces.

Quarter
Al-Mansour or just Mansour is one of the nine administrative districts in Baghdad, . It is in western Baghdad and is bounded on the east by district in central Baghdad, to the north by , to the west by , and to the south by Baghdad Airport Road, on the other side of which is al-Rashid district.

Suburb
Photo: Ali hassan 28, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a neighborhood in Baghdad, . It is situated along the Tigris River and shares a significant but comparatively smaller part of the peninsula with the neighboring district.

Baghdad

Latitude
33.3062° or 33° 18′ 22″ north
Longitude
44.3872° or 44° 23′ 14″ east
Population
7,220,000
Elevation
41 metres (135 feet)
IATA airport code
BGW
United Nations Location Code
IQ BGW
Open location code
8H56894P+FV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21034458
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
98182
Wiki­data ID
Q1530
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Baghdad” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Baghdad”
  • Adyghe: “Багдад”
  • Afrikaans: “Bagdad”
  • Albanian: “Bagdadi”
  • Algerian Arabic: “بغداد”
  • Amharic: “ባግዳድ”
  • Arabic: “بغداد (مدينة)”
  • Arabic: “بغداد الرشيد”
  • Arabic: “بغداد”
  • Arabic: “مدينة السلام”
  • Aragonese: “Bagdad”
  • Armenian: “Բաղդադ”
  • Arpitan: “Bagdad”
  • Assamese: “বাগদাদ”
  • Asturian: “Bagdad”
  • Asturian: “Bagdag”
  • Avaric: “Багъдад”
  • Awadhi: “बगदाद”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bağdad”
  • Balinese: “Baghdad”
  • Bambara: “Baghdad”
  • Bashkir: “Бағдад”
  • Basque: “Bagdad”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Baghdad”
  • Belarusian: “Багдад”
  • Bengali: “বাগদাদ”
  • Betawi: “Bagdad”
  • Bosnian: “Bagdad”
  • Breton: “Baghdad”
  • Bulgarian: “Багдад”
  • Burmese: “ဘဂ္ဂဒက်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Bagdad”
  • Cebuano: “Baghdad”
  • Central Bikol: “Baghdad”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەغدا”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەغداد”
  • Central Kurdish: “پایتەختی عێراق”
  • Central Kurdish: “شاری بەغدا”
  • Chechen: “БагӀдад”
  • Chinese: “Baghdad”
  • Chinese: “巴格达”
  • Chinese: “巴格達/巴格达”
  • Chinese: “巴格達”
  • Chinese: “报达”
  • Chuvash: “Пахтат”
  • Cornish: “Baldak”
  • Corsican: “Baghdad”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Bağdad”
  • Croatian: “Bagdad”
  • Czech: “Bagdád”
  • Danish: “Bagdad”
  • Dhivehi: “ބަޣުދާދު”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Beğdad”
  • Dotyali: “बगदाद”
  • Dutch: “Bagdad”
  • Eastern Mari: “Багдад”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بغداد”
  • Erzya: “Багдад ош”
  • Esperanto: “Bagdado”
  • Estonian: “Bagdad”
  • Extremaduran: “Bagdad”
  • Faroese: “Bagdad”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Baghdad”
  • Finnish: “Bagdad”
  • French: “Bagdad”
  • Galician: “Bagdad”
  • Georgian: “ბაღდადი”
  • German: “Bagdad”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Baghdad”
  • Gilaki: “بغداد”
  • Greek: “Βαγδάτη”
  • Guarani: “Bagdad”
  • Gujarati: “બગદાદ”
  • Haitian: “Bagdad”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Baghdad”
  • Hausa: “Bagdaza”
  • Hebrew: “בגדאד”
  • Hebrew: “בגדד”
  • Hindi: “बगदाद”
  • Hindi: “बग़दाद”
  • Hungarian: “Bagdad”
  • Hungarian: “Baghdad”
  • Icelandic: “Bagdad”
  • Icelandic: “Bagdað”
  • Ido: “Bagdad”
  • Iloko: “Baghdad”
  • Inari Sami: “Bagdad”
  • Indonesian: “Bagdad”
  • Indonesian: “Baghdad”
  • Ingush: “БагIдад”
  • Ingush: “БагӀдад”
  • Interlingua: “Bagdad”
  • Interlingue: “Bagdad”
  • Irish: “Bagdad”
  • Italian: “Bagdad”
  • Italian: “Baghdad”
  • Japanese: “バグダード”
  • Japanese: “バグダッド”
  • Javanese: “Bagdad”
  • Kabardian: “Багдад”
  • Kabiyè: “Pagidaadɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Beɣdad”
  • Kalaallisut: “Baghdad”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾಗ್ದಾದ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Bag’dad”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Baǵdad”
  • Kashmiri: “بَغداد”
  • Kazakh: “Багдад”
  • Kazakh: “Бағдад”
  • Kazakh: “Бағдат”
  • Kikuyu: “Baghdad”
  • Kirghiz: “Багдад”
  • Komering: “Baghdad”
  • Korean: “바그다드”
  • Kurdish: “Beghdad”
  • Kurdish: “Bexda”
  • Kurdish: “بەغداد”
  • Ladino: “Bagdad”
  • Latin: “Bagdatum”
  • Latvian: “Bagdāde”
  • Lezghian: “Багъдад”
  • Ligurian: “Baghdad”
  • Limburgan: “Bagdad”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Baghdad”
  • Literary Chinese: “白葛達”
  • Lithuanian: “Bagdadas”
  • Livvi: “Bagdad”
  • Lojban: “bagdad”
  • Lombard: “Baghdad”
  • Low German: “Bagdad”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bagdad”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Bagdad”
  • Macedonian: “Багдад”
  • Maithili: “बगदाद”
  • Malagasy: “Bagdad”
  • Malagasy: “Baghdad”
  • Malay: “Baghdad”
  • Malay: “بغداد”
  • Malayalam: “ബാഗ്ദാദ്”
  • Maltese: “Bagdad”
  • Maltese: “Baghdad”
  • Maori: “Baghdad”
  • Maori: “Pakatata”
  • Maori: “Pākatata”
  • Marathi: “बगदाद”
  • Mazanderani: “بخداد”
  • Mazanderani: “بغداد”
  • Mazanderani: “بقداتی”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “بغداد”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “مدينة بغداد”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Baghdad”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Baghdad”
  • Minangkabau: “Bagdad”
  • Mingrelian: “ბაღდადი”
  • Mirandese: “Bagdade”
  • Moksha: “Багдад”
  • Mongolian: “Багдад”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بغداد”
  • Mossi: “Bagdad”
  • Mossi: “Baghdad”
  • Nauru: “Baghdad”
  • Navajo: “Názlíní Hatsoh (Ásáí Dineʼé Bikéyah)”
  • Navajo: “Názlíní Hatsoh”
  • Neapolitan: “Bagdad”
  • Nepali: “बगदाद”
  • Newari: “बग्दाद”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bagdad”
  • Northern Luri: “بغداد”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bagdad”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bagdad”
  • Norwegian: “Bagdad”
  • Novial: “Bagdad”
  • Nyanja: “Baghdad”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bagdad”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܓܕܐܕ”
  • Oriya: “ବାଗଦାଦ”
  • Ossetian: “Багдад”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਗਦਾਦ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਗ਼ਦਾਦ”
  • Papiamento: “Bagdad”
  • Persian: “بغداد”
  • Picard: “Bagdad”
  • Piemontese: “Baghdad”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Baagdad”
  • Polish: “Bagdad”
  • Portuguese: “Bagdá”
  • Portuguese: “Bagdad”
  • Portuguese: “Bagdade”
  • Portuguese: “Baguedade”
  • Pushto: “بغداد”
  • Quechua: “Bagdad”
  • Romanian: “Bagdad”
  • Russia Buriat: “Багдад”
  • Russian: “Багдад”
  • Rusyn: “Баґдад”
  • Samogitian: “Bagdads”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱟᱜᱽᱫᱟᱫᱽ”
  • Saraiki: “بغداد”
  • Sardinian: “Bagdad”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Bagdad”
  • Scots: “Baghdad”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Baghdad”
  • Serbian: “Багдад”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bagdad”
  • Shona: “Baghdad”
  • Sicilian: “Baghdad”
  • Silesian: “Bagdad”
  • Sindhi: “بغداد”
  • Sinhala: “බැග්ඩැඩ්”
  • Sinhala: “බැග්ඩෑඩය”
  • Sinhala: “බැග්ඩෑඩ්”
  • Slovak: “Bagdad”
  • Slovenian: “Bagdad”
  • Somali: “Baqdaad”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بغداد”
  • Spanish: “Bagdad”
  • Swahili: “Baghdad”
  • Swedish: “Bagdad”
  • Swiss German: “Bagdad”
  • Tachelhit: “Bɣdad”
  • Tagalog: “Baghdad”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Baghdad”
  • Tajik: “Бағдод”
  • Talysh: “Bağdad”
  • Talysh: “Baǧdad”
  • Tamil: “பகுதாது”
  • Tamil: “பக்தாத்”
  • Tamil: “பாக்தாத்”
  • Tatar: “Багдад”
  • Tatar: “Бәгъдат”
  • Telugu: “బాగ్దాద్”
  • Thai: “แบกแดด”
  • Tibetan: “པ་ག་ཏ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Bagdad”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Bagdad”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Bagdad”
  • Tumbuka: “Baghdad”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “بغداد”
  • Turkish: “Bağdat”
  • Turkmen: “Bagdat”
  • Twi: “Bagdad”
  • Twi: “Baghdad”
  • Udmurt: “Багдад”
  • Uighur: “باغداد”
  • Ukrainian: “Багдад”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bagdad”
  • Urdu: “بغداد”
  • Uzbek: “Bagʻdod”
  • Venetian: “Bagdad”
  • Veps: “Bagdad”
  • Vietnamese: “Bagdad”
  • Vietnamese: “Baghdad”
  • Volapük: “Bagdad”
  • Võro: “Bagdad”
  • Walloon: “Bagdad”
  • Walloon: “Bagdet”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Baghdad”
  • Welsh: “Baghdad”
  • Western Armenian: “Պաղտատ”
  • Western Frisian: “Bagdad”
  • Western Panjabi: “بغداد”
  • Wolof: “Bagdad”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴格达”
  • Yakut: “Багдад”
  • Yiddish: “באגדאד”
  • Yoruba: “Baghdad”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴格達”
  • Zeeuws: “Bagdad”
  • Zulu: “i-Baghdad”
  • “Bagdad”
  • “Bagdād”
  • “Bagdads”
  • “Baghdad”
  • “ma tomo Paketa”

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