Baqubah

Baqubah is the capital of the of Iraq. The city is located some 50 km to the northeast of , on the . In 2025 the population of the Baqubah metro area reached 377,000.
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  • City with 269,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 48 metres (157 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code XQV
  • Description: capital of Iraq’s Diyala Governorate
  • Also known as
    “Ba’qūba”
    “Ba‘qūbah - بعقوبة, Baqūbah, Baqūba, Bakuba, Baquba, Baqubeh, بعقوبة, Baqubah, Baquba, Bakuba, Baquba, Baqubeh, بعقوبة”
    “Bagdad”
    “Baqouba”
    “Baqubah - بعقوبة”
    “Baqubeh”

Baqubah

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Latitude
33.7447° or 33° 44′ 41″ north
Longitude
44.6328° or 44° 37′ 58″ east
Open location code
8H56PJVM+V4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 248701647
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
97990
Wiki­data ID
Q270821

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Baqubah” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بعقوبة”
  • Arabic: “بغداد”
  • Armenian: “Բակուբա”
  • Armenian: “Բաքուբա”
  • Asturian: “Baqubah”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bəkubə”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bааkubа”
  • Basque: “Baquba”
  • Belarusian: “Баакуба”
  • Bengali: “বাকুবাহ”
  • Bulgarian: “Бакуба”
  • Catalan: “Bakuba”
  • Catalan: “Baquba”
  • Catalan: “Baqubah”
  • Cebuano: “Baqubah”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەعقووبە”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەغداد”
  • Chinese: “巴古拜”
  • Classical Syriac: “ܒܰܩܽܘܒܰܐ”
  • Croatian: “Bakuba”
  • Czech: “Bakúba”
  • Czech: “Bákubá”
  • Danish: “Baquba”
  • Danish: “Baqubah”
  • Dutch: “Baquba”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بعقوبه”
  • Esperanto: “Bakuba”
  • Estonian: “Ba‘qūbah”
  • Estonian: “Baqubah”
  • Finnish: “Baquba”
  • French: “Bakouba”
  • Georgian: “ბააქუბა”
  • German: “Bakuba”
  • German: “Baquba”
  • Greek: “Μπακούμπα”
  • Gujarati: “બાક્બાહ”
  • Hebrew: “בעקובה”
  • Hindi: “बक़ुबाह”
  • Hindi: “बाकूबाह”
  • Hungarian: “Baakúba”
  • Indonesian: “Ba’qubah”
  • Irish: “Baqubah”
  • Italian: “Ba’quba”
  • Italian: “Baqubah”
  • Italian: “Baʿqūba”
  • Japanese: “バアクーバ”
  • Japanese: “バクバ”
  • Kannada: “ಬಕೂಬ”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾಕ್ಬಾಹ್”
  • Kazakh: “Baakwba qalası”
  • Kazakh: “Баакуба қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Баакуба”
  • Kazakh: “بااكۋبا قالاسى”
  • Korean: “바쿠바”
  • Kurdish: “Baqûba”
  • Kurdish: “بەغداد”
  • Latvian: “Bakuba”
  • Lithuanian: “Bakuba”
  • Macedonian: “Бакуба”
  • Malay: “Baqubah”
  • Maori: “Baqubah”
  • Maori: “Pakupa”
  • Marathi: “बाक्बाह”
  • Mazanderani: “بعقوبه”
  • Mingrelian: “ბააქუბა”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Baquba”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Baquba”
  • Norwegian: “Baquba”
  • Persian: “بعقوبه”
  • Polish: “Bakuba”
  • Portuguese: “Baquba”
  • Romanian: “Baquba”
  • Russian: “Баакуба”
  • Scots: “Baqubah”
  • Scots: “بعقوبة”
  • Serbian: “Бакуба”
  • Sinhala: “බකුබා”
  • Slovenian: “Bakuba”
  • Spanish: “Baquba”
  • Swedish: “Ba’quba”
  • Swedish: “Baquba”
  • Swedish: “Baqubah”
  • Tagalog: “Ba’quba”
  • Tagalog: “Ba‘qūbah”
  • Tagalog: “Ba’qubah”
  • Tagalog: “Baaquba”
  • Tagalog: “Bakuba”
  • Tagalog: “Bakubah”
  • Tagalog: “Baqouba”
  • Tagalog: “Baqubah”
  • Tamil: “பாகுபஹ்”
  • Tatar: “Бәкубә”
  • Telugu: “బాకూబా”
  • Thai: “บะอ์กูบะฮ์”
  • Turkish: “Bakuba”
  • Turkish: “Bakube”
  • Ukrainian: “Баакуба”
  • Ukrainian: “Бакуба”
  • Urdu: “بعقوبہ”
  • Urdu: “بقوبہ”
  • Venetian: “Ba’quba”
  • Vietnamese: “Baqubah”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Baqubah”
  • Western Armenian: “Պաաքուպա”
  • Western Panjabi: “بقوبہ”

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