Baqubah
Baqubah is the capital of the Diyala Governorate of Iraq. The city is located some 50 km to the northeast of Baghdad, on the Diyala River. In 2003 it had an estimated population of some 280,000 people.Photo: MUSTAFA JASSEM, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Al Jazeera English, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: City with 269,000 residents
- 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”, “Baqouba”, “Baquba”, “Baqubah - بعقوبة”, and “Baqubeh”
Baqubah
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Al-Miqdadiya District, Diyala Governorate, Baghdad Belts, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.7447° or 33° 44′ 41″ northLongitude
44.6328° or 44° 37′ 58″ eastPopulation
269,000Elevation
48 metres (157 feet)IATA airport code
XQVOpen location code
8H56PJVM+V4OpenStreetMap ID
node 248701647OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Baqubah” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بعقوبا”
- Arabic: “بعقوبة”
- Arabic: “بعقوبه”
- 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”
- 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: “Baquba”
- 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”
- Indonesian: “Baquba”
- Irish: “Baqubah”
- Italian: “Ba’quba”
- Italian: “Baquba”
- 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”
- 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: “Baquba”
- 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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