Southern Iraq
Babil Governorate
Al-Musayab District

Hillah

Hillah is in . Hillah is the nearest city to the ruins of , which are 5 km north of the city. It is the capital of Babylon Province and has a population of about 456,000.
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  • Type: City with 1,730,000 residents
  • Description: city in Iraq
  • Also known as: “Al Hillah”, “Al Hillah - الحلّة”, “al-Ḥillah”, and “Hilla”

Hillah

Latitude
32.4822° or 32° 28′ 56″ north
Longitude
44.4328° or 44° 25′ 58″ east
Population
1,730,000
Elevation
33 metres (108 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IQ HIL
Open location code
8H46FCJM+V4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 248691069
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
99347
Wiki­data ID
Q243846
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Hillah” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الحلة”
  • Arabic: “الحلّة”
  • Arabic: “الحله”
  • Arabic: “بالحلة”
  • Arabic: “مدينة الحلة”
  • Armenian: “Ալ-Հիլլա”
  • Armenian: “Հիլլա”
  • Asturian: “Hillah”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hillə”
  • Basque: “Al-Hillah”
  • Basque: “Hillah”
  • Belarusian: “Хіла”
  • Bengali: “হিল্লাহ”
  • Bosnian: “Al Hillah”
  • Bulgarian: “Хила”
  • Catalan: “Al-Djamiayn”
  • Catalan: “Al-Hilla”
  • Catalan: “Al-Hillah”
  • Catalan: “Djamiyan”
  • Catalan: “Hilla”
  • Catalan: “Hillah”
  • Cebuano: “Al Ḩillah”
  • Central Kurdish: “حللە”
  • Central Kurdish: “حلە”
  • Chinese: “希拉”
  • Croatian: “Hila”
  • Czech: “Hilla”
  • Czech: “Hillah”
  • Danish: “Hilla”
  • Dutch: “Al Hilla”
  • Dutch: “Al Hillah”
  • Dutch: “Al-Hilla”
  • Dutch: “Al-Hillah”
  • Dutch: “El Hilla”
  • Dutch: “El Hillah”
  • Dutch: “El-Hilla”
  • Dutch: “El-Hillah”
  • Dutch: “Hilla”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الحله”
  • Esperanto: “Hilla”
  • Estonian: “Al Hillah”
  • Estonian: “Al-Hillah”
  • Estonian: “Al-Ḩillah”
  • Estonian: “Al-Ḥillah”
  • Estonian: “Hilla”
  • Finnish: “Al Hilla”
  • Finnish: “Al Hillah”
  • Finnish: “Al-Hilla”
  • Finnish: “Al-Hillah”
  • Finnish: “Al-Ḥillah”
  • Finnish: “Hilla”
  • Finnish: “Hillah”
  • French: “Al Hilla”
  • French: “Al-Hilla”
  • French: “Hilla”
  • French: “Hillah”
  • Galician: “Al-Hillah”
  • Georgian: “ჰილა”
  • German: “Al Hilla”
  • German: “Hilla”
  • Greek: “Χίλλα”
  • Gujarati: “હિલ્લાહ”
  • Hebrew: “אל הילה”
  • Hebrew: “אל-חלה”
  • Hebrew: “חילה”
  • Hindi: “हिल्ला”
  • Hindi: “हिल्लाह”
  • Hungarian: “Hilla”
  • Indonesian: “Al-Hillah,Iraq”
  • Indonesian: “Al-Hillah”
  • Irish: “Hillah”
  • Italian: “Al Hillah”
  • Italian: “al-Hilla”
  • Italian: “Al-Hilla”
  • Italian: “Hilla”
  • Italian: “Hillah”
  • Japanese: “ヒッラ”
  • Kannada: “ಹಿಲ್ಲಾ”
  • Korean: “힐라”
  • Kurdish: “Hille”
  • Latvian: “Hilla”
  • Lithuanian: “Hila”
  • Malay: “Al-Hillah”
  • Maori: “Hillah”
  • Marathi: “हिल्लाह”
  • Mazanderani: “حله”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰილა”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Al-Hilla”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hillah”
  • Norwegian: “Al-Hilla”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ࡄࡉࡋࡀ”
  • Persian: “حله”
  • Persian: “شهر حله”
  • Polish: “Al Hilla”
  • Polish: “Al-Hilla”
  • Polish: “Hilla”
  • Portuguese: “Al Hillah”
  • Portuguese: “Al-Hillah”
  • Portuguese: “Hila”
  • Pushto: “حله”
  • Romanian: “Al Hillah”
  • Russian: “Ал-Хилла”
  • Russian: “Аль-Хилла”
  • Russian: “Хилла”
  • Russian: “Хиллех”
  • Russian: “Хілла”
  • Russian: “Эль-Хилла”
  • Scots: “Al Hillah”
  • Serbian: “Хила”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hila”
  • Sinhala: “හිලා”
  • Slovenian: “Al Hila”
  • Slovenian: “Hila”
  • Spanish: “Al Hillah”
  • Spanish: “Al-Hilla”
  • Spanish: “Al-Hillah”
  • Spanish: “Hilla”
  • Swedish: “Al-Hilla”
  • Swedish: “Al-Hillah”
  • Swedish: “Hillah”
  • Tajik: “Ҳилла”
  • Tamil: “கில்லா”
  • Tatar: “Хиллә”
  • Telugu: “హిల్లా”
  • Thai: “อัลฮิลละฮ์”
  • Turkish: “El-Hille”
  • Turkish: “Hilla”
  • Ukrainian: “Хілла”
  • Urdu: “حلہ”
  • Venetian: “Al-Hilla”
  • Vietnamese: “Hillah”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hilla”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hillah”
  • Welsh: “Al Hillah”
  • Welsh: “Al-Hillah”
  • Western Panjabi: “حلہ”
  • “الحلة”

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