Southern Iraq
Karbala Governorate
Kerbala District

Karbala

Karbala is a major city in central Iraq. It is the capital of . With an estimated population of 691,100 people in 2024, Karbala is the second largest city in central Iraq, after .
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  • Type: City with 1,220,000 residents
  • Description: city in Karbala Governorate, Iraq
  • Also known as: “al-Ghadiriya”, “Kerbela”, “Meshed Hussain”, “Meshed Hussein”, “Nainawa”, and “Shathi’ul-Furat”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Imam Husayn Shrine and Al-Abbas’s threshold.

Mosque
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The Imam al Husayn Shrine is the mausoleum of Husayn ibn Ali and Shi'ite , located in the holy city of Karbala, in the of .

Mosque
Photo: Sameralhusseini1987, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Al-Abbas Shrine is the mausoleum of Abbas ibn Ali and a Shi'ite , situated near the Imam Husayn shrine, located in Karbala, in the of .

Karbala

Latitude
32.5984° or 32° 35′ 54″ north
Longitude
44.0158° or 44° 0′ 57″ east
Population
1,220,000
Elevation
32 metres (105 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IQ KAR
Open location code
8H46H2X8+98
Open­Street­Map ID
node 12754635751
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
94824
Wiki­data ID
Q199909
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Karbala” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Qerbelaja”
  • Arabic: “الطف”
  • Arabic: “الغاضرية”
  • Arabic: “كربلا”
  • Arabic: “كربلاء المقدسة”
  • Arabic: “كربلاء”
  • Armenian: “Քարբալա”
  • Armenian: “Քերբելա”
  • Asturian: “Karbala”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kərbəla”
  • Bashkir: “Кәрбәлә”
  • Basque: “Karbala”
  • Basque: “Kerbala”
  • Belarusian: “Кербела”
  • Bengali: “কারবালা”
  • Breton: “Karbala”
  • Bulgarian: “Карбала”
  • Bulgarian: “Кербала”
  • Burmese: “ကရ်ဘလာ”
  • Catalan: “Karbala”
  • Cebuano: “Karbala”
  • Central Kurdish: “کەربەلا”
  • Chinese: “卡尔巴拉”
  • Chinese: “卡爾巴拉”
  • Croatian: “Karbala”
  • Czech: “Karbalá”
  • Danish: “Karbala”
  • Danish: “Kerbala”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kerbela”
  • Dutch: “Karbala”
  • Dutch: “Kerbala”
  • Dutch: “Kerbela”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كربلاء”
  • Esperanto: “Karbala”
  • Esperanto: “Karbalo”
  • Esperanto: “Kerbala”
  • Esperanto: “Kerbela”
  • Estonian: “Karbalā’”
  • Estonian: “Karbala”
  • Estonian: “Kerbela”
  • Finnish: “Karbalā‘”
  • Finnish: “Karbala”
  • Finnish: “Kerbela”
  • French: “Karbala”
  • French: “Kerbala”
  • French: “Kerbela”
  • Georgian: “ქარბალა”
  • German: “Karbala”
  • German: “Kerbala”
  • German: “Kerbela”
  • Greek: “Καρμπάλα”
  • Greek: “Κερμπάλα”
  • Gujarati: “કરબલા”
  • Hausa: “Karbala”
  • Hebrew: “כרבאלא”
  • Hebrew: “כרבלא”
  • Hebrew: “כרבלה”
  • Hindi: “करबला”
  • Hindi: “कर्बला”
  • Hungarian: “Kerbela”
  • Indonesian: “Karbala”
  • Irish: “Karbala”
  • Italian: “Karbala”
  • Italian: “Kerbala”
  • Italian: “Kerbela”
  • Japanese: “カルバラ”
  • Japanese: “カルバラー”
  • Javanese: “Karbala”
  • Kannada: “ಕರ್ಬಲಾ”
  • Kashmiri: “کربلا”
  • Kazakh: “Карбала”
  • Kazakh: “Кербела”
  • Kirghiz: “Кербела”
  • Korean: “카르발라”
  • Kurdish: “Kerbela”
  • Latvian: “Kerbela”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Carbala”
  • Lithuanian: “Kerbela”
  • Lombard: “Karbala”
  • Malay: “Karbala”
  • Malayalam: “കർബല”
  • Marathi: “करबला”
  • Marathi: “करबळा”
  • Mazanderani: “کربلا”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “كربلا”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “كربلاء المقدسة”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “كربلاء”
  • Mingrelian: “ქარბალა”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Karbala”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Karbola”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karbala”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kerbala”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kerbela”
  • Norwegian: “Karbala”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਰਬਲਾ”
  • Persian: “کربلا”
  • Persian: “کربلای معلا”
  • Persian: “کربلای معلی”
  • Polish: “Karbala”
  • Polish: “Kerbela”
  • Portuguese: “Carbala”
  • Portuguese: “Karbala”
  • Portuguese: “Querbala”
  • Portuguese: “Querbela”
  • Pushto: “کربلا”
  • Romanian: “Karbala”
  • Romanian: “Kerbala”
  • Russian: “Карбала”
  • Russian: “Кербела”
  • Scots: “Karbala”
  • Serbian: “Karbala”
  • Serbian: “Карбала”
  • Serbian: “Кербала”
  • Serbian: “كربلاء”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Karbala”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kerbela”
  • Sicilian: “Kerbala”
  • Sindhi: “ڪربلا”
  • Sinhala: “කර්බලා”
  • Slovenian: “Karbala”
  • Somali: “Karbalaa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کربلا”
  • Spanish: “Karbala”
  • Spanish: “Karbalá”
  • Spanish: “Kerbala”
  • Spanish: “Qerbala”
  • Spanish: “Qerbalá”
  • Sundanese: “Karbala”
  • Swedish: “Karbala”
  • Swedish: “Karbila”
  • Swedish: “Kerbala”
  • Swedish: “Kerbela”
  • Tagalog: “Karbala”
  • Tagalog: “Kerbala”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Карбало”
  • Tajik: “Карбало”
  • Tamil: “கர்பலா”
  • Tatar: “Кәрбәлаэ”
  • Telugu: “కర్బాలా”
  • Thai: “กัรบะลาอ์”
  • Turkish: “Kerbela”
  • Turkish: “Kerbelâ”
  • Uighur: “كةربالا”
  • Uighur: “كەربەلا”
  • Ukrainian: “Кербела”
  • Urdu: “Karbala”
  • Urdu: “Kerbala”
  • Urdu: “کربلا”
  • Uzbek: “Karbalo”
  • Venetian: “Kerbela”
  • Vietnamese: “Karbala”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Karbala”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kerbala”
  • Western Panjabi: “کربلا”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡尔巴拉”

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