Al-Saydiya

Al-Saydiya is a neighborhood in the Al Rashid district of southwestern Baghdad, Iraq. Baiyaa is to the north and Dora to the east. A once middle-class district, much of Al-Saydiya was built within the last three decades on prime real estate between Baghdad Airport Road and the main highway where it forks into central Baghdad and south to Basra.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Al Jadriyah Bridge.

Al Jadriyah Bridge

Bridge

Photo: Solider 16IQ, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Al Jadriyah Bridge is situated 4 km northeast of Al-Saydiya.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Al-Rasheed and Dora.

Al-Rasheed

Quarter

Photo: jamesdale10, CC BY 2.0.

Al Rasheed or Al Rashid is one of the nine administrative districts in Baghdad, Iraq. It is in southern Baghdad, on the western side of the Tigris River. Mansour district is to the north of the western half of the district, on the other side of the Baghdad Airport Road. Al-Rasheed is situated 2½ km northwest of Al-Saydiya.

Dora

Suburb

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Dora is a neighborhood in Al Rashid administrative district, southern Baghdad, Iraq. Before the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, it was home to the city's largest concentration of Christian Assyrians, as well as Mandaeans and Muslim families. Dora is situated 4½ km east of Al-Saydiya.

Al-Jadriya

Suburb

Photo: Ali hassan 28, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Al-Jadriya is a neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq. It is situated along the Tigris River and shares a significant but comparatively smaller part of the peninsula with the neighboring Karrada district. Al-Jadriya is situated 5 km northeast of Al-Saydiya.

Al-Saydiya

Type: Quarter with 61,300 residents
Description: neighborhood in Al Rashid, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq
Categories: neighborhood and locality
Location: Karkh, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude

33.24946° or 33° 14′ 58″ north

Longitude

44.3561° or 44° 21′ 22″ east

Population

61,300

Open location code

8H5669X4+QC

OpenStreetMap ID

node 11527301033

OpenStreetMap feature

place=quarter

Wikidata ID

Q4703203

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Slovenian—“Al-Saydiya” goes by many names.

Arabic: “السيدية”
Arabic: “السيديه”
Arabic: “سيدية”
Central Kurdish: “سەیدییە”
Dutch: “Al-Saydiya”
Slovenian: “Al Sajdida”

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