Al Alam
Al Alam is a neighborhood in Baghdad Governorate, Iraq. Al Alam is situated nearby to the quarter حي اجنادين, as well as near the neighborhood شهداء السيدية.Places of Interest
Highlights include Camp Al-Saqr.
Camp Al-Saqr
Military installation
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Camp Al-Saqr, referred to by some media sources as Camp Falcon, Forward Operating Base Falcon, Joint Security Station Falcon, or Combat Outpost Falcon, was a United States military forward operating base in Iraq a short distance outside Baghdad, some 13 kilometres south of the Green Zone. Camp Al-Saqr is situated 4 km southeast of Al Alam.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Al-Saydiya and Al-Rasheed.
Al-Saydiya
Quarter
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.
Al-Rasheed
Quarter
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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 3 km north of Al Alam.
Dora
Suburb
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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 6 km east of Al Alam.
Al Alam
- Type: Neighborhood
- Also known as: “Hayy AlAlaam” and “حي الاعلام”
- Category: locality
- Location: Baghdad Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.23627° or 33° 14′ 11″ northLongitude
44.3378° or 44° 20′ 16″ eastOpen location code
8H5668PQ+G4OpenStreetMap ID
node 3718312982OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodWikidata ID
Q12209199
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In Other Languages
“Al Alam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حي الإعلام”
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