Najaf
Najaf is the capital city of the eponymous Najaf Governorate in central Iraq, about 160 km south of Baghdad. Its estimated population in 2024 was about 1.41 million people.
Photo: Toushiro, Public domain.
- Type: City with 1,220,000 residents
- Description: city in central-south Iraq
- Also known as: “Al Najaf”, “Al Najaf al Ashraf”, “Al-Najaf”, “Al-Najaf Al-Ashraf”, “An Najaf al Ashraf”, “An Najaf Al Ashraf”, “An-Najaf”, “Baniqia”, “Meshed ’Ali”, “Nadzaf”, “Nadžáf”, “Nadżaf”, “Naĝaf”, “Najaaf”, “Najafe”, “Nedjef”, “Nedschef”, “Nedżef”, “Nejef”, “Neshed Ali”, “Неджеф”, “الكافي”, “النجف الأشرف”, “بانيقيا”, and “نجف اشرف”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Imam Ali Shrine and Alnajaf Stadium.
Imam Ali Shrine
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Najaf
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Kufa District, Najaf, Southern Iraq, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.001° or 32° 0′ 4″ north
Longitude
44.33° or 44° 19′ 48″ east
Population
1,220,000
Elevation
41 metres (135 feet)
Open location code
8H46282H+CX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Najaf” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Nexhef”
- Arabic: “النجف الاشرف”
- Arabic: “النجف”
- Aragonese: “Nachaf”
- Armenian: “Նաջաֆ”
- Asturian: “Najaf”
- Azerbaijani: “Nəcəf”
- Bashkir: “Ән-Нәжәф”
- Basque: “Al-Najaf”
- Basque: “Najaf”
- Belarusian: “Наджаф”
- Belarusian: “Неджэф”
- Belarusian: “Эн-Наджаф”
- Bengali: “নাজাফ”
- Bulgarian: “Наджаф”
- Catalan: “Najaf”
- Cebuano: “An Najaf”
- Cebuano: “Nädzäf”
- Central Kurdish: “نەجەف”
- Chinese: “納傑夫”
- Chinese: “納杰夫”
- Chinese: “纳杰夫”
- Croatian: “Nadžaf”
- Czech: “Nadžaf”
- Danish: “Najaf”
- Dutch: “Najaf”
- Egyptian Arabic: “النجف”
- Esperanto: “Naĝafo”
- Estonian: “An-Najaf”
- Finnish: “Al-Najaf”
- Finnish: “Najaf”
- French: “Al-Nadjaf”
- French: “Nadjaf”
- Galician: “Najaf”
- Georgian: “ნაჯაფი”
- German: “Al-Nadschaf”
- German: “Nadschaf”
- Greek: “Νατζάφ”
- Hausa: “Najaf”
- Hebrew: “נג’ף”
- Hebrew: “נגף”
- Hindi: “नजफ़”
- Hungarian: “Nedzsef”
- Indonesian: “Najaf”
- Irish: “Najaf”
- Italian: “Najaf”
- Japanese: “ナジャフ”
- Kalaallisut: “Najaf”
- Kannada: “ನಜಾಫ್”
- Kashmiri: “نَجَف”
- Kazakh: “Нажаф”
- Kazakh: “Нәджәф”
- Kinaray-A: “Nëdzëf”
- Korean: “나자프”
- Kurdish: “Necef”
- Latvian: “Nedžefa”
- Lithuanian: “Nadžafas”
- Lombard: “Najaf”
- Malay: “Najaf”
- Malayalam: “നജഫ്”
- Malayalam: “നജാഫ്”
- Maori: “Najaf”
- Marathi: “नजफ”
- Mazanderani: “نجف”
- Mesopotamian Arabic: “النجف”
- Mingrelian: “ნაჯაფი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Najaf”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Najaf”
- Norwegian: “Najaf”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܢܓܦ (ܡܕܝܢܬܐ)”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܢܓܦ”
- Ossetian: “Эн-Наджаф”
- Pampanga: “Najaf”
- Panjabi: “ਨਜਫ਼”
- Persian: “نجف”
- Polish: “Al-Nadżaf”
- Polish: “An-Nadżaf”
- Portuguese: “Al-Najaf”
- Portuguese: “An-Najaf”
- Romanian: “Najaf”
- Russian: “Эн-Наджаф”
- Scots: “Najaf”
- Serbian: “Nadžaf”
- Serbian: “Наџаф”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nadžaf”
- Silesian: “An-Nadżaf”
- Slovak: “An-Nadžaf”
- Slovenian: “Nadžaf”
- South Azerbaijani: “نجف”
- Spanish: “Al-Nayaf”
- Spanish: “Nayaf”
- Spanish: “Náyaf”
- Swedish: “Najaf”
- Tagalog: “Nëdzëf”
- Tajik: “Наҷаф”
- Tamil: “நஜாப்”
- Tatar: “Нәҗәф”
- Thai: “นาจาฟ”
- Thai: “แนแจฟ”
- Turkish: “Necef”
- Uighur: “نەجەف”
- Ukrainian: “Ан-Наджаф”
- Ukrainian: “Ен-Наджаф”
- Urdu: “نجف”
- Uzbek: “Najaf”
- Venetian: “Najaf”
- Waray (Philippines): “Najaf”
- Western Armenian: “Նաժաֆ”
- Western Panjabi: “نجف”
- Wu Chinese: “纳杰夫”
- Yue Chinese: “拿謝夫”
- “Naǧaf”
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