Southern Iraq
Najaf Governorate
Kufa District

Najaf

Najaf is the capital city of the eponymous in central , about 160 km south of . Its estimated population in 2024 was about 1.41 million people.
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  • Type: City with 1,220,000 residents
  • Description: city in central-south Iraq
  • Also known as: “Al Najaf al Ashraf”, “Al-Najaf”, “Al-Najaf Al-Ashraf”, “An Najaf”, “An Najaf al Ashraf”, “An Najaf Al Ashraf”, “An-Najaf”, “Baniqia”, “Meshed ’Ali”, “Neshed Ali”, and “بانيقيا”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Imam Ali Shrine and Alnajaf Stadium.

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The , also known as the Mosque of Ali, is a Shi'ite and shrine, located in Najaf, in the of . The site is a mausoleum which Shia and Sunni Muslims believe contains the tomb of Ali ibn Abi Talib, a cousin, son-in-law and companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Stadium
Photo: Mhmedreda, CC BY-SA 4.0.
An-Najaf Stadium is a multi-use located in Najaf, . It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the home stadium of Al-Najaf SC. Opened in 1970, the stadium holds 12,000 people.

Najaf

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)
IATA airport code
NJF
United Nations Location Codes
IQ ANJ and IQ NJF
Open location code
8H46282H+CX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 348117530
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
98860
Wiki­data ID
Q168193
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Najaf” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Nexhef”
  • Arabic: “الكافي”
  • Arabic: “النجف الأشرف”
  • Arabic: “النجف الاشرف”
  • Arabic: “النجف”
  • Arabic: “نجف”
  • Aragonese: “Nachaf”
  • Armenian: “Նաջաֆ”
  • Asturian: “Najaf”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nəcəf”
  • Bashkir: “Ән-Нәжәф”
  • Basque: “Al-Najaf”
  • Basque: “An-Najaf”
  • Basque: “Najaf”
  • Belarusian: “Ан-Наджаф”
  • Belarusian: “Наджаф”
  • Belarusian: “Неджэф”
  • Belarusian: “Эн-Наджаф”
  • Bengali: “নাজাফ”
  • Bulgarian: “Наджаф”
  • Catalan: “Nadjaf”
  • Catalan: “Najaf”
  • Cebuano: “An Najaf”
  • Central Kurdish: “نەجەف”
  • Chinese: “拿謝夫”
  • Chinese: “納傑夫”
  • Chinese: “納杰夫”
  • Chinese: “纳杰夫”
  • Croatian: “Nadžaf”
  • Czech: “Al-Nadžaf”
  • Czech: “Nadžaf”
  • Czech: “Nadžáf”
  • Danish: “An Najaf”
  • Danish: “An-Najaf”
  • Danish: “Najaf”
  • Danish: “Nejef”
  • Dutch: “Nadjaf”
  • Dutch: “Najaf”
  • Dutch: “Nedjef”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “النجف”
  • Esperanto: “Naĝaf”
  • Esperanto: “Naĝafo”
  • Esperanto: “Najaf”
  • Estonian: “An-Najaf”
  • Estonian: “Nadžaf”
  • Estonian: “Najaf”
  • Finnish: “Al-Najaf”
  • Finnish: “An Najaf”
  • Finnish: “An-Najaf”
  • Finnish: “Nadzaf”
  • Finnish: “Najaf”
  • French: “Al-Nadjaf”
  • French: “Nadjaf”
  • French: “Najaaf”
  • French: “Najaf”
  • Galician: “Najaf”
  • Georgian: “ნაჯაფი”
  • German: “Al-Nadschaf”
  • German: “Al-Najaf”
  • German: “Nadschaf”
  • German: “Najaf”
  • German: “Nedjef”
  • German: “Nedschef”
  • Greek: “Νατζάφ”
  • Hausa: “Najaf”
  • Hebrew: “נג’ף”
  • Hebrew: “נגף”
  • Hindi: “नजफ”
  • Hindi: “नजफ़”
  • Hungarian: “Nedzsef”
  • Indonesian: “Najaf”
  • Irish: “Najaf”
  • Italian: “An Najaf”
  • Italian: “Najaf”
  • Japanese: “ナジャフ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Najaf”
  • Kashmiri: “نَجَف”
  • Kazakh: “Нажаф”
  • Kazakh: “Нәджәф”
  • Korean: “나자프”
  • Kurdish: “Al-Necef”
  • Latvian: “Nedžefa”
  • Lithuanian: “Nadžafas”
  • Lombard: “An Najaf”
  • Lombard: “Najaf”
  • Lombard: “النجف”
  • Lombard: “نجف”
  • Malay: “Najaf”
  • Malayalam: “Najaf”
  • Malayalam: “നജഫ്‌”
  • Malayalam: “നജാഫ്”
  • Maori: “Najaf”
  • Marathi: “नजफ”
  • Mazanderani: “نجف”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “النجف الاشرف”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “النجف”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “نجف”
  • Mingrelian: “ნაჯაფი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Al-Najaf”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Najaf”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Najaf”
  • Norwegian: “Najaf”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܢܓܦ (ܡܕܝܢܬܐ)”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܢܓܦ”
  • Ossetian: “Эн-Наджаф”
  • Panjabi: “ਨਜਫ਼”
  • Persian: “نجف اشرف”
  • Persian: “نجف”
  • Polish: “Al-Nadżaf”
  • Polish: “An-Nadżaf”
  • Polish: “Nadżaf”
  • Polish: “Nedżef”
  • Portuguese: “Al-Najaf”
  • Portuguese: “An-Najaf”
  • Portuguese: “Najaf”
  • Portuguese: “Najafe”
  • Romanian: “Najaf”
  • Russian: “Ан-Наджаф”
  • Russian: “Неджеф”
  • Russian: “Эн-Наджаф”
  • Scots: “Najaf”
  • Scots: “النجف”
  • Serbian: “Nadžaf”
  • Serbian: “Наџаф”
  • Serbian: “نجف”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nadžaf”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Najaf”
  • Silesian: “An-Nadżaf”
  • Slovak: “An-Nadžaf”
  • Slovenian: “Nadžaf”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نجف”
  • Spanish: “Al-Nayaf”
  • Spanish: “Najaf”
  • Spanish: “Nayaf”
  • Spanish: “Náyaf”
  • Swedish: “Al Najaf”
  • Swedish: “Al-Najaf”
  • Swedish: “An Najaf”
  • Swedish: “An-Najaf”
  • Swedish: “Najaf”
  • 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”

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