Al Nasr Wal Salam or Nasser Wa Salaam ( ar, النصر والسلام, also known as Al-Hasuah) is a city in the
Abu Ghraib
Abu Ghraib (; ar, أبو غريب, ''Abū Ghurayb'') is a city in the Baghdad Governorate of Iraq, located just west of Baghdad's city center, or northwest of Baghdad International Airport. It has a population of 189,000 (2003). The old road t ...
district of
Baghdad Governorate
Baghdad Governorate ( ar, محافظة بغداد ''Muḥāfaẓät Baġdād''), also known as the Baghdad Province, is the capital governorate of Iraq. It includes the capital Baghdad as well as the surrounding metropolitan area. The governor ...
, about 30 km (18.6 mi) west of
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...
. It has 208,506 inhabitants..
It is a Shiite-populated city with few Sunnis on the outskirts of Nasr City. About 200,000 people are Shiites and the rest are Sunnis. In 2003, there were 100,000 people, all Shiites displaced and killed by Sunni militias.
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Populated places in Baghdad Province