This article lists
neighborhood
A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neigh ...
s and the nine
administrative districts within 50 km of
Baghdad
Baghdad ( or ; , ) is the capital and List of largest cities of Iraq, largest city of Iraq, located along the Tigris in the central part of the country. With a population exceeding 7 million, it ranks among the List of largest cities in the A ...
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Iraq
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The order is not alphabetical, but is instead arranged according to whether the neighborhood is east or west of the
Tigris
The Tigris ( ; see #Etymology, below) is the eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of the Armenian Highlands through the Syrian Desert, Syrian and Arabia ...
and then grouped roughly by north–south order. Place names may be affected by differences in translation of Arabic to English. If sourced information on the location was not available, the neighborhood is grouped in the unknown section in alphabetical order. According to a report published by the New York Times on June 3, 2007, there are 457 distinct neighborhoods in Baghdad.
West of the Tigris
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Kadhimiya
Kadhimiya (, ) or Kadhimayn () is a northern neighbourhood of the city of Baghdad, Iraq. It is about from the city's center, on the west bank of the Tigris. 'Kadhimiya' is also the name of one of nine administrative districts in Baghdad. As th ...
District
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Al-Kadhimya neighborhood
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Al-Shu'ala
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Utafiyah
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Hurriya City
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Karkh District
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Green Zone
The Green Zone () is the most common name for the International Zone of Baghdad. It is a area in the Karkh, Karkh district of central Baghdad, Iraq. It is the chief government precinct and the seat of the Iraqi government.
History
Pre-200 ...
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Mansour district
Al-Mansour or just Mansour () is one of the nine administrative districts in Baghdad, administrative districts in Baghdad, Iraq. It is in western Baghdad and is bounded on the east by Karkh, al-Karkh district in central Baghdad, to the north by K ...
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Gazaliyah
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Iskan
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Washash
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Al-Adel
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Al-Jami'a
''Al-jāmi'a'' () is a book that Twelver Shias believe was dictated by Muhammad to Ali.
Ja'far al-Sadiq refers to it as a scroll (''ṣaḥīfa'') that is 70 cubits long and was dictated by the Islamic prophet Muhammad and written down by Ali. ...
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Al-Khadhraa
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Mansour neighbourhood
Mansour is a neighborhood within Mansour district, Baghdad. It is numbered the 62nd Neighbourhoods of Baghdad, neighbourhood of Baghdad. It is the home of many schools, shops and the Baghdad Zoo. Mansour is located from the Green Zone, and was on ...
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Al-A'amiriya
Al-A'amiriya (Arabic
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(Amiriya)
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Yarmouk
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Al Rashid District
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Hayy Al-A'amel (Amel or Amil): Just east of Jihad and west of Bayya’ along Baghdad Airport Road.
** Al-Baya' (
Baiyaa): East of Amil along Baghdad Airport Road.
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Al-Jihad: Just east of Furat and west of Amil along Baghdad Airport Road,
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Al-Shurtta (al-Shurta): A "middle- to working-class pocket in the dusty far west of Baghdad"
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Muwasalat and
Shurta Al-Khamsa neighborhood, just south of Bayya’
** Swaib
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Al-Saydiya
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Al-Dora: largest neighborhood in the city
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Al-Jadriyah (Baghdad)
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Furat: Just east of
Baghdad International Airport along
Baghdad Airport Road
East of the Tigris
*Adhamiyah District
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Sha'ab City
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Shaab-Ur: North of Sadr City
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Hayy Ur
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Al-Wazireya (Waziriyah)
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Adhamiyah neighborhood
** Just outside the
Baghdad Wall from Adhamiyah are several smaller neighborhoods
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Dilfiya
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Maghrib
Maghrib () is one of the five mandatory salah (Islamic prayers), and contains three cycles (''rak'a''). If counted from midnight, it is the fourth one.
According to Shia and Sunni Muslims, the period for Maghrib prayer starts just after suns ...
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Kasra
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Qahira
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Sulaikh
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Saba Abkar
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Raghiba Khatoun area of Adhamiya
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Ilaam
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Sadr City
Sadr City (), formerly known as Al-Thawra () and Saddam City (), is a suburb district of the city of Baghdad, Iraq. It was built in 1959 by Prime Minister of Iraq, Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim, Abdul Karim Qassim and named Al-Rafidain Distric ...
* Rusafa District
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Bab Al-Moatham
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Fadhil: Sunni Arab neighborhood of multistory tenements along the east bank of the Tigris River, the oldest neighborhood in Baghdad
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Sheikh Omar, near Fadhil
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Sadriya
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Shorja: this marketplace, established during the
Abbasid period about 750 CE, is the city's oldest
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Bab Al-Sharqi : Mixed area.
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Al-Sa'adoon
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Haydar-Khana: One of the oldest neighborhoods of Baghdad and contains the ancient
Haydar-Khana Mosque.
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New Baghdad (Baghdad Al-Jadida) or 9 Nissan District
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Zayouna: Mixed neighborhood.
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Karrada (
Karradah) District
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Al-Za'franiya
Al-Za'franiya district () is a neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq. It is located in the south-east of Baghdad at the confluence of the Tigris
The Tigris ( ; see #Etymology, below) is the eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, t ...
: A semi-rural area on the outskirts of Baghdad squeezed between the Diyala and the Tigris rivers in south-eastern Baghdad.
Unknown
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Khalis, northeast of Baghdad
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Palestine Street,
Aqari district,
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Triangle of Death (Iraq)
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Yusufiyah
Yusufiyah (; also transliterated as Yusafiyah, Youssifiyah or Yusifiyah, occasionally prefixed with Al-) is a regional township in the Baghdad Governorate of Iraq.
Background
Yusufiyah is named after Yūsuf (Joseph). It is about south of Baghd ...
—40 km south of Baghdad
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Mahmoudiyah 40 km south of Baghdad—Known as the “Gateway to Baghdad,”
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Lutifiyah area of southwest Baghdad
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Mashada, 25 miles north of Baghdad
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Risafi—in northwestern Baghdad
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Taji, Iraq () is an area approximately 20 miles north of Baghdad, and the site of a large U.S.-controlled military base.
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Kamaliya—in southeastern Baghdad
* Al-Salam, also called Tobchi—in south
Al-Hurriya
See also
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Administrative districts in Baghdad
References
{{Administrative districts in Baghdad
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