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| Baghdad | |
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| Ceety | |
| بغداد Baġdād | |
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 Baghdad
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| Coordinates: 33°20′00″N 44°26′00″E / 33.33333°N 44.43333°E | |
| Kintra |  Iraq |
| Province | Baghdad |
| Established | 762 AD |
| Founded by | Abu Jafar al-Mansour |
| Government | |
| • Type | Mayor-cooncil |
| • Body | Baghdad Ceety Advisory Cooncil |
| • Mayor | Saber Nabet Al-Essawi |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2,260.2 km2 (872.7 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 34 m (112 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Estimate (2011) | 7,216,040 |
| • Rank | 1st |
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| Time zone | Arabie Staundart Time (UTC+3) |
| • Summer (DST) | No DST (UTC) |
Baghdad (Persie[3][4][5][6]; Arabic: بغداد, Baġdād, IPA: [bæɣˈdæːd]) is the caipital o Iraq an o Baghdad Province, wi whilk it is coterminous. Haein a population estimatit atween 7 an 7.5 million, it is the lairgest ceety in Iraq[1][2] an the seicont lairgest ceety in the Arab Warld (efter Cairo, Egyp).
Locatit on the River Tigris, the ceety dates back tae the 8t century. Baghdad haes a past as a centre o the Arab an Muslim warld especially durin the Abbasid Caliphate.
Sister ceeties[eedit | eedit soorce]
Amman, Jordan
Beirut, Lebanon[7]
Dubai, Unitit Arab Emirates
Sana'a, Yemen[8]
Nishapur, Iran[9]
Pyongyang, North Korea
Basra, Iraq
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedlargestcities - ↑ ;;A Concise Pahlavi Dictionary. MacKenzie. Routledge Publications 2000
- ↑ "ما معنى اسم مدينة بغداد ومن سماه ؟". Seenjeem.maktoob.com. Retrieved 2010-04-27.
- ↑ "ما معنى (بغداد)؟ - تمت الإجابة عنه - Google إجابات". Egabat.google.com. Retrieved 2010-04-27.
- ↑ Guy Le Strange, Baghdad During the Abbasid Caliphate from Contemporary Arabic and Persian, p. 10
- ↑ "Twinning the Cities". City of Beirut. Retrieved 2008-01-13.
- ↑ Iraqi capital of Baghdad twinned with North Yemen counterpart of Sanaa [Yemen news items 1989:Twinning]
- ↑ http://www.neishabourcity.com/shahrdari/index.php
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