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Baghdad [note 1] (Arabic: بغداد, Baghdād) is the capital and 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 most populous cities in the Middle East and Arab World and forms 22% of the country's population .
Tegucigalpa (de facto and official constitutional capital) and Comayagüela (official constitutional capital) 1,502 v580 27 Tanzania [3] Dar es Salaam (de facto and jurisdictional capital) 1,493 576 28 Mexico: Mexico City: 1,485 573 29 Italy: Rome: 1,285 496.3 2 Sudan: Khartoum: 1,010 390 24 Colombia: Bogotá: 307.36 118.67 31 Iran: Tehran: 615 ...
According to one version, the name Baghdati is derived from the Old Persian language.Its correct form is Baghdad. On April 14, 1940, in Baghdad 10 years after the death of Vladimir Mayakovsky, Baghdad was changed as an administrative unit and renamed Mayakovsky, which it held until the late 1990s. it was later reinstated to his old name.
Baghdad Governorate (Arabic: محافظة بغداد Muḥāfaẓat 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 governorate is one of two small provinces of all 19 in Iraq into which the country divides entirely, yet by a ...
Southernmost capital of an independent sovereign state in the world. 41.32 Tirana: Albania: 41.72 Tbilisi (official) Georgia: 41.9 Rome: Italy: 41.9 Vatican City: Vatican City: City-state: 42 Skopje: North Macedonia: 42.23 Tskhinvali: South Ossetia: De facto independent state recognised by Russia, Nicaragua, Nauru, Venezuela, Abkhazia and ...
Lutifiyah area of southwest Baghdad; Mashada, 25 miles north of Baghdad [9] [10] Risafi—in northwestern Baghdad [11] Taji, Iraq (Arabic: تاجي) is an area approximately 20 miles north of Baghdad, and the site of a large U.S.-controlled military base. Kamaliya—in southeastern Baghdad [12] [13] Al-Salam, also called Tobchi—in south Al ...
ISIL forces captured the city and region, with Iraqi troops fighting to recover the area. Iran and Kata'ib Hezbollah employed ground forces to assist the Iraqi Army with ISIL releasing photos including one of a dead Hezbollah fighter. [4] The US and allied countries have bombed in and around Yathrib during the 2014 American-led intervention in ...
When Georgia was part of the Russian Empire and during the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, its name was changed to Baghdadi (Russian: Багдади). [citation needed] In 1940, it was renamed Mayakovsky (Georgian: მაიაკოვსკი; Russian: Маяковский), after the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky who was born here in 1893. [3]