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Karbala [a] is a city in central Iraq, located about 100 km (62 mi) southwest of Baghdad, and a few miles east of Lake Milh, also known as Razzaza Lake. [6] [7] Karbala is the capital of Karbala Governorate, and has an estimated population of 691,100 people (2024).
Karbala Governorate (Arabic: محافظة كربلاء, Muḥāfażat Karbalāʾ) is a governorate in central Iraq. Its administrative center is the city of Karbala, a holy city for Shia Muslims for housing the shrine of the revered Imam Hussein. The population is majority Shia. [2] The governorate includes part of the artificial Lake Milh.
As of 2007 Karbala governorate as whole was estimated to have 887,859 people in 2007, with equal numbers of men and women. Al-Hindiya District had about 26% of the governorate's population, or about 230,000 people. As of 2014 the population was mainly Shia, including many refugees from the violence in Baghdad and Diyala. [11]
Metropolitan area State GDP Purchasing power parity - ppp % contribution to state GDP [5] % Contribution to National GDP Total Area (Urban+Rural)(sq.km) Total Population (Urban+Rural)(2011) Source 1 Greater Mumbai Metropolitan Area (Includes Mumbai City, Mumbai Suburban, Thane, Palghar, Raigad) Maharashtra ₹ 13,417.15 billion (US$170.69 billion)
This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories .
One in every five people in India will be elderly citizens by 2050, UN report says India’s population of citizens over 60 will double by 2050, UN says Skip to main content
India occupies 2.41% of the world's land area but supports over 18% of the world's population. At the 2001 census 72.2% of the population [ 100 ] lived in about 638,000 villages [ 101 ] and the remaining 27.8% [ 100 ] lived in more than 5,100 towns and over 380 urban agglomerations . [ 102 ]
As of 2024, with an estimated population of 1.484 billion, India is the world's most populous country. India occupies 2.4% of the world's area and is home to 17.5% of the world's population . [ 2 ] The Indo-Gangetic Plain has one of the world's biggest stretches of fertile not-deep alluvium and are among the most densely populated areas of the ...