Baghdad Governorate

Governorate of Iraq

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Governorate in Iraq

Baghdad Governorate محافظة بغداد Baghdad Province
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Nickname: City of Peace (Madinat Al Salam)
Baghdad Governorate
Coordinates: Very high · 2nd of 18
Website	www.baghdad.gov.iq

Baghdad Governorate (Arabic: 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 governorate is one of two small provinces of all 19 in Iraq into which the country divides entirely, yet by a margin of almost three-to-one, the most populous.

Description

Baghdad Governorate is one of the most developed parts of Iraq, with better infrastructure than much of Iraq, though heavily damaged from the US-led invasion in 2003 and continuing violence during the Iraq War. It used to have one of the highest rates for terrorism in the world with suicide bombers, however terrorist attacks have been rare since the territorial defeat of ISIL in Iraq in late 2017.

Baghdad has at least 12 bridges spanning the Tigris river - joining the east and west of the city. The governorate's northeast includes multiple Mesopotamian Marshes.

The Sadr City district is the most densely populated area in Iraq.

Province administration

Baghdad is governed by the Baghdad Provincial Council. Representatives to the Baghdad Provincial Council were elected by their peers from the lower councils of the administrative districts in Baghdad in numbers proportional to the population of the various districts that were represented.

Government

Governor: Abdul Muttalib Al Alwi^[3]
Provincial Council Chairman (PCC): Riyadh Al Adhadh^{[citation needed]}

Districts

Adhamiyah
Karkh
Karrada
Kadhimiya
Mansour
Sadr City
Al-Rashid
Al-Rusafa
New Baghdad
Al-Ghazaliya

Demographics

Historical population

Year

Pop.

±% p.a.

1977

3,189,700

—

1987

3,841,268

+1.88%

1997

5,423,964

+3.51%

2009

6,702,538

+1.78%

2018

8,126,755

+2.16%

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Source: Citypopulation^[4]

References

^ "الرئيسيةالمؤشرات الديمغرافية والسكانية" (in Arabic). Central organization for statistics and information technology. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
^ "من هو محافظ بغداد الجديد". Bas News. 5 February 2024.
^ "Population of Governorates". www.citypopulation.de.