Baghdad

**Baghdad**
Baghdad
	Ceety
	بغداد Baġdād
	Baghdad owerleukin the Tigris
	Baghdad
	Coordinates: 33°20′00″N 44°26′00″E / 33.33333°N 44.43333°E
Kintra	Iraq
Province	Baghdad
Established	762 AD
Foondit bi	Abu Jafar al-Mansour
Govrenment
• Teep	Mayor-cooncil
• Bodi	Baghdad Ceety Advisory Cooncil
• Mayor	Saber Nabet Al-Essawi
Area
• Total	2260.2 km2 (872.7 sq mi)
Elevation	34 m (112 ft)
Population
• Estimate (2011)	7,216,040
• Rank	1st
Time zone	UTC 3 (Arabie Staundart Time)
• Summer (DST)	No DST

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

References

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Estimates o tot population differ substantially. The Encyclopædia Britannica gies a 2001 population o 4,950,000, the 2006 Lancet Report states a population o 7,216,050 in 2011.
- "Baghdad" Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 30 November 2016.
- "[1]". freemit airtin in |title= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help) (110 KB). Bi Gilbert Burnham, Riyadh Lafta, Shannon Doocy, an Les Roberts. The Lancet, 11 October 2006
- Baghdad frae GlobalSecurity.org
↑ ^a ^b "Cities and urban areas in Iraq with population over 100,000", Mongabay.com
↑ A Concise Pahlavi Dictionary. MacKenzie. Routledge Publications 2000
↑ "ما معنى اسم مدينة بغداد ومن سماه ؟". Seenjeem.maktoob.com. Archived frae the original on 13 Julie 2012. Retrieved 27 Apryle 2010.
↑ "ما معنى (بغداد)؟ - تمت الإجابة عنه - Google إجابات". Egabat.google.com. Archived frae the original on 14 Januar 2013. Retrieved 27 Apryle 2010.
↑ Guy Le Strange, Baghdad During the Abbasid Caliphate from Contemporary Arabic and Persian, p. 10
↑ "Twinning the Cities". City of Beirut. Archived frae the original on 21 Februar 2008. Retrieved 13 Januar 2008.
↑ Iraqi capital of Baghdad twinned with North Yemen counterpart of Sanaa [Yemen news items 1989:Twinning]
↑ http://www.neishabourcity.com/shahrdari/index.php Archived 2011-05-14 at the Wayback Machine

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[population-1] Estimates o tot population differ substantially. The Encyclopædia Britannica gies a 2001 population o 4,950,000, the 2006 Lancet Report states a population o 7,216,050 in 2011.
"Baghdad" Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 30 November 2016.

"[1]". freemit airtin in |title= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help) (110 KB). Bi Gilbert Burnham, Riyadh Lafta, Shannon Doocy, an Les Roberts. The Lancet, 11 October 2006

Baghdad frae GlobalSecurity.org

[2] "Baghdad" Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 30 November 2016.

[3] "[1]". freemit airtin in |title= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help) (110 KB). Bi Gilbert Burnham, Riyadh Lafta, Shannon Doocy, an Les Roberts. The Lancet, 11 October 2006

[4] Baghdad frae GlobalSecurity.org

[largestcities-2] "Cities and urban areas in Iraq with population over 100,000", Mongabay.com

[3] A Concise Pahlavi Dictionary. MacKenzie. Routledge Publications 2000

[ما_معنى_اسم_مدينة_بغداد_ومن_سماه_؟-4] "ما معنى اسم مدينة بغداد ومن سماه ؟". Seenjeem.maktoob.com. Archived frae the original on 13 Julie 2012. Retrieved 27 Apryle 2010.

[Egabat.google.com-5] "ما معنى (بغداد)؟ - تمت الإجابة عنه - Google إجابات". Egabat.google.com. Archived frae the original on 14 Januar 2013. Retrieved 27 Apryle 2010.

[6] Guy Le Strange, Baghdad During the Abbasid Caliphate from Contemporary Arabic and Persian, p. 10

[twins-7] "Twinning the Cities". City of Beirut. Archived frae the original on 21 Februar 2008. Retrieved 13 Januar 2008.

[8] Iraqi capital of Baghdad twinned with North Yemen counterpart of Sanaa [Yemen news items 1989:Twinning]

[9] ttp://www.neishabourcity.com/shahrdari/index.php Archived 2011-05-14 at the Wayback Machine

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