Baghdad

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Baghdad
Ceety
بغداد Baġdād
Baghdad owerleukin the Tigris
Baghdad
Coordinates: 33°20′00″N 44°26′00″E / 33.33333°N 44.43333°E / 33.33333; 44.43333
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
	[1][2]
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.

1. ↑ ^{a b} 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. ↑ ^{a b} "Cities and urban areas in Iraq with population over 100,000", Mongabay.com
3. ↑ A Concise Pahlavi Dictionary. MacKenzie. Routledge Publications 2000
4. ↑ "ما معنى اسم مدينة بغداد ومن سماه ؟". Seenjeem.maktoob.com. Archived frae the original on 13 Julie 2012. Retrieved 27 Apryle 2010.
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