Central Iraq
Central Iraq refers to the central region of Iraq. It includes Salah al-Din, Baghdad, Babylon, and Karbala.
The major cities are Baghdad, Hillah, Karbala, Tikrit, and Samarra.
Demographics[edit]
Baghdad Governorate[edit]
Baghdad Governorate is the smallest governorate in size but the largest in population. It has always been home to diverse religions and ethnic groups. About 98% of the population of Baghdad Governorate lives in Baghdad City, the capital of Baghdad Governorate and the capital of Iraq.[1]
Baghdad is home to diverse ethnic groups including Arabs, Kurds, Turkmens, Assyrians, Yazidis, Shabakis, Armenians and Mandaeans.
Baghdad historically had a majority Sunni population, but by 1999, around 52% of the city's population were Shias. Since 1999, 1.5 million people migrated to Baghdad. As of early 2003, about 20% of Baghdad was the result of mixed marriages between Shi'ites and Sunnis.[2] The Iraqi conflict has caused hundreds of thousands of internally displaced Iraqis of different religions and ethnicities to flee to the city. Baghdad has Shia, Sunni, Assyrian, Armenian and mixed neighborhoods. Baghdad was once home to a large Jewish community and regularly visited by Sikh pilgrims.
The majority of the citizens are Muslims with minorities of Christians, Yezidis and Mandeans also present. There are many historic religious centers distributed around the city including mosques, churches and Mashkhannas cultic huts.
The Kādhimayn suburb of Baghdad contains the tombs of the seventh and ninth Twelver Shi'ite Imams, Musa al-Kadhim and Muhammad at-Taqi, who are visited by Shi'ite Muslims from all over the world.[3][4][5]
Saladin Governorate[edit]
Saladin Governorate is almost entirely Arab, except for Tooz District with a Turkmen majority.[6][7]
It is also almost entirely Sunni Muslim, except for Dujail District with a Shia Muslim majority.[8]
Babylon Governorate[edit]
Babylon Governorate has an exclusively Shia Arab population.[9]
Karbala Governorate[edit]
Karbala Governorate also has an exclusively Shia Arab population. Karbala is home to the Imam Hussain Shrine and Al-Abbas Shrine who are visited by Shia pilgrims from all over the world. Karbala is one of the most famous Shi'ite areas of the world, alongside Najaf, Kufa Mashhad, Qom, and Baghdad.[10]
Geography and climate[edit]
Central Iraq in mainly desert, but the cities are built on vast plains that are bisected by the Tigris river or the Euphrates river. The land on which the cities are built on is almost entirely flat and low-lying, being alluvial due to the large floods which happen on the rivers.
Like the majority of Iraq, Central Iraq has a Hot desert climate.[11]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Sub-national HDI – Area Database – Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
- ↑ Kamal, Nesrine (18 June 2016). "'Sushi' children defy Sunni-Shia divide". BBC News. Archived from the original on 10 October 2018. Retrieved 21 July 2018. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "تاریخچه حرم کاظمین" (in فارسی). kazem.ommolketab.ir. Archived from the original on 10 March 2018. Retrieved 15 June 2017. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ افتتاحية قبة الامام الجواد عليه السلام. www.aljawadain.org (in العربية). Archived from the original on 13 August 2009. Retrieved 27 April 2009. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ البدء بإعمار وتذهيب قبة الإمام الكاظم عليه السلام. www.aljawadain.org (in ae). Archived from the original on 13 August 2009. Retrieved 27 April 2009. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help)CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Iraqi Council of Ministers approved new provinces of Tuz Khurmatu and Tal Afar". Kurd Net. 21 January 2014. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
- ↑ See for example the following newspaper article from July 2015, which refers to Tuz Khurmatu as part of Saldin Governorate. "محتجون يتظاهرون في طوزخورماتو ضد القصف التركي" [Protestors demonstrate in Tuz Khurmatu]. شفق نيوز (in العربية). Retrieved 2015-07-30.
- ↑ Wright, Robin (2001). Sacred Rage: the wrath of militant Islam. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-3342-5. Search this book on
- ↑ "Babil Governorate Profile" (PDF). NGO Coordination Committee for Iraq (NCCI). 15 July 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 October 2015. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Kerbala Governorate Profile" (PDF). NCC Iraq. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
- ↑ USAID. "Climate Risk Profile: Iraq". Climatelinks. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
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