Baghdad Governorate ( ar, محافظة بغداد ''Muḥāfaẓät Baġdād''), also known as the Baghdad Province, is the capital
governorate of
Iraq
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. It includes the capital
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...
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
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. 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
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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: Atwan Al Atwani
* Provincial Council Chairman (PCC): Riyadh Al Adhadh
Districts
* Adhamiyah
* Karkh
* Karrada
* Kadhimiya
* Mansour district, Mansour
* Sadr City
* Al-Rashid, Baghdad, Al-Rashid
* Al-Rusafa, Iraq, Al-Rusafa
* New Baghdad
Demographics
See also
*
References
External links
http://www.humanitarianinfo.org/Baghdad-Denver Region Partnership
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Baghdad Governorate,
Governorates of Iraq