Al-Shu'ala is a lower middle class district of
Baghdad
Baghdad ( or ; , ) is the capital and List of largest cities of Iraq, largest city of Iraq, located along the Tigris in the central part of the country. With a population exceeding 7 million, it ranks among the List of largest cities in the A ...
, Iraq.
It is heavily populated and its inhabitants are
working class
The working class is a subset of employees who are compensated with wage or salary-based contracts, whose exact membership varies from definition to definition. Members of the working class rely primarily upon earnings from wage labour. Most c ...
families of limited income. There is a
Shiite
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majority of nearly 99%.
Al-Shu'ala features a canal that stretches from the far east of the city to the west called al Mashrou'(المشروع) or "the project".
Administrative Sectors
Al-Shu'ala is divided into 27 administrative sectors. Some of the most notable among them include:
* Al-Shu'ala (الشعلة)
* Al-Rahmaniyya (الرحمانية)
* Al-Dawanim (الدوانم)
* Um Najm (أم نجم)
* Al-Jawadain (الجوادين)
* Al-Salamiyat (السلاميات)
* Al-Sabiyat (الصابيات)
* Al-Dahna (الدهنة)
* Al-Khateeb (الخطيب)
References
Shu'ala
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