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This article lists neighborhoods and the nine administrative districts within 50 km of Baghdad, Iraq.
The order is not alphabetical, but is instead arranged according to whether the neighborhood is east or west of the Tigris and then grouped roughly by north–south order. Place names may be affected by differences in translation of Arabic to English. If sourced information on the location was not available, the neighborhood is grouped in the unknown section in alphabetical order. According to a report published by the New York Times on June 3, 2007, there are 457 distinct neighborhoods in Baghdad.
West of the Tigris
Kadhimiya District
Al-Kadhimya neighborhood
Al-Shu'ala
Utafiyah
Hurriya City
Karkh District
Green Zone
Mansour district
Al-Gazaliyah
Iskan
Washash
Al-Adel
Al-Jami'a
Al-Khadhraa
Mansour neighbourhood
Al-A'amiriya (Amiriya)
Yarmouk
Al Rashid District
Hayy Al-A'amel (Amel or Amil): Just east of Jihad and west of Bayya’ along Baghdad Airport Road.
Al-Baya' (Baiyaa): East of Amil along Baghdad Airport Road.
Al-Jihad: Just east of Furat and west of Amil along Baghdad Airport Road,
Al-Shurtta (al-Shurta): A "middle- to working-class pocket in the dusty far west of Baghdad"
Muwasalat and Shurta Al-Khamsa neighborhood, just south of Bayya’
Swaib
Al-Saydiya
Al-Dora: largest neighborhood in the city
Al-Jadriyah (Baghdad)
Furat: Just east of Baghdad International Airport along Baghdad Airport Road
East of the Tigris
Adhamiyah District
Sha'ab City
Shaab-Ur: North of Sadr City
Hayy Ur
Al-Wazireya (Waziriyah)
Adhamiyah neighborhood
Just outside the Baghdad Wall from Adhamiyah are several smaller neighborhoods
Dilfiya
Maghrib
Kasra
Qahira
Sulaikh
Saba Abkar
Raghiba Khatoun area of Adhamiya
Ilaam
Sadr City
Rusafa District
Bab Al-Moatham
Fadhil: Sunni Arab neighborhood of multistory tenements along the east bank of the Tigris River, the oldest neighborhood in Baghdad
Sheikh Omar, near Fadhil
Sadriya
Shorja: this marketplace, established during the Abbasid period about 750 CE, is the city's oldest
Bab Al-Sharqi : Mixed area.
Al-Sa'adoon
Haydar-Khana: One of the oldest neighborhoods of Baghdad and contains the ancient Haydar-Khana Mosque.
New Baghdad (Baghdad Al-Jadida) or 9 Nissan District
Zayouna: Mixed neighborhood.
Karrada (Karradah) District
Al-Za'franiya: A semi-rural area on the outskirts of Baghdad squeezed between the Diyala and the Tigris rivers in south-eastern Baghdad.
Unknown
Khalis, northeast of Baghdad
Palestine Street, Aqari district,
Triangle of Death (Iraq)
Yusufiyah—40 km south of Baghdad
Mahmoudiyah 40 km south of Baghdad—Known as the “Gateway to Baghdad,”
Lutifiyah area of southwest Baghdad
Mashada, 25 miles north of Baghdad
Risafi—in northwestern Baghdad
Taji, Iraq (Arabic: تاجي) is an area approximately 20 miles north of Baghdad, and the site of a large U.S.-controlled military base.
Kamaliya—in southeastern Baghdad
Al-Salam, also called Tobchi—in south Al-Hurriya
See also
Administrative districts in Baghdad