1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Iraq
Compare this sourced profile of Abū Ghurayb, Iraq before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Abū Ghurayb—900,000, Asia/Baghdad, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Abū Ghurayb is GeoNames ID 100077. Its recorded administrative path is Abu Ghraib District → Baghdad → Iraq, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Abū Ghurayb occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2024-09-05; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Abū Ghurayb ranks 618 by recorded population. Inside the 11 selected Iraq entries it ranks 8; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 123. Its 900,000 population value is 0.74 times the 1,211,849 median for the country cohort and 1.00 times the 902,588 regional median. Abū Ghurayb sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Iraq entries. Abū Ghurayb's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Abū Ghurayb's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Baghdad at 20.452 km with 7,216,000 recorded people; Sadr City at 27.042 km with 1,211,849 recorded people; Karbala at 78.118 km with 1,218,732 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 57.666 km. Compared with Baghdad, Abū Ghurayb's recorded population is 0.12 times as large. Against Abū Ghurayb, Baghdad follows Al Rusafa → Baghdad → Iraq in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Iraq cohort, uses the shared Asia/Baghdad identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Abū Ghurayb's. Against Abū Ghurayb, Sadr City follows Baghdad → Iraq in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Iraq cohort, uses the shared Asia/Baghdad identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Abū Ghurayb's. Against Abū Ghurayb, Karbala follows Kerbala District → Karbala → Iraq in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Iraq cohort, uses the shared Asia/Baghdad identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Abū Ghurayb's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 267 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Abū Ghurayb's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 100077, the coordinate pair 33.3056 / 44.1848, country rank 8 of 11, and neighbor GeoNames 98182 at 20.452 km bind Abū Ghurayb to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Abū Ghurayb's reference point is 33.3056° north and 44.1848° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Baghdad is shared by 11 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Abū Ghurayb's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Abū Ghurayb's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Abū Ghurayb's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Abū Ghurayb, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Abū Ghurayb's closest other entries in this atlas are Baghdad (20.452 km), Sadr City (27.042 km), Karbala (78.118 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2024-09-05; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.