1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Iraq
Compare this sourced profile of Baghdad, 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 Baghdad—7,216,000, 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.
Wikidata's localized description: capital city of Iraq.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Baghdad is GeoNames ID 98182. Its recorded administrative path is Al Rusafa → Baghdad → Iraq, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Baghdad 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 2024-02-14; 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, Baghdad ranks 39 by recorded population. Inside the 11 selected Iraq entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 6. Its 7,216,000 population value is 5.95 times the 1,211,849 median for the country cohort and 7.99 times the 902,588 regional median. Baghdad falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Iraq population cohort. Baghdad's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Baghdad's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Sadr City at 7.57 km with 1,211,849 recorded people; Abū Ghurayb at 20.452 km with 900,000 recorded people; Karbala at 87.869 km with 1,218,732 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 80.299 km. Compared with Sadr City, Baghdad's recorded population is 5.95 times as large. Against Baghdad, 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 capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Baghdad's. Against Baghdad, Abū Ghurayb follows Abu Ghraib District → Baghdad → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Baghdad's. Against Baghdad, 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 capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Baghdad's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 115 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Baghdad's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth 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 98182, the coordinate pair 33.3406 / 44.4009, country rank 1 of 11, and neighbor GeoNames 7802746 at 7.57 km bind Baghdad to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Baghdad's reference point is 33.3406° north and 44.4009° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Baghdad is shared by 11 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Baghdad's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Baghdad's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Baghdad's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Baghdad, 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
Baghdad's closest other entries in this atlas are Sadr City (7.57 km), Abū Ghurayb (20.452 km), Karbala (87.869 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 2024-02-14; 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.