1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Iraq
Compare this sourced profile of Sadr City, 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 Sadr City—1,211,849, 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 Sadr City is GeoNames ID 7802746. Its recorded administrative path is Baghdad → Iraq, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Sadr City 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 2026-04-16; 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, Sadr City ranks 434 by recorded population. Inside the 11 selected Iraq entries it ranks 6; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 89. Its 1,211,849 population value is 1.00 times the 1,211,849 median for the country cohort and 1.34 times the 902,588 regional median. Sadr City sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Iraq population cohort. Sadr City's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Sadr City's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Baghdad at 7.57 km with 7,216,000 recorded people; Abū Ghurayb at 27.042 km with 900,000 recorded people; Karbala at 94.969 km with 1,218,732 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 87.399 km. Compared with Baghdad, Sadr City's recorded population is 0.17 times as large. Against Sadr City, Baghdad follows Al Rusafa → 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 capital of a political entity rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Sadr City's. Against Sadr City, 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 populated place. Its recorded population is below Sadr City's. Against Sadr City, 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 populated place. Its recorded population is above Sadr City's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 115 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Sadr City'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 7802746, the coordinate pair 33.3889 / 44.4583, country rank 6 of 11, and neighbor GeoNames 98182 at 7.57 km bind Sadr City to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Sadr City's reference point is 33.3889° north and 44.4583° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Baghdad is shared by 11 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Sadr City's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Sadr City's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Sadr City's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Sadr City, 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
Sadr City's closest other entries in this atlas are Baghdad (7.57 km), Abū Ghurayb (27.042 km), Karbala (94.969 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-16; 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.