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Abu Ghraib is a human settlement located in the Baghdad Governorate of Iraq. It sits at an elevation of 29 meters above sea level and is situated in the UTC+03:00 time zone. The settlement has a population of 189,000.
The area is classified as a residential zone. Current weather conditions in the location include a temperature of 24 degrees, humidity of 31 percent, pressure of 1013, and wind speed of 3.6.
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Place details
- Locality
- أبو غريب
- Region
- محافظة بغداد
- Country
- العراق
- Population
- 900,000
- Timezone
- Asia/Baghdad
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Key facts
- Country
- Iraq
- Governorate
- Baghdad Governorate
- Total
- 900,000
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Iraq
- Located in
- Baghdad Governorate
- Population
- 189000
- Elevation
- 29
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
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- Commons category
- Abu Ghraib
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Encyclopedic overview
Abu Ghraib (/ˈɑːbuː ˈɡrɛb/ or /ˈɡreɪb/; Arabic: أبو غريب, romanized: Abū Ghurayb ) is a city in the Baghdad Governorate of Iraq, located just west of Baghdad's city center, or northwest of Baghdad International Airport. It has a population of 900,000 (2025). The old road to Jordan passes through Abu Ghraib. The government of Iraq created the city and Abu Ghraib District in 1944.
The placename has been translated as "father of little crows" (in the sense of "place abundant in small crows"), but this translation has been suspected of being a folk etymology, and the name may be related to gharb ("west"), or ghariib ("strange, foreign") instead.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Abu Ghraib” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.