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Babylon Governorate is a region in Iraq located south of Baghdad that includes the ancient city of Karbala, an important religious site for Shia Muslims. It matters historically and culturally as a center of Islamic pilgrimage and learning, and economically as part of Iraq's broader administrative and geographic landscape.
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Babylon Governorate or Babil Province (Arabic: محافظة بابل Muḥāfaẓa Bābil) is a governorate in central Iraq. It has an area of 5,119 square kilometres (1,976 sq mi), The population in Babil for 2023 is 1,820,700. The provincial capital is the city of Hillah, which lies opposite the ancient city of Babylon (بابل), on the Euphrates river.
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