List of neighborhoods and districts in Baghdad

This article lists neighborhoods and the nine administrative districts within 50km of Baghdad, Iraq.

The order is not alphabetical, but is instead arranged according to whether the neighborhood is east or west of the Tigris and then grouped roughly by north-south order. Place names may be affected by differences in translation of Arabic to English. If sourced information on the location was not available, the neighborhood is grouped in the unknown section in alphabetical order. According to a report published by the New York times on June 3, 2007, there are 457 distinct neighborhoods in Baghdad. [1]

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Baghdad International Airport

West of the Tigris

• Al-Kadhimya: Shiite majority in the north.
• Amiriyah (neighborhood) upper class Sunni area ft Amiriyah shelter
• Hurriya City: Shiite majority, Sunni presence.
• Green Zone
• Al-Mansour: Mixed area,
• Yarmouk (Baghdad) upmarket Sunni area between airport and Green Zone
• Rasheed district
  • Furat -- just east of Baghdad International Airport along Baghdad Airport Road
  • Jihad ( Hayy Al-Jihad (Bagdad)): district, just east of Furat and west of Amil along Baghdad Airport Road,mixed middle-class area
  • Amil ( Hayy Al-Amil): Mixed area just east of Jihad and west of Bayya’ along Baghdad Airport Road.
  • Al-Baya' (Bayaa’ , Baiyaa) : district east of Amil along Baghdad Airport Road. Shiite majority, Sunni presence.
  • Dora (Al Dura) Sunni majority neighboorhood

• Al-Shurtta (al-Shurta) district, south-western Baghdad, a "middle- to working-class pocket in the dusty far west of Baghdad" [2]

• Saidya once middle-class mixed district in southwest Baghdad

East of the Tigris

• Adhamiyah: Sunni majority island in Shia-dominated East Bagdad, Shiite presence; right at the Tigris

• • Just outside the Baghdad wall from Adhamiyah are several smaller neighborhoods [3]
    • Dilfiya
    • Maghrib
    • Kasra
    • Qahira
    • Sulaikh
    • Raghiba Khatoun area of Adhamiya
    • Ilaam

• Shaab-Ur north of Sadr City

• Sadr City: Almost exclusively Shiite.

• Market Disctrict at the Tigris banks, central,

• Baghdad Al-Jadida(New Baghdad): Shiite majority, Christian presence.

• Karrada (Karradah): Shiite majority, Christian presence.

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• Al-Jadriya Area : Mixed area.

• Zayouna: Mixed neighborhood.

• Al-Sa'adoon area : Mixed area.
• Bab Al-Moatham : Sunni majority, shiite presence.
• Bab Al-Sharqi : Mixed area.

• • Zafaraniya a semi-rural area on the outskirts of Baghdad squeezed between the Diyala and the Tigris rivers in south Eastern Baghdad [4]
  • Muwasalat and Shurta Al-Khamsa districts, just south of Bayya’
• Al-Saydiya : Sunni majority, Shiite presence.
• Al-A'amiriya (Amiriya) : Sunni majority, Shiite presence.
• Al-Shu'ala: Almost exclusively Shiite.
• Al-Ghazaliya: Sunni majority, Shiite presence.
• Al-Za'franiya: Shiite majority, Sunni presence.
• Hayy Ur: Almost exclusively Shiite.
• Sha'ab City: Shiite majority, Sunni presence.

• Al-Adel: Sunni majority, Shiite presence.
• Al:Khadhraa: Sunni majority, Shiite presence.

• Hayy Al-A'amel (Amel) : Shiite majority, Sunni presence.
• Utafiyah
• Waziriyah

• Fadhil -- a Sunni Arab neighborhood of multistory tenements along the east bank of the Tigris River LA Times
  • Sheikh Omar, near Fadhil [5]
• Sadriya
• Khalis, northeast of Baghdad

• Palestine Street, Aqari district,
• Triangle of Death (Iraq)
  • Yusufiyah -- 40 km south of Baghdad
  • Mahmoudiyah 40 km south of Baghdad -- Known as the “Gateway to Baghdad,”
  • Lutifiyah area of southwest Baghdad

• Mashada, 25 miles north of Baghdad [6] [7]
• Risafi -- in northwestern Baghdad [8]
• Shorja -- Baghdad's oldest market [9]
• Iskan neighborhood in western Baghdad. largely Shiite, but the students at College of Economic Sciences are religiously mixed, including Shiites, Sunnis and some Christians. [10]
• Taji, Iraq (Arabic: تاجي) is an area approximately 20 miles north of Baghdad, and the site of a large U.S.-controlled military base.
• Kamaliya -- in southeastern Baghdad [11] [12]
• Washash -- a "violent" [13] "Baghdad slum on the western side of the Tigris" according to Time magazine. [14]
• Al-Salam -- in south Alhurria