Sadr City
Sadr City (Arabic: مدينة الصدر, romanized: Madīnat aṣ-Ṣadr), formerly known as Al-Thawra (Arabic: الثورة, romanized: aṯ-Ṯawra) and Saddam City (Arabic: مدينة صدام, romanized: Madīnat Ṣaddām), is a suburb district of the city of Baghdad, Iraq. It was built in 1959 by Prime Minister Abdul Karim Qassim and later unofficially renamed Sadr City after Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr.
Sadr City
مدينة الصدر (Madīnat aṣ-Ṣadr) | |
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District of Baghdad | |
Sadr City Al-A'amiriya in Iraq | |
| Coordinates: 33°23′20″N 44°27′30″E | |
| Country | Iraq |
| Governorate | Baghdad Governorate |
| City | Baghdad |
| Area | |
| • Total | 13 km2 (5 sq mi) |
| Population (2018) | |
| • Total | 1,211,849 |
Sadr City – or more accurately Thawra District (Arabic: حيّ الثورة, romanized: Ḥayy ath-Thawra) – is one of nine administrative districts in Baghdad. A public housing project neglected by Saddam Hussein, Sadr City holds around 1 million residents.
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