Abu Ghraib
Abu Ghraib is a city in the Baghdad Governorate of Iraq, located just west of Baghdad's city center, or northwest of Baghdad International Airport.
Abu Ghraib 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.
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Worth seeing in and around Abu Ghraib
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Maqbarat al-Karakh
Al-Karkh Islamic cemetery is a cemetery located in the Nasr Wal-Salam town of Abu Ghraib, Iraq. It is located on the road that links Baghdad to al-Anbar, and is widely visited by families of those interred there.
3.4 km · Cemetery in Baghdad Governorate, Iraq · Wikipedia
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Getting to Abu Ghraib
- Airports
- Baghdad / New Al Muthana Air Base (BGW), 16 km · Al Najaf (NJF), 148 km · Kirkuk (KIK), 244 km
- Najaf → Abu Ghraib143 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · $15–21
- Kirkuk → Abu Ghraib241 km · quickest by road, 4h 17m · $22–30
- Arbil → Abu Ghraib321 km · quickest by air, 5h 50m · $130–200
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No local-transport research exists yet for Abu Ghraib
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Abu Ghraib. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Abu Ghraib
Abu Ghraib is 11 km from Abū Ghurayb, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Abu Ghraib Districtdistrict in Baghdad Governorate, Iraq300 m
- Zaidonvillage in Al Anbar, Iraq8.8 km