Abu Ghraib District

Worth seeing in and around Abu Ghraib District

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.

1. 01
   Maqbarat 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.

   3.6 km · Cemetery in Baghdad Governorate, Iraq · Wikipedia

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Getting to Abu Ghraib District

Airports

Baghdad / New Al Muthana Air Base (BGW), 16 km · Al Najaf (NJF), 148 km · Kirkuk (KIK), 243 km

• Najaf → Abu Ghraib District

  144 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · $16–22
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• Kirkuk → Abu Ghraib District

  244 km · quickest by road, 5h · $24–33
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• Arbil → Abu Ghraib District

  322 km · quickest by air, 6h 25m · $170–250
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No local-transport research exists yet for Abu Ghraib District

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 District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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