Kut
Kūt, officially Al-Kut, also spelled Kutulamare, Kut al-Imara or Kut Al Amara, is a city in eastern Iraq, on the left bank of the Tigris River, about 160 kilometres south east of Baghdad, and the capital of the Wasit Governorate.
Kūt, officially Al-Kut, also spelled Kutulamare, Kut al-Imara or Kut Al Amara, is a city in eastern Iraq, on the left bank of the Tigris River, about 160 kilometres south east of Baghdad, and the capital of the Wasit Governorate. As of 2018 the estimated population is about 389,400 people. It is the capital of the province long known as Al Kut, but since the 1960s renamed Wasit.
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Getting to Kut
- Airports
- Al Najaf (NJF), 145 km · Baghdad / New Al Muthana Air Base (BGW), 171 km · Basra (BSR), 279 km
- Najaf → Kut1141 km · quickest by road, 27h 32m · $130–180
- Baghdad → Kut997 km · quickest by road, 25h 1m · $120–165
- Basra → Kut1383 km · quickest by road, 32h 2m · $160–220
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Kut
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 Kut. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Kut – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Kut
Kut is 1 km from Al-Kut, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.