Location of Karbala City

Ahlam Hassan Jassim Abdul Karim
Supervised by Asst. Prof. Dr. Fawaz Hamdan Abboud

Karbala city is located in the southwest of Baghdad city at a distance of (105) km and the governorate is linked to the governorates of Baghdad, Babylon, Najaf and Qadisiyah and by many roads, and is irrigated by the Husseiniya River, which branches off from the Euphrates River and is (29) km long. Karbala city emerged significantly after the martyrdom of Hussein (peace be upon him) and his righteous companions in the year (61) AH, and the first tourist festival was held in it, which was the first Al-Akhdar Tourist Festival, on 3/3/1982.
The governorate is administratively composed of three districts and five administrative units between a district center and a sub-district, as follows:

1- Karbala District: represented by the Karbala District Center with an area of (2397) km2 and Al-Hussainiya Sub-district with an area of (334) km2, thus the district area is (2731) km2.

2- Al-Hindiya District: represented by the Al-Hindiya District Center with an area of (134) km2 and Al-Jadwal Al-Gharbi Sub-district with an area of (213) km2, thus the district area is (347) km2.

3- Ain Al-Tamr District: represented by the Ain Al-Tamr District Center with an area of (1956) km2.

The location of Karbala city is of great importance compared to the locations of other cities in Iraq due to the similarity of its climatic conditions with many of the surrounding governorates, and it is also located within the most densely populated regions.a