Karbala City Location

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. The city of Karbala has emerged significantly after the martyrdom of Hussein (peace be upon him) and his righteous companions in the year (61) AH. The first tourist festival was held in it, which was the first Al-Akhdar Tourism Festival on 3/3/1982 (1).
The governorate is also administratively composed of three districts and five administrative units between a district center and a sub-district, as follows:
1- Karbala District: It is represented by the Karbala District Center, with an area of (2397) km2 and the Husseiniya Sub-district, with an area of (334) km2, and thus the area of the district is (2731) km2.

2- Al-Hindiyah District: It is represented by the center of Al-Hindiyah District and its area is (134) km2 and the Al-Jadwal Al-Gharbi District and its area is (213) km2, thus the area of the district is (347) km2.

3- Ain Al-Tamr District: It is represented by the center of Ain Al-Tamr District and its area is (1956) km2 (2).

The location of the city of Karbala has 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 (3).