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Ramadi
Anbar, Iraq · Asia
About Ramadi
Ramadi sits on the route: 50 minutes from Al Fallūjah.
Ramadi is in Anbar, Iraq, with about 220,000 people. The nearest town is Al Fallūjah, about 45 km away.
Ramadi (Arabic: ٱلرَّمَادِي Ar-Ramādī; IPA: [r.ra.maː.diː]; also formerly rendered as Rumadiyah or Rumadiya) is a city in central Iraq, about 110 kilometers (68 mi) west of Baghdad and 50 kilometers (31 mi) west of Fallujah. It is the capital and largest city of Al Anbar Governorate which shares borders with Syria,Read more
Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. The city extends along the Euphrates which bisects Al Anbar. Founded in 1879, it was one of the towns established during the later period of Ottoman Iraq. By 2018 it had about 223,500 residents, near all of whom Sunni Arabs from the Dulaim tribal confederation. It lies in the Sunni Triangle of western Iraq. It is the most commonly proposed city to be the capital of a Sunni federal region in West Iraq.
Ramadi occupies a highly strategic site on the Euphrates and the road west into Syria and Jordan. This has made it a hub for trade and traffic, from which the city gained significant prosperity. Its position has meant that it has been fought over several times, during the two World Wars and again during the Iraq War and Iraqi insurgency. It was heavily damaged during the Iraq War, when it was a major focus for the insurgency against occupying United States forces. Following the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq in 2011, the city was contested by the Iraqi government and the extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and fell to ISIL in May 2015. On 28 December 2015, the Iraqi government declared, confirming media testimonies, that it had re-taken Ramadi, that government's first major military victory since its loss.
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Ramadi is in Anbar, Iraq, about 45 km from Al Fallūjah.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 223,500
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Iraq
- Region
- Anbar
- Timezone
- Asia/Baghdad
- Coordinates
- 33.4206, 43.3078
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