Az Zubayr

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Az Zubayr

Total population

370,000

Elevation11 m

WeatherAvg high 93.4°F

Coordinates30.39°, 47.70°

Demographic figures from Central Statistical Organization (Iraq). Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Az Zubayr is a city in and the capital of Al-Zubayr District, part of the Basra Governorate of Iraq. The city is just south of Basra.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Climate

10-year averages from ERA5 reanalysis (Open-Meteo).

Notable people from here

S

Sa'ad Al-Faqih

A Saudi doctor and member of the Muslim Brotherhood

A

Abdullah al-Nuri

Iraqi-Kuwaiti Islamic scholar and poet

N

Nawaf Falah

Iraqi footballer

Amir Alhammoud

Saudi Arabian film director

Abdulkareem Abdulqadir

Kuwaiti singer

ʻAbd Allāh ʻUqayl

researcher

Y

Yaʿqūb ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb Bā Ḥusayn

Saudi university teacher

F

Fatima al-Fudayliya

19th-century Islamic scholar

A

Abdullatif AlHumaidan

Saudi historian

A

Abdul Latif Al-Mandil

Iraqi politician and a member of the Senate in the royal era

D

Dhari Al-Saadoon

Iraqi politician

Y

Yusuf ibn Rashed Al Sheikh Mubarak

Saudi Arabian Islamic jurist and historian

N

Najeeb al-Mana

Iraqi literary critic

A

Abdullah Bin Ibrahim Alghemlas

Iraqi historian from Zubair City

K

Khaled Pasha al-Oun

Sheikh of Zubair in Ottoman Iraq

M

Muhammad Sulaiman al-Aqeel

Iraqi merchant and politician

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Iraq

• Minooshahr
  30.8 mi away
• Arwandkenar
  55.9 mi away · pop. 11,173
• Hoveyzeh
  77.2 mi away · pop. 19,481
• Bandar-e Emam Khomeyni
  81.4 mi away
• Susangerd
  85.5 mi away · pop. 51,431
• Hamidieh
  86.9 mi away · pop. 22,057
• Bostan
  93.4 mi away · pop. 8,476
• Omidieh
  121.6 mi away · pop. 92,335
• Ramhormoz
  128.2 mi away · pop. 74,285
• Aghajari
  128.3 mi away · pop. 11,912
• Shush
  129.1 mi away · pop. 77,148
• Haftkel
  130.5 mi away · pop. 15,802

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Az Zubayr

Search results from Open Library.

Gallery

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