NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Babil Governorate

Babil (Arabic: ???? ) is a province in Iraq. It has an area of 6,468 km², with an estimated population of 1,751,900 people in 2003. province of Iraq File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Arabic (; , less formally, ) is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The provincial capital is the town of al Hillah. The city Al Musayyib and the ancient ruins of Babylon (Babil, after which the region is named) are also in the province. Al Hillah (Arabic: Ø§Ù„ØÙ„Ø©) is a city in central Iraq on the river Euphrates, 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad, with an estimated population of 364,700 in 1998. ... Babylon is the Greek variant of Akkadian Babilu, an ancient city in Mesopotamia (Location: 32Â°32â€²11â€³N, 44Â°25â€²15â€³E, modern Al Hillah, Iraq). ...

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