Abu Ghraib is a city in the Baghdad Governorate of Iraq, located just west of Baghdad's city center, or northwest of Baghdad International Airport. It has a population of 900,000 (2025). The old road to Jordan passes through Abu Ghraib. The government of Iraq created the city and Abu Ghraib District in 1944.
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The placename has been translated as "father of little crows" (in the sense of "place abundant in small crows"), but this translation has been suspected of being a folk etymology, and the name may be related to gharb ("west"), or ghariib ("strange, foreign") instead.
Abu Ghraib was known for the Abu Ghraib Infant Formula Plant, which Western intelligence agencies perennially claimed to be a biological weapons production facility. The plant was built in 1980 and painted with a dappled camouflage pattern during the Iran–Iraq War. It was bombed during the Gulf War, and the Iraqi government allowed CNN reporter Peter Arnett to film the destroyed building along with a conspicuous hand-painted sign that read, "baby milk factory".
From the Wikipedia article Abu Ghraib, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Towns around Abū Ghurayb
- Baghdad21 km E
- Sadr City27 km E
- Al Maḩmūdīyah32 km SE
- Al Fallūjah37 km W
- Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah49 km S
- Al-Musayab59 km S
- Ad Dujayl60 km N
- Habhab61 km NE
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