Talk:Administrative divisions of Iraq

Nahya, Hay and Mahalla
I've been pushing for someone who can read Arabic to do this for years, but the administratie divisions of Iraq need to really be fleshed out and made more clear. I realize the country isn't fully operating at all levels of government, but we can at least add how they theoretically function. Aside from the governorates and districts, I've been able to now find that there are subdistricts (nahya) which are further divided into boroughs (hay) in urban areas and county districts (mukata'a) in rural areas, which themselves can be divided into neighborhoods (mahallah) in urban boroughs and villages (qarya) in the rural county districts. If I can find this, I'm sure that someone with proficiency in Arabic can find out more about this and build this page up (and the pages for the corresponding divisions) in the same way most other page that deal with country administrative divisions do. It also needs to be made clear which level, here, is the local/municipal government level. I imagine it's the boroughs and villages level, but I can find very little information on that. And, aside from the special case of Baghdad, I'm not exactly sure how the other larger cities of the country (Mosul, Basra, etc...) are organized, at which level they are governed. In many countries, large cities can be organized/governed at a higher level. I imagine in Iraq that at least some of the cities are governed as a municipality all the way up to the subdistrict level at least. I have a good idea this is how the Baghdad is governed where the municipalities can include multiple subdistricts. --Criticalthinker (talk) 14:26, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Anyone? --Criticalthinker (talk) 02:10, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

Map of subdivisions
I guess this map could be posted here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IraqAdministrativeMap.png Tomislav Addai (talk) 16:19, 29 July 2022 (UTC)