Talk:Government of Baghdad

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I'm having some trouble uploading a pdf that I created of the government structure. I uploaded the graphic to Wikimedia commons and then copied and the pasted the code from WP:Images. I verified that it had, in fact, uploaded. I thought maybe it was because my account wasn't four days old, and it still isn't working. All I get is this:



Would someone know where I'm going wrong?


 * A .pdf isn't an picture file.--Criticalthinker (talk) 11:37, 7 December 2008 (UTC)


 * It said in the documentation that you could upload PDFs. Cow cookie (talk) 13:23, 7 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Ok, changed the "Image" to "Media." Couldn't find out a way to get it to show the PDF in a thumbnail like with a JPG, but at least it's there now. Cow cookie (talk) 13:34, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Governorate and Amanat
I've asked this at other places, but does Baghdad Amanat exist appart from the Baghdad Governorate? If there is, indeed, both a municipal, local-level government for the city and a seperate province-level government, that needs to be made much more clear. The only difference with Baghdad Governorate seems to be that there are no other local-level governments (municipalities) outside of the boundaries of the municipality of Baghdad Amanat (city). I can't for the life of me find the size of Baghdad City in square kilometers. --Criticalthinker (talk) 11:37, 7 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I answered this at Talk:Administrative districts in Baghdad. There are other local level governments outside of the Amanat but still within the governorate. Taji and Mahmoudiya are the big ones. These have their own terms that are roughly equivalent to the divisions within Baghdad. Similar to large cities like Chicago or New York City, Baghdad is treated differently from a run-of-the mill Iraqi city. Yet it still falls under the Baghdad Governorate Council (for policy) and the Amanat (for services). According to Wikipedia, the city is 283.4 square miles while the governorate is 1,571.8 square miles. I tried to explain this briefly in the "Governorate and Amanat" section without getting into details better reserved for the Baghdad or Baghdad Governorate pages. I probably could have been clearer, though. If you could help me upload that graphic I mentioned in the above post, perhaps that would clear things up. Cow cookie (talk) 13:22, 7 December 2008 (UTC)


 * The 283.4 sq mi number is un-cited. Is there no way anyone could email or call them to find out?  Anyway, if the governorate covers policy for the whole of the province, and the amanat covers services for the city, it would be great if that was explicitly stated.  And, as with any city page, the city page for Baghdad should definitely make this distinction.  Most city pages are about city propers.  Since the governorate has it's own page, I think it's best if we all worked at seperating their content more.  BTW, I'm not sure what you're doing incorrectly with your picture.  Sorry. --Criticalthinker (talk) 08:18, 8 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I'll be down there shortly and will ask. Cow cookie (talk) 09:46, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Did you ever get around to doing this? --Criticalthinker (talk) 09:33, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I checked multiple places and got multiple answers. The one thing everyone said was that Iraq hasn't done a census in decades, so no one really knows - especially with all the movement because of sectarian fighting. Cow cookie —Preceding undated comment added 04:55, 23 March 2009 (UTC).
 * You mean that you got different answers concerning the square mileage of the city and governorate? --Criticalthinker (talk) 05:58, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Administrative and Municipal divisions of Baghdad Governorate
Editing this 8 years later after finally finding some sources on this from USAID. Baghdad Governorate is divided into aqḍyat (districts/counties), which are subdivided into nawahi (subdistrict/township). Baghdad is unique in that the urban part of the governorate has a Amanat (mayoralty) which is subdivided into kati' (boroughs) and hayy (neighborhoods). What I'm still unclear of is if the city boroughs and neighborhoods are statistically/administratively separate from the governorate districts and subdistricts, or if they exist "within" them. That is to ask if they exist on the same corresponding level or if they exists as layers. I'm also not sure what the beladiyat correspond to as I've seen it said that they are both the local government for the districts and the subdistricts as well as the divisions of urban Baghdad. --Criticalthinker (talk) 23:20, 17 March 2024 (UTC)