Talk:List of largest cities of Iraq

Tables
Tables of info on cities, states or whatever - containing columns with numbers (like population, population density, GDP etc.) are sorted incorrectly.

Can someone PLEASE implement integer-sort on number info? alphanumeric-sorts are messed up! Info is NOT in order. You have to eye the entire scope to fish out the, say top ten cities by population, manually. This is fine in a 20 set list, but tedious in a 50 or 200 list.

Try cites sorted alphanumerical by population. See how the numbers are arranged out of order? The 850,000s are mixed with the 80,000s and 8,000s AND only then to be followed by the 700.000s ...

Hope someone bright can fix this in a general all-around script! thank you!

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These figures are grossly exaggerated numbers. The total on this list amount to over 29 million. The entire country of Iraq had less than this for its total population in 2008! Where do these, so-called "sources" come up with their ludicrous estimates, is anyone's guess. (The source for these figures is found in World Gazetteer, "Iraq: largest cities and towns and statistics of their population," as retrieved on 2008-06-05) The folks at World Gazetteer have not even bothered to add up their own figures and see what the totals are. Let us remember, in the meantime, that tge Iraqi population is over a third rural, and around 10% living in exile in foreign countries at present (AD 2010)

I wished the Wiki editors would occasionally bother to test these figures before allowing them to be posted here. izady —Preceding unsigned comment added by Izady (talk • contribs) 17:32, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

City/Municipal/Local Government
I've asked others this question, but to no answer. Do cities in Iraq has municipal/local government that overlay the administrative districts and subdistricts of the country, or are they are administrative divisions in their own right apart from districts and sub-districts? There needs to be made mention of that on this page and the main article for Iraq. --Criticalthinker (talk) 03:19, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

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Leo1pard (talk) 09:46, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Governorate Capital Populations
I've noticed some of the comments above mentioning the inaccuracy of the populations, and I think I figured out the issue. I first noticed this with Tikrit vs. the Saladin governorate, but it appears that for the governorate capitals, the populations listed are populations for that entire governorate, rather than just the city itself. I feel like this...doesn't really make much sense. It's not just for smaller governorates either — for example, the listed 2018 population for Ramadi is actually the 2018 population for the entire Anbar governorate. The individual page for Ramadi lists the 2018 population estimate for as 223,500. At first I thought it was just the 2018 number but quickly realized that it's all four.

What I would like to do is go in and change this myself. I plan on switching the source over to citypopulation.de, as it's fairly reliable and the numbers for cities such as Ramadi, Nasiriyah, and Hillah match up to their Wiki pages, other than the fact that the Wikipedia numbers are rounded to the nearest hundredth. However, citypopulation.de does not include city data from the 1997 census, so I'm unsure of how to precede. I don't know whether or not the city data from 1997 exists, but from what I can find, the full 1997 census results are only available through IPUMS. It's only accessible with an account, and to make an account you have to describe the research project you're doing, and that feels like a lot of work just to update this page.

Personally, I'd advocate for removing the 1997 census column, and just having the populations listed from 1987, 2009, and 2018. However, as that's a fairly big change, I didn't want to just change it myself without consulting the talk page first. If it goes a while (maybe a month or something) after I post this and no one replies, I'll probably just go ahead and do it anyway, but I want to give people a chance to express their thoughts. TempestSounds (talk) 01:27, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

I have gone ahead and re-done this page as described above. Citypopulation.de admittedly isn't a perfect source — it combines cities and towns with some districts or sub-districts, so it would be great to find a source that's a bit more consistent. However, it's much more reliable than whatever source we had before, so I think it makes sense to use it for now. I'll be going through some of the individual city pages in an attempt to make this all line up — maybe I'll find a better source somewhere in that process. TempestSounds (talk) 02:25, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

Duplication—almost
There are two tables that at first glance appear to be duplicates. But they disagree on rank, population, and which are in the top ten. Second one even lists the ruins of Babylon as having a population of two million! 伟思礼 (talk) 22:05, 20 September 2023 (UTC)


 * I don’t know whether they are reliable, but there are 2023 population values at
 * https://www.geonames.org/IQ/largest-cities-in-iraq.html
 * https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/cities/iraq
 * 伟思礼 (talk) 22:33, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
 * They're accurate Kirkukturk3 (talk) 16:39, 9 January 2024 (UTC)