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Best places to visit in Iraq
Iraq has 112 places on BucketList (59 historical sites, 32 landmarks, 12 museums). These are the 24 most popular. Rate the ones you have been to, and save the rest to your bucket list.
Top places in Iraq
- BaghdadCityCapital city of Iraq
- BabylonHistorical SiteCapital city of Babylonia and an archaeological site in modern-day Iraq
- SamarraHistorical SiteCity in Iraq
- NinevehHistorical SiteAncient Assyrian city, capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
- UrHistorical SiteAncient Mesopotamian city-state
- AssurHistorical SiteArchaeological site in Iraq, former capital of Assyria
- CtesiphonHistorical SiteCapital of the Iranian empire in the Parthian and Sasanian eras in present Iraq
- UrukHistorical SiteAncient city of Sumer and Babylonia
- NippurHistorical SiteAncient city in modern day Iraq
- HatraHistorical SiteAncient city in northern Iraq
- NimrudHistorical SiteAncient Assyrian city
- EriduHistorical SiteArchaeological site in Iraq
- Imam Ali MosqueLandmarkHoly shrine in Iraq
- Dur-SharrukinHistorical SiteAssyrian capital in the time of Sargon II
- IsinHistorical SiteAncient city in Mesopotamia
- LarsaHistorical SiteHuman settlement
- SipparHistorical SiteArchaeological site in Iraq
- UmmaHistorical SiteAncient Human Settlement
- Great Mosque of SamarraNatural SiteMosque in Iraq
- SeleuciaHistorical SiteCapital of the Seleucid Empire
- Shanidar CaveHistorical SiteArchaeological site
- EshnunnaHistorical SiteSumerian city-state
- ShuruppakHistorical SiteArchaeological site in Iraq
- JarmoHistorical SiteArcheological site located in northern Iraq
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