1947, Population of major cities and towns of Iraq

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Size	Cities grouped according to size*	Population	Percent of total population (4,816,185)	Cumulative percent of total population	Percent of urban population (1,624,297)	Cumulative percent of urban population
More than 150,000		466,783	9.7	9.7	28.7	28.7
...	Baghdad**	466,783	9.7	...	28.7	...
50,000 - 150,000		359,729	7.5	17.2	22.1	50.9
...	Mosul	133,625	2.8	...	8.2	...
...	Basra	101,535	2.1	...	6.3	...
...	Kirkuk	68,308	1.4	...	4.2	...
...	Najaf (Karbala	56,261	1.2	...	3.5	...
20,000 - 50,000		250,894	5.2	22.4	15.4	66.3
...	Kazimain (Baghdad)	48,676	1.0	...	3.0	...
...	Karbala	44,150	0.9	...	2.7	...
...	Amara	36,907	0.8	...	2.3	...
...	Hilla	36,577	0.8	...	2.3	...
...	Sulaimaniya	33,510	0.7	...	2.1	...
...	Arbil	27,036	0.6	...	1.7	...
...	Nasariya (Muntafiq)	24,038	0.5	...	1.5	...
10,000 - 20,000		167,398	3.5	25.8	10.3	76.6
...	Tal Afar (Mosul)	19,951	0.4	...	1.2	...
...	Diwaniya	19,878	0.4	...	1.2	...
...	Zubair (Basra)	17,884	0.4	...	1.1	...
...	Kut	16,237	0.3	...	1.0	...
...	Samawa (Diwaniya)	15,292	0.3	...	0.9	...
...	Kufa (Karbala)	13,700	0.3	...	0.8	...
...	Abul Khasib (Basra)	11,598	0.2	...	0.7	...
...	Hindiya (Hilla)	11,077	0.2	...	0.7	...
...	Falluja (Dulaim)	10,981	0.2	...	0.7	...
...	Ba'quba (Diyala)	10,511	0.2	...	0.6	...
...	Hai (Kut)	10,199	0.2	...	0.6	...
...	Khanaqin (Diyala)	10,090	0.2	...	0.6	...
Total		1,244,804	...	...	...	...

Table 11
Population of Major Cities and Towns of Iraq, 1947
Source: Census of 1947
* Name of liwa given if different from name of town
** Baghdad city includes Old City and west-bank settlement (352,137), Urban A'zamiya, northern suburb (58,697), and Urban Karrada, southern suburb (55,949).