"Baghdad was the largest city in the world for much of the Abbasid era during the Islamic Golden Age, peaking at a population of more than ...
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a million. The city was largely destroyed at the hands of the Mongol Empire in 1258, resulting in a decline that would linger through many centuries due to frequent plagues and multiple successive empires. With the recognition of Iraq as an independent state (formerly the British Mandate of Mesopotamia) in 1932, Baghdad gradually regained some of its former prominence as a significant center of Arabic culture, with a population variously estimated at 6 or over 7 million.[note 1]" - (en.wikipedia.org 30.01.2020)
- Latitude33.349998474121
- Longitude44.416667938232
- Population7216000
