Baqubah

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Baqubah بَعْقُوبَة
Bridge on the Diyala River
Nickname:  (The house of Punishment) بيت العقوبة
Baqubah Baqubah location within Iraq
Coordinates: 33°45′N 44°38′E / 33.750°N 44.633°E / 33.750; 44.633
Country	Iraq
Governorate	Diyala Governorate
Population  (2024)[1]
• Total	366,000

Baqubah (Arabic: بَعْقُوبَة; BGN: Ba‘qūbah; also spelled Baquba and Baqouba) is the capital of Iraq's Diyala Governorate. The city is located some 50 km (31 mi) to the northeast of Baghdad, on the Diyala River. In 2003 it had an estimated population of some 280,000 people.

Baqubah served as a way station between Baghdad and Khorasan on the medieval Khorasan Road. During the Abbasid Caliphate, it was known for its date and fruit orchards, irrigated by the Nahrawan Canal. It is now known as the centre of Iraq's commercial orange groves.