Al Qaim District

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Al Qaim District is an administrative district in Iraq’s Al Anbar Governorate, located along the Euphrates River near the Syrian border and known for its strategic border town of Al Qaim.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Al Qaim District canonical 2

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Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf district
borderCrossingConnectsTo Abu Kamal
Deir ez-Zor Governorate
linked to: Deir ez-Zor
borderCrossingPoint Al Qaim border crossing
country Iraq
countrySubdivisionOf Iraq
governorateCapital Ramadi
linked to: Al-Ramadi
hasBorderWith Syria
hasCapital Al Qaim
hasConflictHistory coalition operations against ISIL
hasEconomicActivity agriculture along Euphrates
cross-border trade
hasHistoricalEvent ISIL insurgency and recapture by Iraqi forces
Iraq War military operations
hasMajorSettlement Al Obaidi
Al Qaim
Husaybah
linked to: Al Qaim

Rummana
hasNearbyCountry Syrian Arab Republic
linked to: Syria
hasPart Al Qaim
hasSecurityConcern militant cross-border movement
smuggling routes
hasTransportInfrastructure Al Qaim–Abu Kamal border crossing
roads along Euphrates valley
languageUsed Arabic
locatedIn western Iraq
locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Al Anbar
linked to: Anbar Governorate

Al Anbar Governorate
locatedInDesertRegion Syrian Desert fringe
locatedInRegion Al Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia)
linked to: Upper Mesopotamia
locatedInValley Euphrates valley
linked to: Euphrates
locatedNear Syrian border
locatedOn Euphrates River
linked to: Euphrates
locatedWestOf Baghdad
Ramadi
linked to: Al-Ramadi
partOf Al Anbar Governorate
partOfGeopoliticalRegion Sunni Arab-majority areas of Iraq
partOfHistoricalRegion Mesopotamia
river Euphrates
strategicImportance border trade route
military significance
timeZone Arabia Standard Time
utcOffset +3

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Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Al Qaim partOf Al Qaim District
Al Qaim governorateCapitalOf Al Qaim District