Al Anbar Governorate

Anbar Governorate محافظة الأنبار Anbar Province
Governorate
Coordinates: 32°54′N 41°36′E / 32.900°N 41.600°E / 32.900; 41.600
Country	Iraq
Capital	Ramadi
Government
• Governor	Suhaib al-Rawi[1]
Area
• Total	138,501 km2 (53,476 sq mi)
Population  (July 2017 estimate)[2]
• Total	1,500,000
• Density	11/km2 (28/sq mi)

Al Anbar (Arabic: الأنبار; al-’Anbār or Anbar) is a Western Region of Iraq. The largest province in Iraq by area, it shares borders with Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. Al Anbar is overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim Arab. Its capital is Ar Ramadi.

The name of the province is from the Arabic انبار, ’Anbār, and means "granaries," as this region was the primary entrepot on the western borders of Lakhmid Kingdom. The famous Sunni theologian Abu Hanifa an-Nu‘man, who developed Hanafi, one of the Sunni Madh'habs (schools of thought) is associated with this region.

Before 1976 the province was known as Ramadi; before 1962, it was known as Dulaim.^[3]

1. ↑ Omar Sattar (5 December 2016). "Has political crisis in Iraq's Anbar reached a dead end?". Al-Monitor. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
2. ↑ Citypopulation.de
3. ↑ "Provinces of Iraq". Administrative Divisions of Countries ("Statoids"). Retrieved 2007-06-18.