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'''Mahmoudiyah''' (also transliterated '''Mahmudiyah, Mahmoudi''', or '''Mahmoodiyah''', prefixed usually with '''Al-''') is a [[Sunni]] Arab [[Iraq]]i rural city south of [[Baghdad]]. Known as the “Gateway to Baghdad,” the city's proximity to Baghdad made it central to the counterinsurgency campaign.
Mahmudiya District has approximately 550,000 inhabitants, about 92 percent of them [[Sunni]] [[Arabs]] and the rest mostly Shias. Most of the inhabitants live in rural areas.
==War crime incident==
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