Ibrahimia

Ibrahimia (Arabic: الإبراهيمية al-ibrāhīmiyah), officially the Ibrahimia Capital District (منطقة العاصمة للإبراهيمية minṭaqat al-‘āṣimah lil-ibrāhīmiyah), is the 5th most populous city in the Arab Union and seat of the federal government. As the federal capital city, it is the only territory of the Arab Union not forming part of any member republic, and is administered directly by the federal government, although since 2000 the city has had its own elected municipal government, with powers of self-government delegated to it by the Arab Congress via devolution. The city is bounded to the north by the Sea of Galilee, to the northeast by the Syrian city of Tel Kazir, to the east by the Jordanian city of Adasiya, to the south by the River Jordan, and to the west by the Palestinian city of Kinneret.

As of June 2020, Ibrahimia has an estimated population (within the federal capital district proper) of 2.32 million. An additional estimated 1.56 million people live in the immediate metropolitan area. Together with the cities of Damascus in Syria and Irbid in Jordan, Ibrahimia's metropolitan area also forms the west-central portion of the larger Ibrahimia–Damascus–Irbid Megalopolis; home to over 16 million people, it is the second largest conurbation in the Arab Union, after the Nile Delta Megalopolis centred on Cairo.

Ibrahimia was incorporated as a municipality on 1 June 1994, the first step in the planned construction of a new, neutral seat for the federal government, which was entirely funded and overseen by the Ministry of Public Administration. Following the planned city's completion in June 1999, the Palestinian Arab Republic, in which the incorporated municipality was located, ceded the territory to the federal government, creating the first (and to date only) federal district in the Union of Arab Republics; as the formerly Palestinian territory was located on the border with Syria and Jordan, the new federal capital found itself situated roughly evenly between the member republics of Palestine, Syria and Jordan. While all branches of government have their headquarters in Ibrahimia proper, many subordinate agencies and other national institutions are located in the surrounding suburbs in Palestine, Syria or Jordan. As such, the immediate metropolitan area is often informally known as the Capital Region.