Baghdad

Baghdad is the capital of the Iraqi Arab Republic and the second-most populous city in the Arab Union, after Cairo. Administered as a federal city directly by the government of the Arab Union, a majority of the city's metropolitan area (all but the city proper) lay outside the federal capital district and within the jurisdiction of the surrounding Iraqi Arab Republic. As the federal capital, Baghdad is home to the headquarters of most federal government institutions, including the Council of Ministers, its subordinate ministries, and both chambers of the Arab Congress.