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Al-Hindiya District is a district of the Karbala Governorate, Iraq. The largest town is Al-Hindiya, to the east of Karbala. The Hindiya Barrage in the north of the district controls floods and diverts water from the Euphrates into irrigation canals on both sides of the river. The district has been the scene of clashes with Turkish and British colonial forces, and more recently with American troops in 2003. The population is about 230,000, mostly Shia, including significant numbers of refugees. Infrastructure is poor, but efforts are being made to improve it. ==Geography== The district is the easternmost of Karbala Governorate and is bordered by Babil Governorate to the east. It lies to the south of Baghdad and west of ancient Babylon. The Euphrates flows through the district from north to south. The principal town is Al-Hindiya, which lies on the road from Karbala to the west and Hillah to the east. The district is at an altitude of about above sea level. Observations of rainfall at Hindiya in the 1920s and 1930s gave a mean annual precipitation of , but there were wide variances from a maximum of to a minimum of . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Al-Hindiya District」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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