Baiji, Iraq

34.92920277777843.493138888889Koordinaten: 34 ° 56 'N, 43 ° 30' E

The city of Baiji (Arabic بيجي Baiji, DMG Bayǧī ) belongs to the province of Salah ad -Din (Iraq) and is located about 200 km north of Baghdad in the so-called Sunni triangle. In the industrial city is Iraq's largest oil refinery. The city has about 60,000 inhabitants.

The city lies at the Baghdad Railway, her station is a railway junction, since branching from here the routes to Kirkuk and Haqlaniyya.

Since the fall of the regime of Saddam Hussein has there been numerous attacks by insurgents and terrorists.

On 24 January 2006, the two Leipzig engineers René Brownish and Thomas Nitzschke were kidnapped in Baiji. They came after 99 days held hostage on 2 May 2006 again.