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Iraq intends to build two residential cities similar to the administrative capital planned near its capital Baghdad, an official was quoted on Friday as saying.
The National Investment Commission (NIC) will offer such projects to local and foreign developers after it determines their sites, NIC spokesman Muthnanna Al-Ghanimi said.
He told the official Iraqi news agency the two projects are part of NIC’s new strategy to expand domestic and foreign investment in construction and other projects.
The two new planned new cities are located in the central Karbala Governorate and in Alanbar, Iraq’s largest province which encompasses most of the country’s Western flank.
“We are planning to build two residential cities in those governorates similar to Al-Rafeel administrative capital in Baghdad,” Al-Ghanimi said without providing further details.
Al-Rafeel City is located in the outskirts of Baghdad near the International Airport and will comprise nearly 75,000 houses, with an area of 265 square kilometres.
(Writing by Nadim Kawach; Editing by Anoop Menon)
