Ramadi (;
BGN:
Ar-Ramadi; also formerly rendered as
Rumadiyah or
Rumadiya) is a
city in central
Iraq, about west of
Baghdad and west of
Fallujah. It is the capital of
Al Anbar Governorate. The city extends along the
Euphrates and is the largest city in Al-Anbar. Founded by the
Ottoman Empire in 1879, by 2004 it had a population of about 450,000 people, the vast majority of whom are
Sunni Arabs from the
Dulaim tribal confederation. It lies within the
Sunni Triangle of western Iraq.