Born in Karbala
Karbala is home to 1.2 million people. It is the number 5 city in Iraq by population. Sourced: GeoNames
Among the largest cities in Iraq
Baghdad7.2 million
Mosul1.7 million
Erbil1.6 million
Basrah1.3 million
Karbala1.2 million
Sadr City1.2 million
Kirkuk1.0 million
Abū Ghurayb900,000
Sourced: GeoNames Population. Karbala is highlighted.
Iraq as a whole
- Life expectancy at birth: 70.4 years for boys, 74.1 for girls Sourced: UN WPP 2024
- Children who die before age 5: 22.8 in every 1,000 births Sourced: UN WPP 2024
These are national figures: the game does not have separate health figures for Karbala. More about Iraq
Live a life in Karbala
Choose Karbala and you are born there, to a family drawn from the real mix of the place. Then you live it year by year, with a few choices that bend the odds. About an hour, and every life replays exactly from its seed.