66. 14 Ramadan 67. Yarmouk (Al-Yarmuk) 68. Safarat Complex, Kafa'at 69. Al-A'amiriya (Al-Amriya) 70. Al Khadhraa, Hayy Al-Jami'a (Al-Jamia'a) 71. Al-Adel (Al-Adil) 72. Ghazaliya East 73. Ghazaliya West 74. Baghdad International Airport, Abu Ghraib Road Al Rashid District 75. Dora Refinery 76. Dora, Athureen, Tua'ma 77. Al-Saydiya, Dhubat 78. Al-Saydiya 79. Bajas, Hayy Al-A'amel (Amil) 80. Hayy Al-Jihad 81. Al-Atiba'a 82. Ajnadin, Hayy Al-Shurtta (Shurta) 4th & 5th 83. Al-Furat 84. Suwaib, Makasib 85. Resala, Qertan, Ewainy West 86. Ewairij 87. Saha (Seha), Hor Rejab 88. Mechanic, Asia 89. Bo'aitha Formation of the current system The City of Baghdad has 89 official neighborhoods within 9 districts. These official subdivisions of the city served as administrative centers for the delivery of municipal services but until 2003 had no political function. Beginning in April 2003, the U.S. controlled Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) began the process of creating new functions for these subdivisions. The process initially focused on the election of neighborhood councils in the official neighborhoods, elected by neighborhood caucuses. The CPA convened a series of meetings in each neighborhood to explain local government, to describe the caucus election process and to encourage participants to spread the word and bring friends, relatives and neighbors to subsequent meetings. Each neighborhood process ultimately ended with a final meeting where candidates for the new neighborhood councils identified themselves and asked their neighbors to vote for them. Once all 88 (later increased to 89) neighborhood councils were in place, each neighborhood council elected representatives from among their members to serve on one of the city's nine district councils. The number of neighborhood representatives on a district council is based upon the neighborhood’s population. The next step was to have each of the nine district councils elect representatives from their membership to serve on the 37 member Baghdad City Council. This three-tier system of local government connected the people of Baghdad to the central government through their representatives from the neighborhood, through the district, and up to the city council. The same process was used to provide representative councils for the other communities in Baghdad Governorate outside of the city itself. There, local councils were elected from 20 neighborhoods (Nahia) and these councils elected representatives from their members to serve on six district councils (Qada). As within the city, the district councils then elected representatives from among their members to serve on the 35 member Baghdad Regional