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Babylon 1

ANCIENT NAMES

  • Βαβυλών Babylon Greek
  • Babylon Latin
  • Bābili Akkadian
  • Ka-dingirra Sumerian

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Skip the map 15°E 20°E 25°E 30°E 35°E 40°E 45°E 50°E 28°N 32°N 36°N 40°N Riblah Riblah Hamath Hamath Edom EDOM Cuth Cuth Chaldea CHALDEA Babylonia BABYLONIA Assyria ASSYRIA Tyre Tyre Persia PERSIA Jerusalem Jerusalem +1 Egypt EGYPT Babylon Babylon 200 mi scriptoria.digital Place data: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0

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city known location approximate debated 13 places · c. AD 30-62 · modern coastline: harbors have silted up over two thousand years · +N: other places on the same point · drag and zoom · Place data: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0

WITH JERUSALEM · CHALDEA · EGYPT · ZION AND 8 MORE, named in the same passages

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How to cite: Scriptoria, Bible Atlas, 2026. scriptoria.digital. License CC BY 4.0.

Map: Scriptoria, CC BY 4.0. Place data: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0. Coast and rivers: Natural Earth, public domain. Relief: ETOPO 2022 (NOAA NCEI), public domain. The credits are in each sheet's footer.

The Ishtar Gate of Babylon, rebuilt in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin.

The Ishtar Gate of Babylon, rebuilt in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin.

PHOTO: Radomir Vrbovsky CC BY-SA 4.0 Wikimedia Commons

DISTANCES IN A STRAIGHT LINE

  • Cuth ABOUT 19 MI (30 KM) IN A STRAIGHT LINE · 2 DAYS ON FOOT
  • Riblah 1 ABOUT 470 MI (760 KM) IN A STRAIGHT LINE
  • Hamath 1 ABOUT 480 MI (760 KM) IN A STRAIGHT LINE
  • Tyre ABOUT 540 MI (860 KM) IN A STRAIGHT LINE
  • Zion ABOUT 540 MI (870 KM) IN A STRAIGHT LINE
  • Jerusalem ABOUT 540 MI (870 KM) IN A STRAIGHT LINE

In a straight line, between the atlas's coordinates. On foot, at 30 km (19 mi) a day on a road 1.3 times longer than the line.

2 OTHER PLACES CALLED BABYLON

189 PASSAGES · 15 BOOKS

COORDINATES 32.5433, 44.4222

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ON WIKIDATA · Q5684