Embassy of the United States, Baghdad

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The Embassy of the United States of America in Baghdad (Arabic: سفارة الولايات المتحدة، بغداد) is the diplomatic mission of the United States of America in the Republic of Iraq. Chargé d'affaires ad interim Steven Fagin is currently the chief of mission. At 104 acres (42 ha), it is the largest diplomatic mission compound in the world; nearly equal in area size to Vatican City. The embassy complex is about 2.5 times the size of the Embassy of the United States, Beirut, which is the second-largest U.S. diplomatic mission abroad, as well as over three times the size of the Embassy of the United States, Islamabad, which is the third-largest U.S. diplomatic mission abroad. The embassy opened in January 2009 following a series of construction delays. It replaced the previous embassy, which opened July 1, 2004 in the Republican Palace in Baghdad's Green Zone. The embassy complex cost US$750 million to build and reached a peak staffing of 16,000 employees and contractors in 2012. The U.S. thereafter...

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