Sami Abdulrahman Park

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Sami Abdulrahman Park is a public park in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq. It covers about 200 hectares (2 square kilometers) and sits on land that used to be Saddam Hussein’s 5th Corps base. The park is named after Sami Abdulrahman, the Kurdistan Regional Government deputy prime minister who was killed in a suicide bombing in 2004.

Construction began in 1998 and the park opened in 2006. It is open all year and run by the Kurdistan Regional Government. The park features two lakes, a rose garden, and the Martyrs Monument, plus a restaurant and a market. A monument there bears the inscription "Freedom is not free." The finish line of the Erbil Marathon is inside the park. Its Kurdish name is Parkî Samî Ebdulrehman.