Al-Zubair District

Al-Zubair District is a district in Basra Governorate, Iraq. It seat is the city of Al-Zubair. In the 1880s some Najd tribes immigrated to al-Zubair because Najd had nothing to offer, but around 1945s they returned to their home after it has changed notably. In the early 1990s, Saddam Hussein hoped to make al-Zubair province number 19 and annex it to Kuwait after invading. The failure of the Invasion of Kuwait put rest to this idea. The district is majority Shia Muslim with a sizable Sunni Muslim population.
The district is home to many Afro-Iraqi people.