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Population estimates are around 46, 000 people living in Umm Qasr town at the outbreak of the 2003 war.
Having grown from a tiny fishing village in 1958, the town is laid out in planned housing tracts, with workers living near the previously state-owned industries which employed them.
Almost the entire population were relocated from other parts of Iraq to work in state-run industries.
The port ( and its workforce ) were dramatically expanded following the first Gulf War, in part to remove vital functions from Basra, scene of a major anti-government uprising.
A mapping project shortly thereafter stated " In total, the town is composed of 82 streets ; each street has 72 houses.
Up to three to four families live in each house.
" It then described three main neighborhoods:
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