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Abstract
This paper explores the effects of high urbanization on electricity usage in Karbala Governorate in the year 2025 and its geographic distribution. The governorate had around 1,518,544 people. Another problem examined in the research is the consumption of electricity due to the growth in the number of people in Karbala. A descriptive-analytical approach to the theoretical part of the study and an applied approach, analyzing the indicators of importance during the 20152025 period, were the approaches used by the researcher basing on official and academic sources and data. Karbala Governorate, according to the findings, has a severe shortage of electricity supply and unequal distribution of the urban and rural regions. The consumption of electricity rose to 8,415,397 megawatt-hours in 2025 against 3,970,440 megawatt-hours in 2015 without leaving out that the consumption was highest in the urban areas where there is a high density of human settlement. The introduction, theoretical proposal of the study, and its framework were covered in the first chapter. The second chapter addressed the concept of rapid urbanization and electricity, as well as its main concepts and terms. The third chapter discussed the key measures of electricity distribution and consumption. At the end, the paper gave recommendations and proposals, and the conclusion was that the variables of high rates of urbanization, population growth in Karbala, and electricity consumption are directly related.