Babil Province (Arabic: بابل Bābil‎‎) (or Babylon Province) is a province in central Iraq. It haes an aurie o 5,603 square kilometres (2,163 sq mi), wi an estimatit population o 1,950,000 fowk in 2013. The provincial caipital is the ceety o Hillah, which lees opposite the auncient ceety o Babylon (بابل), on the Euphrates river.