Mosul
الموصل | |
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![]() Tigris, a bridge and Grand Mosque in Mosul | |
Nickname: Nīnwē ܢܝ݂ܢܘܹܐ | |
Coordinates: 36°20′N 43°08′E / 36.34°N 43.13°E | |
Country | Iraq |
Governorate | Nineveh Governorate |
Area | |
• City | 180 km2 (70 sq mi) |
Elevation | 223 m (732 ft) |
Population (2015) | |
• City | 664,221 |
• Urban | Unknown (estimates range between 750,000 and 1,500,000[1] |
UNData 1987[3] | |
Demonym | Moslawi |
Time zone | UTC+3 (AST) |
Area code | 60 |
Mosul (Arabic: الموصل al-Mawṣil, Kurdish: مووسڵ, Syriac: ܡܘܨܠ, romanized: Māwṣil) is a city in the north of Iraq. Under the Ottoman Empire it was the capital of northern Iraq. More than a million people lived there when Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant conquered it in 2014. In 2017 the Iraqi Army with help from Kurdish Peshmerga troops and other militias took the city back.