الموصل | |
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Coordinates: 36°20′N 43°08′E / 36.34°N 43.13°ECoordinates: 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 |
UNData 1987 | |
Time zone | UTC+3 (AST) |
Mosul (Arabic: الموصل <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">al-Mawṣil, Kurdish: مووسڵ, Syriac: ܡܘܨܠ) 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.
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