Iraq
NW Iraq
Nineveh Governorate

Mosul

Mosul is a city in 's Northwestern region, and is the country's second largest city by population. Its religious makeup is one of the most diverse in the country.
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  • Type: City with 1,850,000 residents
  • Description: city in northern Iraq and capital of Nineveh Province
  • Also known as: “Al Mawşil”, “Al Mosul”, “Al Mūşil”, “Mosūl”, “Mousl”, and “Moussoul”
Photo: Abdulsalam Al Dabbagh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Abdulsalam Al Dabbagh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Abdulsalam Al Dabbagh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Abdulsalam Al Dabbagh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Abdulsalam Al Dabbagh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Abdulsalam Al Dabbagh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Abdulsalam Al Dabbagh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Abdulsalam Al Dabbagh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Abdulsalam Al Dabbagh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Abdulsalam Al Dabbagh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Abdulsalam Al Dabbagh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Abdulsalam Al Dabbagh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Abdulsalam Al Dabbagh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Abdulsalam Al Dabbagh, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Great Mosque of al-Nuri and Mosul Railway Station.

Ruins
Photo: Ennolenze, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , also known as the Nouri Mosque, is a Sunni in Mosul, in the of , famous for its leaning minaret, which gave the city its nickname "the hunchback".

Railway station
Photo: الدبوني, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Ruins
Photo: Eng Omer Akram, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, also known as Bashtabiya Castle or Pashtabia Castle, is a ruined 12th-century castle located on the western bank of the river, forming part of the city wall of Mosul, Iraq.

Mosul

Latitude
36.3416° or 36° 20′ 30″ north
Longitude
43.1291° or 43° 7′ 45″ east
Population
1,850,000
Elevation
228 metres (748 feet)
IATA airport code
OSM
United Nations Location Code
IQ OSM
Open location code
8H8584RH+JM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 94312904
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
99072
Wiki­data ID
Q83317
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Mosul” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Mosoel”
  • Afrikaans: “Mosul”
  • Arabic: “الموصل”
  • Arabic: “مدينة الموصل”
  • Arabic: “موصل”
  • Armenian: “Մոսուլ”
  • Asturian: “Mosul”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mosul şəhəri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mosul”
  • Bashkir: “Мосул”
  • Basque: “Mosul”
  • Belarusian: “Масул”
  • Bengali: “মসুল”
  • Bhojpuri: “मोसुल”
  • Bosnian: “Mosul”
  • Breton: “Mosoul”
  • Bulgarian: “Мосул”
  • Catalan: “Al-Mawsil”
  • Catalan: “Mawsil”
  • Catalan: “Mossul”
  • Catalan: “Mosul”
  • Cebuano: “Mosul”
  • Central Kurdish: “شه‌به‌ك”
  • Central Kurdish: “موسڵ”
  • Central Kurdish: “مووسڵ”
  • Chechen: “Мовсил”
  • Chechen: “Мосул”
  • Chinese: “Mosul”
  • Chinese: “摩穌爾”
  • Chinese: “摩苏尔/摩穌爾”
  • Chinese: “摩苏尔”
  • Chinese: “摩苏尔省”
  • Chinese: “摩蘇爾”
  • Classical Syriac: “ܡܘܨܠ”
  • Croatian: “Mosul”
  • Czech: “Mosul”
  • Danish: “Mosul”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Musıl”
  • Dutch: “Mosoel”
  • Dutch: “Mossoel”
  • Dutch: “Mossoul”
  • Dutch: “Mossul”
  • Dutch: “Mosul”
  • Eastern Mari: “Мосул”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الموصل”
  • Esperanto: “Mosul”
  • Esperanto: “Mosulo”
  • Estonian: “Mosul”
  • Finnish: “Al-Mawṣil”
  • Finnish: “Mosul”
  • French: “Mossoul”
  • Galician: “Mosul”
  • Georgian: “მოსული”
  • German: “Al Mawsil”
  • German: “Al-Mausil”
  • German: “Al-Mawṣil”
  • German: “Mossul”
  • German: “Mosul”
  • German: “Mûsil”
  • German: “Ninewa”
  • German: “Nîněwâ”
  • Greek: “Μοσούλη”
  • Gujarati: “મોસુલ”
  • Hebrew: “מוסול”
  • Hebrew: “מוצול”
  • Hebrew: “מוצל”
  • Hindi: “मोसुल”
  • Hungarian: “Moszul”
  • Icelandic: “Mósúl”
  • Ido: “Mosul”
  • Indonesian: “Mosul”
  • Interlingua: “Mosul”
  • Interlingue: “Mosul”
  • Irish: “Mosul”
  • Italian: “Mossoul”
  • Italian: “Mossul”
  • Italian: “Mosul”
  • Japanese: “モースル”
  • Japanese: “モスル”
  • Javanese: “Mosul”
  • Kalaallisut: “Mosul”
  • Kannada: “ಮೊಸುಲ್”
  • Kannada: “ಮೋಸುಲ್”
  • Kazakh: “Мосул”
  • Kirghiz: “Мосeл”
  • Kirghiz: “Мосул”
  • Korean: “모술”
  • Kurdish: “Misil”
  • Kurdish: “Mosil”
  • Kurdish: “Musił”
  • Kurdish: “Musîl”
  • Kurdish: “Mûsil”
  • Kurdish: “موسڵ”
  • Latin: “Mausilium”
  • Latvian: “Mosul”
  • Latvian: “Mosula”
  • Limburgan: “Mosoel”
  • Lithuanian: “Mosulas”
  • Lithuanian: “Ninevė”
  • Lombard: “Mossoul”
  • Lombard: “Mossul”
  • Lombard: “Mosul”
  • Lombard: “الموصل”
  • Macedonian: “Мосул”
  • Malay: “Mosul”
  • Malayalam: “മൊസൂൾ”
  • Maori: “Mosul”
  • Marathi: “मोसुल”
  • Mazanderani: “موصل”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mosul”
  • Mingrelian: “მოსული”
  • Mongolian: “Мосул хот”
  • Mongolian: “Мосул”
  • Nauru: “Mosul”
  • Nepali: “मोसुल”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mosul”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mosul”
  • Norwegian: “Mosul”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mossol”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܕܝܢܬܐ ܕܡܘܨܠ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܘܨܠ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܘܨܠܐ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܢܝܢܒ݂ܐ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ࡌࡀࡅࡑࡉࡋ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Mosul”
  • Ossetian: “Мосул”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੋਸਲ”
  • Persian: “موصل”
  • Polish: “Al-Mausil”
  • Polish: “Mosul”
  • Portuguese: “Mossul”
  • Portuguese: “Mosul”
  • Romanian: “Mosul”
  • Russian: “Мосул”
  • Scots: “Mosul”
  • Scots: “الموصل”
  • Serbian: “Mosul”
  • Serbian: “Мосул”
  • Serbian: “الموصل”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mosul”
  • Sicilian: “Mossul”
  • Silesian: “Mosul”
  • Sindhi: “موصل شهر”
  • Sinhala: “මොසුල්”
  • Slovak: “Mosul”
  • Slovenian: “Mosul”
  • Somali: “Mowsil”
  • South Azerbaijani: “موصول”
  • Spanish: “Mosul”
  • Swahili: “Mosul”
  • Swedish: “Al Mawsil”
  • Swedish: “Al-Mawsil”
  • Swedish: “Mawsil”
  • Swedish: “Mossul”
  • Swedish: “Mosul”
  • Tajik: “Мавсил”
  • Tajik: “Мосул”
  • Tamil: “மோசுல்”
  • Tatar: “Мосул”
  • Tatar: “Мөсил”
  • Telugu: “మౌసుల్”
  • Thai: “โมซูล”
  • Turkish: “Mosul”
  • Turkish: “Musul”
  • Uighur: “مەۋسىل”
  • Ukrainian: “Мосул”
  • Urdu: “موصل”
  • Uzbek: “Al-Mavsil”
  • Uzbek: “Mosul”
  • Venetian: “Mosul”
  • Vietnamese: “Mosul”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mosul”
  • Welsh: “Mosul”
  • Western Armenian: “Մոսուլ”
  • Western Panjabi: “موصل”
  • Wu Chinese: “摩苏尔”
  • Yiddish: “מאסול”
  • Yue Chinese: “摩蘇爾”
  • Zeeuws: “Mosoel”
  • “मोसुल”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Mosul”. Photo: Abdulsalam Al Dabbagh, CC BY-SA 4.0.