Mosul Facts for Kids

Quick facts for kids Mosul الموصل
City
Tigris, a bridge and Grand Mosque in Mosul
Nickname(s): Nīnwē ܢܝ݂ܢܘܹܐ
Mosul Location in Iraq Show map of Iraq Mosul Location in Asia Show map of Asia
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
Demonym(s)	Moslawi
Time zone	UTC+3 (AST)
Area code(s)	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.

Published in the 19th century
Published in the 20th century
Published in the 21st century

Images for kids

Mosul Museum is the second largest museum in Iraq after the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad. It containins ancient Mesopotamian artifacts, mainly Assyrian.
The Shrine of Imam Yahya Abu Al Qasim
Nineveh - Mashki Gate
Dair Mar Elia south of Mosul, Iraq's oldest monastery of the Assyrian Church of the East, dating from the 6th century. It was destroyed by ISIS in 2014.
A Persian miniature depicting the siege of Mosul in 1261–63 from: .
A coffee house in Mosul, 1914.
Mosul in 1932. The leaning minaret of Great Mosque of al-Nuri gave the city its nickname "the hunchback" (الحدباء al-Ḥadbāˈ)
Mosul, 1968
Iraqi police, U.S. Soldiers patrol neighborhood in Mosul, March 19, 2007
A souk (traditional market) in Mosul, 1932
Celebration at the Syriac Orthodox Monastery in Mosul, early 20th century
View of the Tigris river in Mosul
Mosul Grand Mosque
Mar Mattai Monastery of the Syriac Orthodox Church
Church of Saint Thomas, Mosul
Church of Saint Thomas, Mosul
Old house in Mosul.
Mosul university Stadium

Mosul facts for kids

Images for kids

See also