Maslawi

Mosul الموصل
City
Tigris, a bridge and Grand Mosque in Mosul
Nickname(s): Nīnwē ܢܝ݂ܢܘܹܐ
Mosul Show map of Iraq Mosul Show map of Asia Location of Mosul within Iraq
Coordinates: 36°20′N 43°08′E / 36.34°N 43.13°E / 36.34; 43.13Coordinates: 36°20′N 43°08′E / 36.34°N 43.13°E / 36.34; 43.13
Country	Iraq
Governorate	Nineveh Governorate
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	AST (UTC+3)
Area code(s)	60

Mosul (Arabic: الموصل‎ al-Mawṣil, Kurdish: مووسڵ‎, Syriac: ܡܘܨܠ‎, translit. Māwṣil) is a major city in northern Iraq.

Located some 400 km (250 mi) north of Baghdad, Mosul stands on the west bank of the Tigris, opposite the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh on the east bank. The metropolitan area has grown to encompass substantial areas on both the "Left Bank" (east side) and the "Right Bank" (west side), as the two banks are described by the locals compared to the flow direction of Tigris.

At the start of the 21st century, Mosul and its surrounds had an ethnically and religiously diverse population; the majority of Mosul's population were Arabs, with Assyrians,Armenians, Turkmens, Kurds, Yazidis, Shabakis, Mandaeans, Kawliya, Circassians in addition to other, smaller ethnic minorities. In religious terms, mainstream Sunni Islam was the largest religion, but with a significant number of followers of the Salafi movement and Christianity (the latter followed by the Assyrians and Armenians), as well as Shia Islam, Sufism, Yazidism, Shabakism, Yarsanism and Mandaeism.