Nineveh Governorate, which Statoids lists as Ninawa, is a governorate of Iraq whose capital is Mosul. It covers about 37,323 square kilometres and had 2,042,852 residents at the census of 16 October 1997, the figure given by Statoids. Its name is that of the ancient city of Nineveh, possibly from a Semitic word for habitation, and variant spellings include Ninevah and Niniveh. An older name for the governorate was Al-Mawsil, after Mosul. In January 2014 the Iraqi cabinet approved splitting Nineveh Plains from the governorate, though Statoids reports that change as disputed.
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Area (sq km) Admission Year Connections
Sources
1. Governorates of Iraq (Statoids)
Primary subdivisions table, Ninawa
Ninawa IQ.NI NI IZ15 2,042,852 37,323 14,410 Mosul 41
Change history, approximately 1970
~1970: Status of divisions changed from liwa to muhafazat.
View the SourceIraq (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationOn Continent: Asia, Lead sentence of the country article; the governorate is part of IraqQuote, On Continent: Asia, Lead sentence of the country article; the governorate is part of Iraq
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, historically known in the west as Mesopotamia, is a country in West Asia.
Nineveh Governorate (Wikipedia)
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Nineveh Governorate is a governorate in northern Iraq.
GeoNames: Mosul - GeoNames
GeoNamesHas Capital: Mosul, cities500 record 99072, feature code PPLA (seat of first-order division 15)Quote, Has Capital: Mosul, cities500 record 99072, feature code PPLA (seat of first-order division 15)
36.335 43.11889 P PPLA IQ 15 9166649 1683000 228 Asia/Baghdad
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