Ninawa Province

Nineveh Province Ninawa Govrenorate
Province
Coordinates: 36°0′N 42°28′E
Kintra	Iraq
Caipital	Mosul
Area
• Total	37323 km2 (14,410 sq mi)
Population  (2007)
• Total	2,811,091

Ninawa ([نینوى Nīnawā] , Kurdish: Neynewa‎, Syriac-Aramaic: ܢܝܢܘܐ Nīnwē) is a province in northren Iraq, an the Arabic name for the biblical ceety of Nineveh in Assirie. It haes an aurie o 37,323 square kilometres (14,410 sq mi) an an estimatit population o 2,453,000 fowk in 2003. Its chief ceety an provincial caipital is Mosul, which lies athort the Tigris river frae the ruins o auncient Nineveh. Tal Afar is an aw a major ceety athin the region. Prior tae 1976, it wis cried Mosul Province an includit the present-day Dohuk Province an aw.