Nineveh Governorate (Arabic: نینوى‎ Nīnawā, Kurdish: Neynewa, Syriac: ܢܝܢܘܐ Nīnwē), is a governorate in northern Iraq, which contains the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh. It has an area of 37,323 square kilometres (3.7323×1010 m2) and an estimated population of 2,453,000 people in 2003. Its chief city and provincial capital is Mosul, which lies across the Tigris river from the ruins of ancient Nineveh. Tal Afar is also a major city within the region. Before 1976, it was called Mosul Province and it included the present-day Dohuk Governorate.
An ethnically and culturally diverse region, it has been subject to attack by the self-declared Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, with Mosul being captured on 10 June 2014, and many places of worship destroyed.


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