1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Iraq
Compare this sourced profile of Mosul, Iraq before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Mosul—1,683,000, Asia/Baghdad, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: city in northern Iraq and capital of Nineveh Province.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Mosul is GeoNames ID 99072. Its recorded administrative path is Mosul → Nineveh → Iraq, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Mosul occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-01-04; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Mosul ranks 265 by recorded population. Inside the 11 selected Iraq entries it ranks 2; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 58. Its 1,683,000 population value is 1.39 times the 1,211,849 median for the country cohort and 1.86 times the 902,588 regional median. Mosul falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Iraq population cohort. Mosul's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Mosul's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Erbil at 81.429 km with 1,612,700 recorded people; Kirkuk at 149.819 km with 1,031,000 recorded people; Orūmīyeh at 220.416 km with 577,307 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 138.987 km. Compared with Erbil, Mosul's recorded population is 1.04 times as large. Against Mosul, Erbil follows Arbil → Erbil → Iraq in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Iraq cohort, uses the shared Asia/Baghdad identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Mosul's. Against Mosul, Kirkuk follows Kirkuk District → Kirkuk → Iraq in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Iraq cohort, uses the shared Asia/Baghdad identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Mosul's. Against Mosul, Orūmīyeh follows West Azerbaijan → Iran in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Iran cohort rather than Iraq, uses Asia/Tehran instead of Asia/Baghdad, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Mosul's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 622 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Mosul's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 99072, the coordinate pair 36.3350 / 43.1189, country rank 2 of 11, and neighbor GeoNames 95446 at 81.429 km bind Mosul to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Mosul's reference point is 36.3350° north and 43.1189° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Baghdad is shared by 11 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Mosul's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Mosul's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Mosul's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Mosul, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Mosul's closest other entries in this atlas are Erbil (81.429 km), Kirkuk (149.819 km), Orūmīyeh (220.416 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-01-04; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.