Nineveh

Location

Type

settlement

Coordinates

36.3594, 43.1528

Certainty

very-high

OpenBible.info: "Nineveh (modern): very high confidence" (page fetched 2026-10-17).

OpenBible.info first-ranked identification (Nineveh (modern)); representative point 43.152800,36.359400 (lon,lat).

• OpenBible.info entry (opens in a new tab) (CC BY 4.0, OpenBible.info)
• OpenBible GeoJSON (opens in a new tab)

Scripture

• Genesis 10:11 (opens in a new tab)
• Genesis 10:12 (opens in a new tab)

Events here

• Death of Ninus (Nimrod)
• Reign of Ninyas Zames (Gilgamesh)
• Reign of Semiramis I (Merneith/Uenephes)

Maps

• 🗺OpenBible.info: places in Genesis (KML)

Related

• Nimrod
• Asshur
• Final Territorial Division of the Earth (birth of Peleg)

Free sources

• OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding (opens in a new tab) open-license
• The King James Version of the Bible (opens in a new tab) public-domain

Copyrighted works (CFAH papers, F. N. Jones) are linked, not reproduced.