Iraq’s largest dam, built on the Tigris north of Mosul in the 1980s.
A long lake winds behind it between the hills, and people picnic on its shores.
Photos: Ali Haidar Khan · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mosul Dam and its lake
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