| MOSUL | City in northern Iraq |
| KIRKUK | City in northern Iraq (6) |
| KURD | Nomad in northern Iraq (4) |
| KURDS | Dairy products reportedly made by people in northern Iraq |
| NINEVEH | Ancient ruined capital of Assyria now in northern Iraq (7) |
| ASSYRIAN | Person from an ancient country, now in northern Iraq (8) |
| ASSYRIA | Powerful ancient country in what is now northern Iraq (7) |
| ZAGROS | Mountain range in southwestern Iran, extending northwest-southeast from the border areas of eastern Turkey and northern Iraq to the Strait of Hormuz. Its highest point is Mount Dena. (6) |
| LISBURN | Small city in Northern Irelnd (pop about 70,000), granted city status in 2002(7) |
| MANTUA | Small city in northern Italy (pop about 50,000), designated the Italian City of Culture in 2017 (6) |
| LEEDS | City in northern England in the county known as "God's Own Country" (5) |
| NUMANTIA | Ancient city in northern Spain besieged by Scipio Aemilianus in 133 BC (8) |
| MILAN | A city in Northern Italy, in central Lombardy (5) |
| NEWCASTLE | City in northern England, to which, in the proverb, it is unnecessary to carry coals |
| ORLEANS | City in northern France ( pop 115,000), with a cathedral built in the 17th century ( 7) |
| ARMAGH | The least-populated city in Northern Ireland and the fifth smallest in the UK (6) |
| TRENTO | City in northern Italy (pop about 120,000), ceded to Italy in 1919 (6) |
| CHERNOBYL | A city in Northern Ukraine, site of a nuclear power station accident in 1986 (9) |
| ROUEN | A city in northern France, on the River Seine; the scene of the burning of Joan of Arc in 1431 (5) |
| VERONA | City in northern Italy, in Veneto, on the Adige River |
