Tell Kaif or Tel Keppe (Arabic: تلكيف‎, Sir. جؠ ؟ؐئؐ) is a city in northern Iraq, located in the Nineveh Governorate. The administrative center of the district of the same name.

Geographic location
The city is located in the northern part of the governorate, in the northern part of the Mesopotamian lowland, at an altitude of 301 meters above sea level.
Tell Kaif is located approximately 8 kilometers north of Mosul, the provincial capital, and 360 kilometers north-northwest (NNW) of Baghdad, the country’s capital.

Famous Natives
Joseph VI – Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church in 1696-1713
Emmanuel III Delly – Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church in 2003-2012
Tariq Aziz – Iraqi public, political and statesman