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Iraq's major river systems (French language map). This is a list of rivers of Iraq. Persian Gulf. Shatt al-Arab. Euphrates. Shatt al-Hayy or Gharraf Canal ...
About 20% of the Hasbani flow [7] emerges from the Wazzani Spring at Ghajar, close to the Lebanese-Golan Heights border, about 3 km (1.9 mi) west of the base of Mount Hermon. The contribution of the Wazzani spring is very important to the river, since this is the only continuous year-round flow into the Hasbani, in either Lebanon or Israel. [8]
The rivers flow in a south-easterly direction through the central plain and combine at Al-Qurnah to form the Shatt al-Arab and discharge into the Persian Gulf. [1] The rivers and their tributaries drain an area of 879,790 square kilometres (339,690 sq mi), [2] including almost the entire area of Iraq as well as portions of Turkey, Syria, Iran ...
Originating in Turkey, the Euphrates flows through Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris in the Shatt al-Arab in Iraq, which empties into the Persian Gulf. The Euphrates is the fifteenth-longest river in Asia and the longest in Western Asia, at about 2,780 km (1,730 mi), with a drainage area of 440,000 km 2 (170,000 sq mi) that covers six countries.
The Shatt al-Arab (Arabic: شط العرب, lit. 'River of the Arabs'; Persian: اروندرود, romanized: Arvand Rud, lit. 'Swift River' [5]) is a river about 200 kilometres (120 mi) in length that is formed at the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in the town of al-Qurnah in the Basra Governorate of southern Iraq.
These are the main rivers that flow in or through Syria. ... (On the border between Syria and Lebanon) ... Tigris (On the border between Syria and Iraq) Euphrates ...
This is a List of international river borders. Rivers that form any portion of the border between two countries minimum: ... Turkey Syria Iran and Iraq: Euphrates River:
The Little Zab or Lower Zab (Arabic: الزاب الاسفل, al-Zāb al-Asfal; Kurdish: Zêy Koya or Zêyê Biçûk; Persian: زاب کوچک, Zâb-e Kuchak; Syriac: ܙܒܐ ܬܚܬܝܐ, Zāba Taḥtāya) is a river that originates in Iran and joins the Tigris just south of Al Zab in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. The Little Zab is approximately ...