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1 Flowing into the Persian Gulf. 2 Flowing into the Gulf of Oman. 3 Flowing into endorheic basins. ... This is a list of the rivers that flow wholly or partly in Iran
The Persian Gulf is connected to the Indian Ocean through the Strait of Hormuz. Writing the water balance budget for the Persian Gulf, the inputs are river discharges from Iran and Iraq (estimated to be 2,000 cubic metres (71,000 cu ft) per second), as well as precipitation over the sea which is around 180 mm (7.1 in)/year in Qeshm Island.
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 ...
Catchment area of Karun River (in deep blue) Karun River near the city of Ahvaz. The largest river by discharge in Iran, the Karun River's watershed covers 65,230 square kilometres (25,190 sq mi) in parts of two Iranian provinces. The river is around 950 kilometres (590 mi) long and has an average discharge of 575 cubic metres per second ...
The river flows south from the mountains of the Armenian Highlands through the Syrian and Arabian Deserts, before merging with the Euphrates and reaching to the Persian Gulf. The Tigris passes through historical cities like Mosul , Tikrit , Samarra , and Baghdad .
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.
1 Persian Gulf. 2 Syrian Desert. 3 See also. ... Iraq's major river systems (French language map). This is a list of rivers of Iraq. Persian Gulf. Shatt al-Arab.
Gulf of Roses, the most northeastern bay on the Catalan coast; Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the world's largest estuary and the outlet of the Saint Lawrence River into the Atlantic Ocean; Gulf St Vincent, Separated from Spencer Gulf by the Yorke Peninsula; Gulf of Salerno, which extends from Amalfi to Paestum across Salerno.