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The Tigris (/ ˈ t aɪ ɡ r ɪ s / TY-griss; see below) is the eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. 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–Euphrates river system is a large river system in Western Asia that flows into the Persian Gulf. Its primary rivers are the Tigris and Euphrates, along with smaller tributaries.
The Tigris River flows through three countries - Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, and drains an area of approximately 375,000 sq. km (including Iran). It discharges an average volume of 1,014 cubic meters of water per second and a maximum of 2,779 cubic meters per second.
Tigris-Euphrates river system, great river system of southwestern Asia. It comprises the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which follow roughly parallel courses through the heart of the Middle East. The lower portion of the region that they define, known as Mesopotamia (Greek: “Land Between the Rivers”), was one of the cradles of civilization.
In southern Iraq, the sprawling Mesopotamian Marshes absorb the Tigris close to the confluence with its sister river, the Euphrates, and both flow together to the Persian Gulf.
The Tigris is the second largest river in Western Asia, next to the Euphrates, and it originates near Lake Hazar in eastern Turkey at an elevation of 1,150 meters (3,770 feet). The Tigris is fed from snow which falls annually over the uplands of northern and eastern Turkey, Iraq, and Iran.
As it reaches the Mesopotamian alluvial plain above Sāmarrāʾ, the Tigris is a bigger, faster, more silt-laden, and more unpredictable river than the Euphrates at the corresponding point, Al-Fallūjah.
Surrounded by four countries (Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria), the Tigris River is the second largest river in western Asia. With the Euphrates River, it makes up a river system that borders Mesopotamia in the area known as the Fertile Crescent.
…is the area between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, north or northwest of the bottleneck at Baghdad, in modern Iraq; it is Al-Jazīrah (“The Island”) of the Arabs. South of this lies Babylonia, named after the city of Babylon.
With a length of approximately 1,850 kilometers (1,150 miles), the Tigris is slightly shorter than the Euphrates but is still one of the longest rivers in Western Asia. Throughout history, the Tigris has been a vital water source for agriculture, transportation, and human settlement in the region.