Tigris
The Tigris 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... Wikipedia
- Country: Turkey, Syria, Iraq
- Source region: Armenian Highlands
- Cities: Elazığ, Diyarbakır, Mosul, Baghdad
- Main source: Gölardı, Turkey, 1,150 m (3,772.97 ft)
- River mouth: Al-Qurnah, Iraq, 1 m (3.28 ft)
- Progression: Shatt al-Arab → Persian Gulf
- River system: Tigris–Euphrates river system
- Basin size: 375,000 km² (144,788.31 sq mi)
- Length: 1,900 km (1,180.61 mi)
- Discharge: Location, Baghdad, Minimum rate, 337 m³/s (11,901.04 cu ft/s), Average rate, 1,014 m³/s (35,809.07 cu ft/s), Maximum rate, 2,779 m³/s (98,139.46 cu ft/s)
- Tributaries: Left, Garzan, Botan, Khabur, Greater Zab, Lesser Zab, 'Adhaim, Cizre, Diyala, Right, Wadi Tharthar
- Data source: DuckDuckGo