Geographical map of Iraq showing the general relief and the main rivers and their tributaries and distributaries.

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... Tigris River inside Turkey flows mainly in mountainous areas, where it crosses many ridges; however, in small area it flows within flat and undulatory plains. The Tigris River flows inside Iraqi territory from the extreme north-western part of Iraq ( Figure 1) at Fish Khabour town in NW -SE trend. The landscape is gently rolling to flat plains with a wide flood plain of the river at an elevation of 338m above sea level (a.s.l.). ...

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... about 50km south of Amara city, the Tigris River starts merging in a marsh system and continues until Al-Qurans town where both Tigris and Euphrates rivers merge together forming Shat Al-Arab ( Figure 1) at an elevation of 5m (a.s.l.). Shat Al-Arab is about 190km long flowing in NW -SE trend and merges in the Arabian Gulf. ...

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... Tuz Chai tributary is 138km passing through Tuz Khurnatu City. It starts from the southern limb of Qara Dagh Mountain at elevation of 1334m (a.s.l.), at Tuz Khurmatu the elevation of the river bed is 248m (a.s.l.), and at the merge point with Al- Adhaim Reservoir is 116m (a.s.l.). Accordingly, the gradient of the river until Tuz Khurmatu town is 8.37% and until the merge point with Al-Adhaim Reservoir is 3.59%. ...