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Fun fact 2 about Tigris

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The Tigris flows for 400 km through Southeastern Turkey before forming part of the Syria-Turkey border.

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Tigris

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Length
1,750 km
Mouth
Persian Gulf
Countries
Turkey, Syria, Iraq
37th longest river in the world

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 through the Syrian and Arabian Deserts, before merging with the Euphrates and reaching to the Persian Gulf.

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