Where's the Tigris river and Euphrates river what country's?

Question

Where's the Tigris river and Euphrates river what country's?

Answer 1

Tigris river runs from Turkey to Iraq( through Syria and Iran)

Euphrates runs from Turkey to the Persian Gulf...

Tigris is the eastern outline of Mesopotamia and euphrates is the western outline.

Answer 2

its in mesopotamia its a ancient place it has many seas and rivers

Answer 3

Called Mesopotamia, it was long long ago buddy

now Mesopotamia is called the Middle East. lol.

Answer 4

TIGRIS & EUPHRATES RIVER

- Origin: Eastern Turkey

- Basin countries: Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran

Map

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tigr-...

Answer 5

Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia - The land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

Related Resources

• Mesopotamia Resources

• Iraq War on Ancient Artifacts



    Mesopotamia means the land between the rivers. Hippotamus -- river horse -- contains the same word for river (potam-).

    The two rivers of Mesopotamia are the Tigris and the Euphrates (Dijla and Furat, in Arabic). The Euphrates is the one on the left (west) in maps and the Tigris is the one closer to Iran.

    Baghdad is by the Tigris River in the middle of Iraq.

    Babylon, the capital of Babylonia, was built along the Euphrates.

    Nippur, an important Babylonian city dedicated to the god Enlil, was located about 100 miles south of Babylon.

    The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers meet somewhat north of the modern city of Basra and flow into the Persian Gulf.

map of modern Iraq

Map of Modern Iraq showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

Land boundaries: total: 3,650 km

border countries: Iran 1,458 km, Jordan 181 km, Kuwait 240 km, Saudi Arabia 814 km, Syria 605 km, Turkey 352 km

Map courtesy of CIA Sourcebook.

The URL for this resource is

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/...

Mesopotamia - The land between the Tigris River and the Euphrates River

This page is copyright © 2003 N.S. Gill.

both rivers have their headwaters in the republic of turkey and flow south and east through Syria and Iraq to finally join together north of the Iraqi city of Basra before emptying into the persian gulf.

Answer 6

The Euphrates and the Tigris both spawn in the mountains of Turkey.  They then flow through Iraq until they reach the Persian Gulf.

Answer 7

iraq is todays name for mesopotamia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia