Shatt al-Arab
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shatt-al-arab-166-10174946
title:
Shatt al-Arab
text:
The Arvand Rud aka Shatt al-Arab is a river about 200 kilometres (120 mi) in length that is formed at the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in the town of al-Qurnah in the Basra Governorate of southern Iraq. The southern end of the river constitutes the Iran–Iraq border down to its mouth, where it discharges into the Persian Gulf. The Shatt al-Arab varies in width from about 232 metres (761 ft) at Basra to 800 metres (2,600 ft) at its mouth. It is thought that the waterway formed rel
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
River in Western Asia
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatt_al-Arab
date created:
2002-11-14T18:10:02Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T21:20:45Z
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13
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