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The Tigris–Euphrates river system is a large river system in Western Asia that flows into the Persian Gulf. Its primary rivers are the Tigris and Euphrates, along with smaller tributaries . From their sources and upper courses in the Armenian Highlands of eastern Turkey, the rivers descend through valleys and gorges to the uplands of Syria ...
The river is home to approximately 140 species of fish, 90 species of amphibians, and also reptiles and mammals, including critically endangered species such as the gharial and South Asian river dolphin. [ 15] The Ganges is the most sacred river to Hindus. [ 16] It is worshipped as the goddess Ganga in Hinduism.
Amu Darya - Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan - Aral Sea. Amur - Northeastern China, Russia ( Siberia) - Sea of Okhotsk. Angara. Argun River (Asia) Aras -Iran. Badulu Oya - Sri Lanka. Bentara River - Sri Lanka. Bhima River ( maharastra )-India. Buriganga River - Bangladesh.
The Euphrates is the fifteenth-longest river in Asia and the longest in Western Asia, at about 2,780 km (1,730 mi), with a drainage area of 440,000 km 2 (170,000 sq mi) that covers six countries. Etymology
Ethnonyms. The Rainy Lake and River Bands of Saulteaux are named after their location of Rainy Lake and Rainy River, which in the Ojibwe language are Gojiji-zaaga'igan and Gojiji-ziibi, respectively. Handbook of North American Indians record other variations of their names. [1] The locative form of the region — gojijiing — is the basis for ...
Danube is an Old European river name derived from the Celtic ' danu ' or ' don ' [ 17] (both Celtic gods), which itself derived from the Proto-Indo-European *deh₂nu. Other European river names from the same root include the Dunaj, Dzvina/ Daugava, Don, Donets, Dnieper, Dniestr, Dysna and Tana/Deatnu. In Rigvedic Sanskrit, danu (दनु ...
The River Nile in the Post-Colonial Age: Conflict and Cooperation Among the Nile Basin Countries (I.B. Tauris, 2010) 293 pages; studies of the river's finite resources as shared by multiple nations in the post-colonial era; includes research by scholars from Burundi, Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Astronaut photograph of the Syr Darya River floodplain. The Syr Darya (/ ˌ s ɪər ˈ d ɑːr. j ə /, Persian pronunciation: [siːɾ dæɾˈjɒː]), historically known as the Jaxartes (/ dʒ æ k ˈ s ɑːr t iː z /, Ancient Greek: Ἰαξάρτης), is a river in Central Asia. The name, which is Persian, literally means Syr Sea or Syr River.