Middle East
Iraq
Basra Governorate

Euphrates

The Euphrates is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of West Asia. with the , it is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia.
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: river in Asia
  • Also known as: “Al Furāt”, “As Shatt-al- Hilla”, “Deir ez Zor”, “El Furāt”, “Ferath”, “Furat Su”, and “Nahr al Furāt”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Al Maaqal railway station.

Al-Maqal Station is the main train station in Basrah. It links the rail network of the south to and the north of . is situated 2½ km southeast of Euphrates.

Euphrates

Latitude
30.57889° or 30° 34′ 44″ north
Longitude
47.76572° or 47° 45′ 57″ east
Open location code
8H29HQH8+H7
Geo­Names ID
315147
Wiki­data ID
Q34589
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Euphrates” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Eufraat”
  • Akkadian: “Purattu”
  • Albanian: “Eufrati”
  • Albanian: “Lumi i Eufratit”
  • Amharic: “ኤፍራጥስ ወንዝ”
  • Amharic: “ኤፍራጥስ”
  • Amharic: “ዩፍራትስ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Εὐφράτης”
  • Arabic: “الفرات”
  • Arabic: “فرات”
  • Arabic: “نهر الفرات”
  • Armenian: “Yeprad”
  • Armenian: “Եփրատ գետ”
  • Armenian: “Եփրատ”
  • Asturian: “Eufrates”
  • Asturian: “Éufrates”
  • Azerbaijani: “Fərat çayı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Fərat”
  • Bashkir: “Евфрат”
  • Basque: “Eufrates”
  • Belarusian: “Еўфрат”
  • Belarusian: “Эўфрат”
  • Bengali: “ইউফ্রেটিস”
  • Bengali: “ফোরাত”
  • Bhojpuri: “फ़रात नदी”
  • Bislama: “Yufreres”
  • Bosnian: “Eufrat”
  • Breton: “Eufrates”
  • Breton: “Eufratez”
  • Bulgarian: “Ефрат”
  • Burmese: “ယူဖရေးတီးမြစ်”
  • Catalan: “Al Furat”
  • Catalan: “Al-Furat”
  • Catalan: “Eufrates”
  • Catalan: “Èufrates”
  • Catalan: “Euphrates”
  • Catalan: “Firat”
  • Catalan: “Fırat”
  • Catalan: “Furat”
  • Catalan: “Phrat”
  • Catalan: “Prât”
  • Catalan: “Pu-rat-tu”
  • Catalan: “Riu Eufrates”
  • Catalan: “Riu Èufrates”
  • Catalan: “Ufratu”
  • Catalan: “Ευφράτης”
  • Cebuano: “Euphrates River”
  • Central Bikol: “Eufrates”
  • Central Kurdish: “فورات”
  • Chinese: “Euphrates Hô”
  • Chinese: “伯拉大河”
  • Chinese: “伯拉河”
  • Chinese: “幼发拉底河”
  • Chinese: “幼发拉的河”
  • Chinese: “幼發拉底河”
  • Chuvash: “Евфрат”
  • Classical Syriac: “Pērāth”
  • Classical Syriac: “Prath”
  • Croatian: “Eufrat”
  • Czech: “Eufrat”
  • Danish: “Eufrat”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Roê Fırati”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Royê Fırati”
  • Dutch: “Eufraat”
  • Dutch: “Frath”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نهر الفرات”
  • Esperanto: “Eŭfrato”
  • Estonian: “Eufrat”
  • Extremaduran: “Eufratis”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Euphrates”
  • Finnish: “Eufrat”
  • French: “Euphrate”
  • Galician: “Eufrates”
  • Galician: “Éufrates”
  • Galician: “Río Éufrates”
  • Georgian: “ევფრატი”
  • German: “Al-Firat”
  • German: “Eufrat”
  • German: “Eupharat”
  • German: “Euphrat”
  • Goan Konkani: “युफ्रेटीस”
  • Greek: “Ευφράτης”
  • Gujarati: “યુફ્રેટીસ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Yu-fat-lâ-tí-hò”
  • Hebrew: “נהר הפרת”
  • Hebrew: “נהר פרת”
  • Hebrew: “פרת”
  • Hindi: “फ़रात नदी”
  • Hindi: “फ़ुरात नदी”
  • Hungarian: “Al-Firát”
  • Hungarian: “Buranunna”
  • Hungarian: “Eufrátesz”
  • Hungarian: “Firat”
  • Hungarian: “Purattu”
  • Hurrian: “Puranti”
  • Icelandic: “Efrat”
  • Ido: “Eufrati”
  • Indonesian: “Sungai Efrat”
  • Indonesian: “Sungai Eufrat”
  • Indonesian: “Sungai Furat”
  • Ingush: “Идалбат”
  • Ingush: “ФаьратӀе”
  • Irish: “An Eofrait”
  • Italian: “Al-Furāt”
  • Italian: “Eufrate”
  • Japanese: “エウフラテス川”
  • Japanese: “ユーフラテス”
  • Japanese: “ユーフラテス川”
  • Japanese: “ユーフラテス河”
  • Javanese: “Kali Éfrat”
  • Javanese: “Kali Furat”
  • Kannada: “ಯೂಫ್ರೆಟೀಸ್”
  • Kashmiri: “دریائے فِرات”
  • Kashubian: “Eùfrat”
  • Kazakh: “Евфрат”
  • Kirghiz: “Евфрат”
  • Korean: “에우프라테스 강”
  • Korean: “유프라테스”
  • Korean: “유프라테스강”
  • Korean: “푸라트 강”
  • Korean: “푸라트강”
  • Kurdish: “Ava Firat”
  • Kurdish: “Çemê Firatê”
  • Kurdish: “Ferad”
  • Kurdish: “Ferat”
  • Kurdish: “Firat”
  • Latin: “Euphrates”
  • Latin: “Perath”
  • Latvian: “Eifrata”
  • Limburgan: “Eufraat”
  • Lingala: “Ufrate”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Rio Eufrates”
  • Lithuanian: “Eufratas”
  • Low German: “Euphrat”
  • Luxembourgish: “Euphrat”
  • Macedonian: “Еуфрат”
  • Malagasy: “Eofrata”
  • Malay: “Euphrates”
  • Malay: “Sungai Euphrates”
  • Malay: “Sungai Furat”
  • Malayalam: “Euphrates”
  • Malayalam: “യൂഫ്രട്ടീസ് നദി”
  • Malayalam: “യൂഫ്രട്ടീസ്”
  • Maori: “Uparāti”
  • Marathi: “युफ्रेटिस नदी”
  • Marathi: “युफ्रेटिस”
  • Marathi: “युफ्रेतिस नदी”
  • Mazanderani: “فرات”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Báik-lăk Ò̤”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Euphrates Ò̤”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Euphrates Hô”
  • Mingrelian: “ევფრატი”
  • Mongolian: “Евфрат мөрөн”
  • Nepali: “युफ्रेटिस नदी”
  • Newari: “युफ्रेटस”
  • Northern Frisian: “Euphrat”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Al-Furat”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Eufrat”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Firat”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Eufrat”
  • Norwegian: “Eufrat”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Eufrates”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܢܗܪܐ ܕܦܪܬ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܦܪܬ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ࡐࡓࡀࡔ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ࡐࡓࡀࡕ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Eufrāte”
  • Old Persian (ca. 600-400 B.C.): “Ufrātu”
  • Ossetian: “Евфрат”
  • Panjabi: “ਫ਼ਰਾਤ”
  • Persian: “رود فرات”
  • Persian: “رودخانه فرات”
  • Persian: “رودخانهٔ فرات”
  • Persian: “فرات”
  • Polish: “Eufrat”
  • Polish: “Nahr al-Furat”
  • Portuguese: “Eufrates”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Eufrates”
  • Pushto: “فرات”
  • Romanian: “Eufrat”
  • Russian: “Евфрат”
  • Russian: “Ефрат”
  • Rusyn: “Евфрат”
  • Scots: “Euphrates river”
  • Scots: “Euphrates”
  • Serbian: “Еуфрат”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Eufrat”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Еуфрат”
  • Sicilian: “Eufrati”
  • Sinhala: “යුප්‍රටීස්”
  • Slovak: “Eufrat”
  • Slovenian: “Evfrat”
  • Somali: “Furaat”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فرات”
  • Spanish: “Eufrates”
  • Spanish: “Eúfrates”
  • Spanish: “Éufrates”
  • Spanish: “Rio Eufrates”
  • Spanish: “Rio Éufrates”
  • Spanish: “Río Eufrates”
  • Spanish: “Río Éufrates”
  • Sumerian: “Buranuna”
  • Swahili: “Eufrate”
  • Swahili: “Frati”
  • Swahili: “Mto Frati”
  • Swedish: “Al-Furat”
  • Swedish: “Eufrat”
  • Swedish: “Eufrats”
  • Swedish: “Firat”
  • Swedish: “Frat”
  • Swedish: “Frot”
  • Swedish: “Furat”
  • Swiss German: “Euphrat”
  • Tagalog: “Eufrates”
  • Tagalog: “Eufratis”
  • Tagalog: “Euphrates River”
  • Tagalog: “Euphrates”
  • Tagalog: “Euprates”
  • Tagalog: “Eupratis”
  • Tagalog: “Fırat”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog Eufrates”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog Eufratis”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog Euphrates”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog Euprates”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog Eupratis”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog ng Eufrates”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog ng Eufratis”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog ng Euphrates”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog ng Euprates”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog ng Eupratis”
  • Tagalog: “Nahr ul-Furat”
  • Tagalog: “Nahr ul-Furāt”
  • Tagalog: “Perat”
  • Tagalog: “Pĕrāṯ”
  • Tagalog: “Prat”
  • Tagalog: “Prāṯ”
  • Tajik: “дарёи Фурот”
  • Tajik: “Фурот”
  • Tamil: “இயுபிரட்டீஸ் ஆறு”
  • Tamil: “இயூபிரட்டீசு ஆறு”
  • Tamil: “இயூபிரட்டீசு”
  • Tamil: “இயூபிரட்டீஸ் ஆறு”
  • Tamil: “புராத்து ஆறு”
  • Tamil: “புறாத்து ஆறு”
  • Tamil: “யூபிரிடிஸ்”
  • Tamil: “யூபிரேட்டிஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Yefrat yılğası”
  • Telugu: “యూఫ్రటీసు నది”
  • Telugu: “యూఫ్రటీస్”
  • Thai: “Euphrates”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำยูเฟรติส”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำยูเฟรทีส”
  • Thai: “ยูเฟรตีส”
  • Thai: “ยูเฟรทีส”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Euphrat”
  • Turkish: “Euphrates”
  • Turkish: “Firat”
  • Turkish: “Fırat Irmağı”
  • Turkish: “Fırat Nehri”
  • Turkish: “Fırat”
  • Ukrainian: “Евфрат”
  • Ukrainian: “Євфрат”
  • Urdu: “دریائے فرات”
  • Urdu: “فرات”
  • Uzbek: “Furot daryosi”
  • Uzbek: “Furot”
  • Venetian: “Fiume Éufrates”
  • Vietnamese: “Euphrate”
  • Vietnamese: “Euphrates”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông Euphrates”
  • Vietnamese: “Yêu Phách”
  • Vlaams: “Eufroat”
  • Walloon: “Aiwe-d‘-Ufrate”
  • Walloon: “Eufrate”
  • Walloon: “Ufrate (aiwe)”
  • Walloon: “Ufrate”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Eufrates”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Éufrates”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Euphrates”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Euprates”
  • Welsh: “Afon Euphrates”
  • Welsh: “Afon Ewffrates”
  • Welsh: “Ewffrates”
  • Western Armenian: “Եփրատ գետ”
  • Western Frisian: “Eufraat”
  • Western Panjabi: “دریاۓ فرات”
  • Wu Chinese: “幼发拉底河”
  • Yakut: “Эуфрат”
  • Yiddish: “פרת”
  • Yue Chinese: “幼發拉底河”
  • “फ़रात नदी”

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