Middle East
Turkey
Elazığ Province

Tigris

The Tigris is the eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the . The river flows south from the mountains of the Armenian Highlands through the and Arabian Deserts, before merging with the and reaching to the .
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Çanakça and Kayranlı.

Village
is a village in the of in Turkey. Its population is 51. The village is populated by Kurds.

Village
is a village in the of in Turkey. Its population is 112. The village is populated by Kurds. is situated 3 km northeast of Tigris.

Village
is a village in the of in Turkey. Its population is 115. The village is populated by Kurds. is situated 5 km northeast of Tigris.

Tigris

Latitude
38.43333° or 38° 26′ north
Longitude
39.77278° or 39° 46′ 22″ east
Elevation
1,095 metres (3,593 feet)
Open location code
8GCXCQMF+84
Geo­Names ID
9167921
Wiki­data ID
Q35591
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Tigris” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tigris”
  • Afrikaans: “Tigrisrivier”
  • Amharic: “ጤግሮስ ወንዝ”
  • Amharic: “ጤግሮስ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Τίγρις”
  • Arabic: “دجلة”
  • Arabic: “دجله”
  • Arabic: “سن الصخر”
  • Arabic: “طول نهر دجلة”
  • Arabic: “نهر الدجلة”
  • Arabic: “نهر دجلة”
  • Armenian: “Տիգրիս”
  • Asturian: “Tigris”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dəclə”
  • Bashkir: “Тигр”
  • Basque: “Tigris ibaia”
  • Basque: “Tigris”
  • Belarusian: “Тыгр”
  • Bengali: “তাইগ্রিস”
  • Bengali: “দজলা”
  • Bhojpuri: “दज़ला नदी”
  • Bosnian: “Tigris”
  • Breton: “Tigr”
  • Breton: “Tigris”
  • Bulgarian: “Река Тигър”
  • Bulgarian: “Тигър”
  • Burmese: “တိုင်းဂရစ်မြစ်”
  • Catalan: “Didjla”
  • Catalan: “Dijla”
  • Catalan: “Riu Tigris”
  • Catalan: “Tigris”
  • Cebuano: “Tigris River”
  • Central Bikol: “Tigris”
  • Central Kurdish: “دیجلە”
  • Chinese: “Tigris Hô”
  • Chinese: “希底結河”
  • Chinese: “希底结河”
  • Chinese: “底格里斯河”
  • Chuvash: “Тигр”
  • Croatian: “Tigris”
  • Czech: “Chidekel”
  • Czech: “Dicle Nehri”
  • Czech: “Didžla”
  • Czech: “Dîjle”
  • Czech: “Tigris”
  • Danish: “Tigris”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Roê Dicley”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Royê Dicley”
  • Dutch: “Tigris”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نهر دجله”
  • Esperanto: “Tigris”
  • Esperanto: “Tigriso”
  • Esperanto: “Tigro”
  • Estonian: “Tigris”
  • Extremaduran: “Tigris”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Tigris”
  • Finnish: “Tigris”
  • French: “Hiddékel”
  • French: “Tigre”
  • Galician: “Río Tigris”
  • Galician: “Tigris”
  • Georgian: “ტიგრი”
  • Georgian: “ტიგროსი”
  • German: “Didschla”
  • German: “Tigris”
  • Greek: “Τίγρης ποταμός”
  • Greek: “Τίγρης”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tí-kiet-lî-sṳ̂-hò”
  • Hausa: “Kogin Tigris”
  • Hebrew: “החידקל”
  • Hebrew: “חידקל”
  • Hebrew: “נהר חידקל”
  • Hindi: “टाइग्रिस”
  • Hindi: “दजला नदी”
  • Hungarian: “Idigina”
  • Hungarian: “Idiglat”
  • Hungarian: “Tigris folyó”
  • Hungarian: “Tigris”
  • Icelandic: “Tigris”
  • Icelandic: “Tígris”
  • Ido: “Tigris”
  • Indonesian: “Sungai Tigris”
  • Indonesian: “Tigris”
  • Irish: “An Tígris”
  • Italian: “Fiume Tigri”
  • Italian: “Tigri”
  • Japanese: “チグリス”
  • Japanese: “チグリス川”
  • Japanese: “ティグリス”
  • Japanese: “ティグリス川”
  • Javanese: “Kali Tigris”
  • Javanese: “Tigris”
  • Kannada: “ಟೈಗ್ರಿಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Тигр”
  • Kirghiz: “Тигр”
  • Korean: “디쥘라 강”
  • Korean: “디쥘라강”
  • Korean: “티그리스”
  • Korean: “티그리스강”
  • Korean: “히데켈”
  • Kurdish: “Ava Mezin”
  • Kurdish: “Çemê Dîcle”
  • Kurdish: “Çemê Dîcleyê”
  • Kurdish: “Dîcle”
  • Kurdish: “Robarê Dîcleyê”
  • Latin: “Hiddekl”
  • Latin: “Tigris”
  • Latvian: “Didžle”
  • Latvian: “Dīdžle”
  • Latvian: “Tigra”
  • Limburgan: “Tigris”
  • Lingala: “Tigre”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Rio Tigris”
  • Lithuanian: “Tigras”
  • Lombard: “Tigri”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tigris”
  • Macedonian: “Тигар”
  • Maithili: “दजला नदी”
  • Malagasy: “Tigrisy”
  • Malay: “Sungai Dajlah”
  • Malay: “Sungai Tigris”
  • Malay: “Tigris”
  • Malayalam: “Tigris”
  • Malayalam: “ടൈഗ്രിസ് നദി”
  • Malayalam: “ടൈഗ്രിസ്”
  • Marathi: “तिग्रीस नदी”
  • Marathi: “तैग्रिस नदी”
  • Mazanderani: “دجله”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “دجلة”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “نهر دجلة”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Hĭ-dī-giék Ò̤”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Tigris Ò̤”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tigris Hô”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tigris”
  • Mingrelian: “ტიგრი”
  • Mingrelian: “ტიგროსი”
  • Mongolian: “Тигр мөрөн”
  • Nepali: “टाइग्रिस नदी”
  • Nepali: “टिग्रिस नदी”
  • Newari: “तिग्रिस खुसि”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tiigris”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hiddekel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tigris”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tigris”
  • Norwegian: “Tigris”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tigre (riu)”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tigre”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܕܩܠܬ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܢܗܪܐ ܕܕܩܠܬ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܢܗܪܐ ܕܫܠܡܐ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ࡃࡉࡂࡋࡀࡕ”
  • Ossetian: “Тигр”
  • Panjabi: “ਦਜਲਾ ਦਰਿਆ”
  • Panjabi: “ਦਜਲਾ”
  • Persian: “دجله”
  • Persian: “رود دجله”
  • Persian: “رودخانه دجله”
  • Persian: “رودخانهٔ دجله”
  • Polish: “Nahr Didżla”
  • Polish: “Tygrys”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Tigre”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Tígris”
  • Portuguese: “Tigre”
  • Portuguese: “Tígris”
  • Romanian: “Râul Tigru”
  • Romanian: “Tigru”
  • Russian: “Тигр”
  • Rusyn: “Тигрис”
  • Rusyn: “Тіґріс”
  • Scots: “Tigris”
  • Serbian: “Река Тигар”
  • Serbian: “Тигар”
  • Serbian: “Тигрис”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rijeka Tigar”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tigar”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tigris”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Тигар”
  • Sicilian: “Tigri”
  • Sinhala: “tigiris”
  • Sinhala: “ටයිග්‍රීස්”
  • Slovak: “Tigris”
  • Slovenian: “Tigris”
  • Somali: “Tigris”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دجله چایی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دجله”
  • Spanish: “Hidequel”
  • Spanish: “Rio Tigris”
  • Spanish: “Río Tigris”
  • Spanish: “Tigris”
  • Swahili: “Hidekeli”
  • Swahili: “Tigri”
  • Swedish: “Deqlath”
  • Swedish: “Dicle”
  • Swedish: “Dijla”
  • Swedish: “Tigris”
  • Swiss German: “Tigris”
  • Tagalog: “Dicle”
  • Tagalog: “Hiddecel”
  • Tagalog: “Hiddekel”
  • Tagalog: “Hidekel”
  • Tagalog: “Hidesel”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog na Tigris”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog ng Tigris”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog Tigris”
  • Tagalog: “Nahr Dijlah”
  • Tagalog: “Tigris River”
  • Tagalog: “Tigris”
  • Tajik: “Дарёи Тигрис”
  • Tajik: “Даҷла”
  • Tamil: “டைகிரிசு ஆறு”
  • Tamil: “டைகிரிசு”
  • Tamil: “டைகிரிஸ் ஆறு”
  • Tamil: “டைகிரிஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Tigr yılğası”
  • Tatar: “Тигр”
  • Thai: “ไทกริส”
  • Thai: “ไทกรีส”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำไทกริส”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำไทกรีส”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Tigris”
  • Turkish: “Dicle Irmağı”
  • Turkish: “Dicle Nehri”
  • Turkish: “Dicle”
  • Turkish: “Tigris”
  • Ukrainian: “Тигр”
  • Urdu: “دجلہ”
  • Urdu: “دریائے دجلہ”
  • Uzbek: “Dajla”
  • Venetian: “Fiume Tigris”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông Tigris”
  • Vietnamese: “Tigris”
  • Vlaams: “Tigris”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tigris”
  • Welsh: “Afon Tigris”
  • Western Armenian: “Տիգրիս”
  • Western Frisian: “Tigris”
  • Western Panjabi: “دریاۓ دجلہ”
  • Western Panjabi: “دیا باکر”
  • Wu Chinese: “底格里斯河”
  • Yakut: “Тигрис”
  • Yiddish: “חידקל”
  • Yiddish: “טיגריס טייך”
  • Yue Chinese: “底格里斯河”
  • “दज़ला नदी”

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