Which river flows through Baghdad?

The Tigris River flows through Baghdad.

Baghdad, Iraq’s capital, stands on the banks of the Tigris in the historic region of Mesopotamia. The river is the eastern of the two great waterways traditionally associated with Mesopotamia; the Euphrates is the western one. Together, they supported some of the world’s earliest urban civilizations through irrigation and fertile floodplains.

The Tigris rises in the Taurus Mountains of eastern Turkey and flows south through Turkey and Iraq, with a short section forming part of the Syria–Turkey border. Major cities along its route include Mosul, Tikrit, Samarra and Baghdad. Near al-Qurnah in southern Iraq, it joins the Euphrates to form the Shatt al-Arab, which reaches the Persian Gulf.

The Euphrates is the most tempting wrong answer because it is closely linked to the same river system and lies near the Tigris in Iraq. However, Baghdad itself is situated directly on the Tigris. The river has also faced pressure from dams, declining water supplies, pollution and climate change.