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Key facts
- Country
- Iran , Iraq
- Location
- North of Iraq/Western Iran
- Length
- 445 km (277 mi)
- Basin size
- 32,600 km (12,600 sq mi)
- Average
- 164 m /s (5,800 cu ft/s)
- Left
- Sirwan
- Right
- Tanjero
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Wikidata facts
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- Commons category
- Diyala River
- watershed area
- 30000
- mouth of the watercourse
- Tigris
- discharge
- 130
- origin of the watercourse
- Zagros Mountains
- basin country
- Iran
- tributary
- Bil Spring
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
- impounded by
- Hemrin Dam
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Diyala (Arabic: نهر ديالى Nahr Diyālā; Kurdish: Sîrwan; Farsi: دیاله Diyâlah, سيروان Sīrvān) is a river and tributary of the Tigris. It is formed by the confluence of the Sirwan and Tanjaro rivers in Darbandikhan Dam in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate of Northern Iraq. It covers a total distance of 445 km (277 mi).
Course
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Diyala River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.