The Hanna Defile (Umm El-Hanna defile) is a narrow strip of dry land between the
River Tigris
The Tigris () is the easternmost of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of the Armenian Highlands through the Syrian and Arabian Deserts, and empties into the ...
and the
Suwaikiya Marshes.
Notes
Geography of Iraq
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