Basra

Basra is Iraq's southern port city, historically known as the Venice of the East.

Did you know Basra sits on the Shatt al-Arab waterway, where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers meet before flowing into the Persian Gulf, making it Iraq's crucial gateway to the sea?

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