Iraq’s largest lake, in a depression between the Tigris and Euphrates on the border of Saladin and Anbar, fed from the Tigris.
It has shrunk sharply in recent years, as the 2024 satellite image shows.
Photos: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Lake Tharthar
بحيرة الثرثار
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