List of cities and towns on the Euphrates River

Other towns like Elif, Hasanoğlu and Hisar in the Araban district of Gaziantep date back to Roman times.

[2] Finally, the Tishrin Dam (Arabic: سد تشرين, romanized: Sadd Tišrīn, literally October Dam) is located 90 kilometres (56 mi) east of Aleppo in Aleppo Governorate, Syria and 80 kilometres (50 mi) south of the Syro-Turkish border.

Between the Syrian border and the town of Hit (in the Heet District),[3] shoals and rapids make the river commercially unnavigable.

North of Basra, in southern Iraq, the river merges with the Tigris to form the Shatt al-Arab, this in turn empties into the Persian Gulf.

The following section lists the cities and town in order along the Euphrates river, within the Al Anbar province.