Spatial extension of marshes and swamps:

Zaid Hakim Jiyad
Under the supervision of Lect. Dr. Ali Khazal Jawad

Spatial extension is the final result of a set of relationships that determine the location and size of the phenomenon. Extension means answering the question: Where is the phenomenon distributed? Or where is the phenomenon located? And why did it become in its current form?
The location is the heart of geography and for the phenomenon to take a location for itself, phenomena are distributed on the surface of the earth and every phenomenon must have a special form for its spread, which we call the pattern.
The phenomenon of marshes and swamps appears natural in most or all river deltas in the world, but the phenomenon of marshes and swamps in Iraq appears to have a special specificity, and the specificity is not limited to the abundance of marshes and swamps in the Iraqi alluvial plain only, but also in their spread, distribution and relative regularity of their distribution.
The marshes consist of a group of swamps and lakes, most of which extend between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, some of which extend on the left side of the Tigris River adjacent to Iran.
The word marsh, plural marshes, is a common term in Iraq to refer to a widespread lake that is usually shallow and shallow in most places and is dominated by swamps and aquatic thickets made up mostly of reeds and papyrus. Marshes are a name given to low-lying lands that are covered by water, whether all or some of the year, and there is no clear difference between marshes and swamps.