Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

 is a riverine country. About 800 rivers including tributaries flow through the country constituting a waterway of total length around 24,140 km. Most of the country's land is formed through silt

Silt

Silt is granular material of a size somewhere between sand and clay whose mineral origin is quartz and feldspar. Silt may occur as a soil or as suspended sediment in a surface water body...

 brought by the rivers. Following is a list of some of the major rivers of Bangladesh:

• Atrai River
  Atrai River
  Atrai River flows in West Bengal and northern parts of Bangladesh.In ancient times the river was called Atrei and finds a mention in the Mahabharata. It is linked with Karatoya River. It originates in West Bengal and then after flowing through Dinajpur District of Bangladesh, it enters India again...
  
  
• Bangali River
  Bangali River
  The Bangali River is one of the main rivers in the northern part of Bangladesh . As of 2007, the river is in the news because of the possibility that it might merge with the Jamuna River, which could lead to major changes in the geography of the region.-Etymology:In the later part of the 18th...
  
  
• Balu River
  Balu River
  The Balu River, located in Bangladesh, is a tributary of the Shitalakshya River. It passes through the wetlands of Beel Belai and Dhaka before its junction with the Shitalakshya at Demra.-References:...
  
  
• Baral River
  Baral River
  Baral river is one of the offshoots of the Ganges, starts its journey at Charghat Upazila of Rajshahi District of Bangladesh. The Baral flows through Natore and Pabna meets with the Gumani at the east of Bhangura and finally meets with the Hurasagar river after joining with the Karatoya south of...
  
  
• Biskhali River
  Biskhali River
  The Biskhali is a river of Bangladesh. The river flows through Barguna District. On November 20, 2005, a navy patrol boat detained a trawler on the river for carrying smuggled goods worth Tk 20 crore....
  
  
• Bhairab River
  Bhairab River
  Bhairab River Bhairab River Bhairab River (Bengali: is a river in south of Bangladesh. It passes through Khulna, dividing the city into two parts. Bhairab River originates from Tengamari border of Meher pur district and passes through Jessore town. The river is approximately 100 miles long and 300...
  
  
• Brahmaputra River
  Brahmaputra River
  The Brahmaputra , also called Tsangpo-Brahmaputra, is a trans-boundary river and one of the major rivers of Asia. It is the only Indian river that is attributed the masculine gender and thus referred to as a in Indo-Aryan languages and languages with Indo-Aryan influence...
  
  
• Buriganga River
  Buriganga River
  The Buriganga River is the main river flowing beside Dhaka city, capital of Bangladesh. The average depth is and maximum depth is .-History:...
  
  
• Bura Gauranga River
  Bura Gauranga River
  The Bura Gauranga River is located in the Patuakhali district in Bangladesh. The river is most notably known for the sinking of a passenger ferry in May 2005, killing at least 27 people.-See also:*List of rivers in Bangladesh...
  
  
• Chiknai River
  Chiknai River
  The Chiknai another name Dangha-Early History:The Chiknai, which rises in the beels west of Chatmohor, receives an excess of flood water from the Padttla during the rains and falls into the Baral near the village of Faridpur...
  
  
• Chitra River
• Dakatia River
  Dakatia River
  -Early History:The first tributary that the Meghna receives after enteringNoakhali is the Dakatia river. "It is the combination ofseveral hill streams via Sonaichari, Pagli Boaljar and Kakri, etc.,originating from Tippera Hills. After traversIng a distance...
  
  
• Dhaleshwari River
  Dhaleshwari River
  The Dhaleshwari River is a 160-km-long distributary of the Jamuna River in central Bangladesh. It starts off the Jamuna near the northwestern tip of Tangail District. After that it divides into two branches: the north branch retains the name Dhaleshwari and merges with the other branch, the...
  
  
• Dhansiri River
  Dhansiri River
  Dhansiri is the main river of Golaghat District of Assam and the Dimapur District of Nagaland. It originates from Laisang peak of Nagaland. It flows through a distance of 352 km from south to north before joining the Brahmaputra on its south bank...
  
  
• Dharla River
  Dharla River
  The Dharla River is one of Bangladesh's trans-boundary rivers. It originates in the Himalayas where it is known as the Jaldhaka River, and then it flows through the Jalpaiguri and Cooch Behar districts of West Bengal, India, one of the seven main rivers to do so...
  
  
• Dhepa River
  Dhepa River
  The Dhepa is a small river in northern Bangladesh. The river originates from the Atrai river in Mohanpur and falls into the Punarbhaba. The length of this river is 40 kilometers or 25 miles and the depth of this river is 6 meters or 18 feet....
  
  
• Dhanu River
  Dhanu River
  The Dhanu is a river in Bangladesh.The Dhanu, also called the Ghorautra, is a tributary of the Meghna. It flows directly southwards from Sunamganj in Sylhet through theeastern thanas of Netrakona and Kishoreganj. It is navigableyear-round...
  
  
• Feni River
  Feni River
  Feni River is a river in the Indian state of Tripura and southeastern Bangladesh. It is a trans-boundary river with an on-going dispute.But recently India, Bangladesh finalised deal on Teesta, Feni river waters...
  
  
• Garai River
  Garai River
  The Garai River is a river that flows through Bangladesh. It takes off from the Ganges not far from Kushtia, and after flowing in a south-easterly direction, past Kumarkhali and Khoksa, passes over the border into the Goalundo subdivision of Faridpur District. It throws out two unimportant...
  
  
• Gorai-Madhumati River
  Gorai-Madhumati River
  The Gorai-Madhumati River is one of the longest rivers in Bangladesh and a distributary of the Ganges....
  
  
• Halda River
  Halda River
  Halda River is a river in South-Eastern Bangladesh. It originates at the Badnatali Hill Ranges in Ramgarh Upazila in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, flows through Fatikchhari Upazila, Hathazari Upazila, Raozan Upazila and Chittagong Kotwali Thana, and falls into the Karnaphuli River...
  
  
• Ichhamati River
  Ichamati River
  Ichamati River , is a trans-boundary river which flows through India and Bangladesh and also forms the boundary between the two countries. The river is facing the problem of siltation leading to thin flow of water in the dry season and floods in the rainy season...
  
  
• Jaldhaka River
  Jaldhaka River
  The Jaldhaka River is a trans-boundary river with a length of 192 kilometres that originates in southeastern Sikkim in the eastern Himalayas and flows through Bhutan and the Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri and Cooch Behar districts of West Bengal, India...
  
  
• Jamuna River
• Jinai River
  Jinai River
  The Jinai River is striking off near Jamalpur and rejoining the Jamunanorth of Sarisabari.-Early History:The old Brahmaputra's most important off-shoot is the Jinai striking off near Jamalpur and rejoining the Jamuna north of Sarisabari. Its another branch flows past Gopalpur....
  
  
• Kaliganga River
  Kaliganga River
  The Kaliganga River is a river in Bangladesh.- Early History:The Kaliganga takes off from the Garai just below the Kushtiatown and flows straight to the south and enters Jhenaidah...
  
  
• Kangsha River
  Kangsha River
  Kangsha River is a river in the northern parts of Mymensingh and Netrakona districts of Bangladesh. The Someshwari is one of the rivers that join it from the north.-Early History:At Gaglajuri the Dhanu is joined by the Kangsna which...
  
  
• Karatoya River
  Karatoya River
  Karatoya River , a small stream in Rajshahi Division of Bangladesh, was once a large and sacred river. A channel of it presently flows by the ancient ruins of Mahasthangarh in Bogra District. The Karatoya mahatmya bears testimony to its past greatness...
  
  
• Karnaphuli River
  Karnaphuli River
  Karnaphuli is a wide river in the south-eastern part of Bangladesh. Originating from the Lushai hills in Mizoram, India, it flows southwest through Chittagong Hill Tracts and Chittagong into the Bay of Bengal. A large hydroelectric power plant using Karnaphuli river was built in the Kaptai...
  
  
• Kazipur River
  Kazipur River
  Kazipur River stand on Kazipur Upazila in Serajganj District. Its flows south through the Kazipur thana and joins the Ichhamati River.-Early History:...
  
  
• Khowai River
  Khowai River
  Khowai River originates from the eastern part of the Atharamura Hills of Hill Tripura in India. Flowing west and northward, the Khowai enters Bangladesh at Balla in Sylhet district. The river further flows beside the east of Habiganj town and debouches into the Meghna near the mouth of the Kalni at...
  
  
• Kirtankhola
  Kirtankhola
  Kirtankhola is a river that starts from Sayeshtabad in Barisal district and ends into the Gajalia near Gabkhan khal . The total length of the river is about 160 km....
  
  
• Kobadak River
• Kopothakho River
  Kopothakho River
  The Kopothakho River is a river of Bangladesh....
  
  
• Kumar River
  Kumar River
  The Kumar River -Early History:The Kumar takes off from Mathabhanga at Hatboalia andfollows a circuitous course to the east and south-east, past...
  
  
• Kushiyara River
  Kushiyara River
  The Kushiyara River is one of the many rivers in Bangladesh that crosses international boundaries. It is a branch of the Barak River, which originates in the state of Manipur in India and runs along the border of the Indian states of Manipur & Mizoram before getting split into Surma and Kushiyara...
  
  
• Mahananda River
  Mahananda River
  The Mahananda River is a trans-boundary river that flows through the Indian states of West Bengal and Bihar, and Bangladesh. Right bank tributary Mechi forms part of Nepal's eastern boundary with West Bengal and the Kankai crosses out of Nepal.-Course:...
  
  
• Manu River, Tripura
  Manu River, Tripura
  The Manu River rises in the mountains of Tripura . After its initial rapid passage through mountainous terrain it slows and meanders during its course, which includes the Sylhet plains. It joins the Kushiyara River at Manumukh in the Bangladeshi district of Maulvi Bazar.-External links:**...
  
  
• Mathabhanga River
  Mathabhanga River
  The Mathabhanga River -Early History:The Mathabhanga or Hauli, whose lower reach is called the Haulia, leaves the Padma about ten miles below the point where the Jalangi leaves from it...
  
  
• Meghna River
  Meghna River
  The Meghna River is an important river in Bangladesh, one of the three that forms the Ganges Delta, the largest on earth fanning out to the Bay of Bengal. Being a part of the Surma-Meghna River System, Meghna is formed inside Bangladesh by the joining of different rivers originaing from the hilly...
  
  
• Muhuri River
  Muhuri River
  Muhuri River one of the trans-boundary rivers of Bangladesh. The river takes its rise on the Lushai hills of Tripura in India and enters Bangladesh through Parshuram upazila of Feni district after flowing over the hilly regions of India. As such the river is wild in nature and often causes flash...
  
  
• Naf River
  Naf River
  Naf River It is an elongated estuary in the extreme southeast of Cox's Bazar district dividing the district from Arakan, Myanmar. It rises in the Arakan hills on the southeastern borders of the district and flows into the Bay of Bengal. Its width varies from 1.61 km to 3.22 km. The river...
  
  
• Nagar River
  Nagar River
  Nagar River is in the Bogra District of Bangladesh:-Early history:The Nagar is a branch of the Karatoya and serves as theboundary between the Sibganj and Bogra thanas, for about...
  
  
• Padma River
  Padma River
  The Padma is a major trans-boundary river in Bangladesh. It is the main distributary of the Ganges , which originates in the Himalayas. The Padma enters Bangladesh from India near Chapai Nababganj...
  
  
• Punarbhaba River
  Punarbhaba River
  The Punarbhaba is a river of Bangladesh and West Bengal in India, of total length about 160 km and a width of 3–8 km and it's mean depth is It originates from the lowlands of Thakurgaon District of Bangladesh. The river's upper part is a few kilometres west of Atrai. Dinajpur district...
  
  
• Pusur River
• Shitalakshya River
  Shitalakshya River
  Shitalakshya River is a distributary of the Brahmaputra. In its initial stages it flows in a southwest direction and then east of the city of Narayanganj in central Bangladesh until it merges with the Dhaleswari near Kalagachhiya. A portion of its upper course is known as Banar River...
  
  
• Surma River
  Surma River
  The Surma River is a major river in Bangladesh, part of the Surma-Meghna River System. It starts when the Barak River from northeast India divides at the Bangladesh border into the Surma and the Kushiyara rivers. It ends in Kishoreganj District, above Bhairab Bazar, where the two rivers rejoin to...
  
  
• Teesta River
  Teesta River
  River Teesta or Tista is said to be the lifeline of the Indian state of Sikkim, flowing for almost the entire length of the state and carving out verdant Himalayan temperate and tropical river valleys. The emerald-coloured river then forms the border between Sikkim and West Bengal before joining...
  
  
• Titas River
  Titas River
  Titas River is a trans-boundary river of south-eastern Bangladesh. It originates in the state of Tripura in India where it is known as Haora River in Bengali and Saidra in the local Kokborok language...
  
  
• Tulshiganga River
  Tulshiganga River
  Tulshiganga River is in Bogra District.-Early history:Tulshiganga is an important river of the district.It enters the district near the village of Mukindapur, in Panchbibi thana from the Dinajpur district. Entering this district it runs south-west in a meandering course till it falls in the...
  
  
• Turag River
  Turag River
  The Turag River is the upper tributary of the Buriganga, a major river in Bangladesh. The Turag originates from the Bangshi River, the latter an important tributary of the Dhaleshwari River, flows through Gazipur and joins the Buriganga at Mirpur in Dhaka District...
  
  

There are quite a few rivers in the district of Bogra

Bogra

Bogra is a town, and one of the oldest towns in northern Bangladesh. It is a centre of commerce and trade within the Bogra District and located under the Rajshahi Division. Bogra is sometimes described as the nerve centre of Northern Bangladesh. Amongst many notable activities, it has been hosting...

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