The Kumar River ( bn, কুমার নদী) is a river in south-western Bangladesh.
Course
The Kumar River takes off from the
Mathabhanga River
The Mathabhanga River ( bn, মাথাভাংগা নদী) is a transboundary river between India and Bangladesh.
Journey and Importance
The Mathabhanga or Hauli, whose lower reach is called the Haulia, leaves the Padma River, Padma about ...
at
Hatboalia and follows a circuitous course to the east and south-east, for a long distance forming the boundary between
Kushtia District
Kushtia District ( bn, কুষ্টিয়া জেলা, pronunciation: ''kuʃʈia'') is a district in the Khulna administrative division of western Bangladesh. Kushtia is the second largest municipality in Bangladesh and the eleventh l ...
to the north and
Alamdanga Upazila
Alamdanga ( bn, আলমডাঙ্গা) is an upazila of Chuadanga District in the Division of Khulna, Bangladesh.
It covers an area of .
Geography
Alamdanga is located at . It has 44,699 households and total area 360.4 km2.
Demographic ...
of
Chuadanga District
Chuadanga ( bn, চুয়াডাঙ্গা, tʃuaɖaŋga), is a district of the western Khulna Division of Bangladesh. It is bordered by the Indian state of West Bengal to the west, Meherpur District to the northwest, Jessore District to ...
and
Harinakunda Upazila
Harinakundu ( bn, হরিণাকুন্ড) is an upazila of Jhenaidah District in the Division of Khulna, Bangladesh.
Geography
Harinakunda is located at . It has 27,408 households and total area 227.19 km2.
Demographics
According to ...
of
Jhenaidah District
Jhenaidah District ( bn, ঝিনাইদহ) is a district in southwestern Bangladesh. It is a part of the Khulna Division. It has an area of . It is bordered by Kushtia District to the north, Jessore District and West Bengal, India to the so ...
to the south. Finally it joins the
Nabaganga River
Nabaganga ( bn, নবগঙ্গা নদী) is the fourth-biggest river in Bangladesh and a tributary of Mathabhanga.
Name
The river was named Nabaganga (New Ganges in Bengali) in the belief that the Ganges also derived from Mathabhanga. T ...
near
Magura town.
The other two branch rivers which take off from the Mathabhanga and are among the principal water courses both for communication and natural irrigation, are the
Nabaganga River
Nabaganga ( bn, নবগঙ্গা নদী) is the fourth-biggest river in Bangladesh and a tributary of Mathabhanga.
Name
The river was named Nabaganga (New Ganges in Bengali) in the belief that the Ganges also derived from Mathabhanga. T ...
and the
Chitra River
The Chitra River is located in southwestern Bangladesh. It is one of the large coastal rivers of the Ganges-Padma system. It joins with the Nabaganga, and then flows into the Bhairab River
Bhairab River ( bn, ভৈরব নদী) is a riv ...
. The remains of old flourishing villages and
Indigo
Indigo is a deep color close to the color wheel blue (a primary color in the RGB color space), as well as to some variants of ultramarine, based on the ancient dye of the same name. The word "indigo" comes from the Latin word ''indicum'', m ...
Planters' ''
Kathibary'' (factory house) on the silted up course still mark their past importance. The dry beds of these two channels like that of the course of the Bhairab are still shown in the
survey
Survey may refer to:
Statistics and human research
* Statistical survey, a method for collecting quantitative information about items in a population
* Survey (human research), including opinion polls
Spatial measurement
* Surveying, the techniq ...
maps of
Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...
.
References
Rivers of Bangladesh
Rivers of Khulna Division
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