Raimangal River ( bn, রায়মঙ্গল নদী) is a tidal estuarine river in and around the
Sundarbans in
South 24 Parganas district
South 24 Parganas (Pron: pɔrɡɔnɔs; abbr. 24 PGS (S)), or sometimes South Twenty Four Parganas and Dakshin 24 Parganas, is a district in the Indian state of West Bengal, headquartered in Alipore. It is the largest district of West Bengal by ...
in the
India
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n
state of
West Bengal
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and
Satkhira District in
Bangladesh
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.
The
Ichamati breaks up into several distributaries below
Hingalganj
Hingalganj is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Basirhat subdivision of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Etymology
The name Hingalganj came after the name of Tillman Henkel, distr ...
the chief of which are the Raimangal,
Bidya
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, Jhilla,
Kalindi and Jamuna. These fan out into wide estuaries in the Sundarbans.
It forms the international boundary between India and Bangladesh for some distance.
References
Sundarbans
International rivers of Asia
Rivers of West Bengal
Rivers of Bangladesh
Geography of South 24 Parganas district
Satkhira District
Rivers of India
Rivers of Khulna Division
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