Raimangal River
Location
CountryIndia, Bangladesh
StateWest Bengal
Physical characteristics
Discharge 
 • locationBay of Bengal

Raimangal River (Bengali: রায়মঙ্গল নদী) is a tidal estuarine river in and around the Sundarbans in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal and Satkhira District in Bangladesh.

The Ichamati breaks up into several distributaries below Hingalganj the chief of which are the Raimangal, Bidya, Jhilla, Kalindi and Jamuna. These fan out into wide estuaries in the Sundarbans.[1] It forms the international boundary between India and Bangladesh for some distance.[2]

References

  1. ^ Mandal, Asim Kumar (2003). The Sundarbans of India: a development analysis By Asim Kumar Mandal. Indus. ISBN 9788173871436. Retrieved 18 November 2009.
  2. ^ Md Abdur Rob (2012). "Ganges-Padma River System". In Sirajul Islam and Ahmed A. Jamal (ed.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.

22°15′31″N 88°57′09″E / 22.2586800°N 88.9524600°E / 22.2586800; 88.9524600


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