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Balu River

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Balu River, located in Bangladesh, is a tributary of the Shitalakshya River. The 44-km long Balu passes through the wetlands of Beel Belai and Dhaka before its confluence with the Shitalakshya at Demra.

Flows through: Bangladesh.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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