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Bytomka

The 883rd longest river in the world

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Bytomka (Beuthener Wasser or Iserbach) is a river located in southern Poland, in Silesia. It is approximately 19.2 km (11.9 mi) in length. In the interwar period it was a part of the Germany-Poland border. The river is highly polluted with heavy metals, notably cadmium, copper, mercury, nickel and zinc. The cause of pollution is thought to be human activity.

Flows through: Poland.

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

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