đ Bangladesh's Waterways
Rivers of Bangladesh
Explore the major and regional rivers that shape Bangladesh's geography, tourism, and economy.
Padma
Bangladesh's principal river and the backbone of the Padma Bridge economic corridor.
Jamuna (Brahmaputra)
One of the widest braided rivers in the world, spanned by the Bangabandhu Jamuna Bridge.
Meghna
Bangladesh's widest and deepest river, and its busiest inland passenger-launch corridor.
Karnaphuli
The lifeline of the Chittagong Hill Tracts and the deep-water channel of Chattogram Port.
Buriganga
The historic river of Dhaka, home to the city's main inland river port, Sadarghat.
Teesta
The lifeline of the northern Rangpur region and a long-running subject of the Bangladesh-India water-sharing dispute.
Old Brahmaputra
The historic main course of the Brahmaputra before an 1897 earthquake shifted its flow west into the Jamuna.
Madhumati
The main river of the Jashore-Gopalganj-Narail region of southwestern Bangladesh.
Rupsha
The lifeline of Khulna city and its historic jute-mill economy; the river gateway to the Sundarbans.