Surma River
The Surma is a major transboundary river in Bangladesh and Assam, part of the Surma-Meghna River System. It starts when the Barak River from northeast India divides at the Bangladesh border into the Surma and the Kushiyara rivers at the junction of Cachar and Karimganj districts.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Bangladesh
- Also known as: “Kalni”, “Kusiara”, and “সুরমা”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sunamganj.
Surma River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Bangladesh, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
25.00887° or 25° 0′ 32″ north
Longitude
91.34877° or 91° 20′ 56″ east
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
Open location code
7MQH285X+GG
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In Other Languages
From Assamese to Western Panjabi—“Surma River” goes by many names.
- Assamese: “সুৰমা নদী”
- Asturian: “Ríu Surma”
- Bengali: “সুরমা নদী”
- Bhojpuri: “सुरमा नदी”
- Bulgarian: “Сурма”
- Catalan: “Kusiyara”
- Cebuano: “Surma River”
- Dutch: “Surma River”
- Dutch: “Surma”
- French: “Surma”
- Georgian: “სურმა”
- Hindi: “सुरमा नदी”
- Hindi: “सूरमा नदी”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Surma”
- Irish: “Abhainn Surma”
- Italian: “Surma”
- Japanese: “スルマ川”
- Malayalam: “സുറുമ റിവർ”
- Polish: “Surma”
- Russian: “Сурма”
- Slovenian: “Surma”
- Swedish: “Surma River”
- Sylheti: “ꠡꠥꠞꠝꠣ ꠉꠣꠋꠉ”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำซูร์มา”
- Ukrainian: “Сурма”
- Welsh: “Afon Surma”
- Western Panjabi: “دریائے سرما”
- Western Panjabi: “دریاۓ سرما”
- “सुरमा नदी”
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