Padma River
The Padma is a major river in Bangladesh. It is the eastern and main distributary of the Ganges, flowing generally southeast for 356 kilometres to its confluence with the Meghna River, near the Bay of Bengal.
- Type: Section of a stream
- Description: major river in Bangladesh
- Also known as: “Lower Gangā”, “Padmâ”, “Podda”, “دریاۓ پاڈما”, and “ポッダ川”
Padma River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Bangladesh, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
23.39056° or 23° 23′ 26″ north
Longitude
90.5575° or 90° 33′ 27″ east
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
Open location code
7MMG9HR5+62
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Padma River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر بدما”
- Armenian: “Պադմա գետ”
- Assamese: “পদ্মা নদী”
- Asturian: “Ríu Padma”
- Basque: “Padma”
- Bengali: “পদ্মা নদী”
- Bengali: “পদ্মা”
- Bhojpuri: “पदमा नदी”
- Catalan: “Padma”
- Chinese: “博多河”
- Chinese: “帕德玛河”
- Chuvash: “Падма”
- Czech: “Padma”
- Dutch: “Padma River”
- Dutch: “Padma”
- Esperanto: “Padmo”
- Estonian: “Padma”
- Finnish: “Padma”
- French: “Padma”
- Georgian: “პადმა”
- German: “Padma”
- Hebrew: “פדמה”
- Hindi: “पद्मा नदी”
- Hindi: “पद्मा”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Padma”
- Italian: “Padma”
- Japanese: “パドマ川”
- Kashmiri: “پَدما دٔرؠ یاو”
- Korean: “파드마강”
- Latin: “flumen Loti”
- Latin: “Padma”
- Latvian: “Padma”
- Lithuanian: “Padma”
- Macedonian: “Падма”
- Malayalam: “പത്മ നദി”
- Marathi: “पद्मा नदी”
- Nepali: “पद्मा नदी”
- Northern Frisian: “Padma”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Padma-elva”
- Panjabi: “ਪਦਮਾ ਦਰਿਆ”
- Persian: “رود پادما”
- Portuguese: “Rio Padma”
- Russian: “Падма”
- Sanskrit: “पद्मानदी”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Padma”
- Slovak: “Padma”
- Slovenian: “Padma”
- Spanish: “Padma”
- Spanish: “Río Padma”
- Tamil: “பத்மா ஆறு”
- Tamil: “பத்மா நதி”
- Telugu: “పద్మ నది”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำปัทมา”
- Turkish: “Padma Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Падма”
- Urdu: “دریائے پدما”
- Venetian: “Fiume Padma”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Padma”
- Welsh: “Afon Padma”
- Western Panjabi: “پدما دریا”
- Western Panjabi: “دریاۓ پدما”
- “पदमा नदी”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Baherchar and Nasirākāndi.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Phatan Bazar and Dakatia River.
Bangladesh: Must-Visit Destinations
Worth a closer look: Dhaka and Chittagong.
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