Hooghly River
The Hooghly River is the westernmost distributary of the Ganges, situated in West Bengal, India. It is known in its upper reaches as the Bhagirathi. The Bhagirathi splits off from the main branch of the Ganges at Giria.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in West Bengal, India
- Also known as: “Hooghly”, “Hûgli”, and “Hugli River”
Hooghly River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: West Bengal, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Hooghly River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر هوغلي”
- Asturian: “Ríu Hooghly”
- Bengali: “হুগলি নদী”
- Bengali: “হুগলী নদী”
- Bhojpuri: “भागीरथी”
- Bhojpuri: “हुगली गंगा”
- Bhojpuri: “हुगली नदी”
- Bhojpuri: “हुगली”
- Bulgarian: “Хугли (река)”
- Bulgarian: “Хугли”
- Catalan: “Bhagirathi-Hooghly”
- Catalan: “Bhagirathi-Hoogli”
- Catalan: “Bhagirathi-Hoogly”
- Catalan: “Bhagirathi-Hugli”
- Catalan: “riu Hugli”
- Catalan: “Riu Hugli”
- Cebuano: “Hugli River”
- Chinese: “胡格利河”
- Czech: “Huglí”
- Danish: “Hooghly-floden”
- Danish: “Hooghly”
- Danish: “Hugli”
- Danish: “River Hooghly”
- Dutch: “Hooghly”
- Dutch: “Hugli”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر هوجلى”
- Esperanto: “Huglo”
- Estonian: “Hooghly”
- Estonian: “Hugli”
- French: “Hooghly”
- French: “Hughli”
- French: “Hûghlî”
- French: “Ougly”
- Georgian: “ჰუგლი”
- German: “Hugli”
- Gujarati: “હુગલી નદી”
- Hebrew: “הוגלי”
- Hindi: “बागमती नदी”
- Hindi: “हुगली नदी”
- Hindi: “हुगली”
- Hungarian: “Húgli”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Hugli”
- Irish: “Abhainn an Hooghly”
- Irish: “An Hooghly”
- Italian: “Hughli”
- Japanese: “フーグリー川”
- Japanese: “フーグリ川”
- Japanese: “フグリー川”
- Korean: “후글리강”
- Latvian: “Hugli”
- Lithuanian: “Hugli”
- Macedonian: “Хугли”
- Malayalam: “Hooghly River”
- Malayalam: “ഹൂഗ്ലി നദി”
- Malayalam: “ഹൂഗ്ലി”
- Malayalam: “ഹൂഗ്ലീ നദി”
- Marathi: “हुगळी नदी”
- Marathi: “हूगळी नदी”
- Nepali: “हुगली नदी”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Elva Hooghly”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Elva Hoogly”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Elva Hugli”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hooghly River”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hooghly-elva”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hooghly”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hoogly River”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hoogly-elva”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hoogly”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hugli-elva”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hugli”
- Panjabi: “ਹੁਗਲੀ ਨਦੀ”
- Persian: “رودخانه هوگلی”
- Polish: “Hugli”
- Portuguese: “Rio Hooghly”
- Portuguese: “Rio Hugli”
- Romanian: “Râul Hooghly”
- Russian: “Хугли”
- Santali: “ᱦᱩᱜᱽᱞᱤ ᱜᱟᱰᱟ”
- South Azerbaijani: “هوغلی چایی”
- Spanish: “Hooghly”
- Spanish: “Hoogli”
- Spanish: “Hugli”
- Spanish: “Rio Hooghly”
- Spanish: “Río Hooghly”
- Spanish: “Rio Hugli”
- Spanish: “Río Hugli”
- Swedish: “Hooghlyfloden”
- Swedish: “Huglifloden”
- Tamil: “ஊக்லி ஆறு”
- Tamil: “ஹூக்லி ஆறு”
- Telugu: “హుగ్లీ నది”
- Ukrainian: “Канал Хуглі”
- Ukrainian: “Хуглі”
- Ukrainian: “Хуґхлі”
- Urdu: “دریائے ہگلی”
- Urdu: “دریائے ہوگلی”
- Venetian: “Fiume Hugli”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Hooghly”
- Welsh: “Afon Hooghly”
- Western Panjabi: “دریاۓ ہگلی”
- “हुगली नदी”
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