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5 unusual facts about Padma River


Dohar Upazila

One of the largest rivers of Bangladesh, the Padma, is situated in the southern and south-western part of Dohar.

Nuclear energy in Bangladesh

The nuclear power plant will be built at Ruppur, on the banks of the Padma River, in the Ishwardi subdistrict of Pabna, in the northwest of the country.

Padma River

The Jalangi River is thrown off at the point where the mighty Padma touches the district at its most northernly corner, and flows along the northern border in a direction slightly south-east, until it leaves the district some miles to the east of Kushtia.

The place last named were shown in a map of the Mymensingh district dated 1861, as a subdistrict (Thana) headquarters, about 6 miles south-east of Bera police station.

The places mentioned by Rennell proceeding from west to east are Rampur Boali, the headquarters of Rajshahi district, Puthia and Natore in the same district and Jaffarganj in the district of Dhaka.



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