Ministry of Water Resources Registry
All 1,415 rivers on the official list
The Ministry of Water Resources published Bangladesh's river list on 14 April 2025 as a 53-page PDF. Its text cannot be searched or copied: the font scrambles the Bangla letters. We rebuilt every row from the PDF's own glyphs and checked the result against the printed pages, so the full list can now be searched, sorted and downloaded.[United News of Bangladesh]
| No. | River | District | Length | From → to | Open map |
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How the list was rebuilt
The PDF was made from Excel with the Nikosh font, and its text layer gives 17 glyphs the wrong letters (the i-kar comes out as ল, the e-kar as দ, and গ, জ, দ and শ as ে). The embedded font's own character map gives the right letter for each, and 16 more joined letters were identified from their words and checked against the printed page. We then put the vowel signs Bangla draws before a consonant back after it, and cut the cells along the table's own lines.
The result was checked three ways: every division is one of the eight, every district is one of the 64 (apart from four spelling variants in the source itself), and 24 rows we had read by eye from the page images match word for word. Two typos are in the original and are kept as printed. Names, districts and lengths are the government's; "open map" is our search, by name and district, in OpenStreetMap, Wikidata and GeoNames.
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