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Open in the atlas · point: GeoNames 'Bhola'

The Bhola is one of the rivers the River and Delta Research Centre names as dead or drying up (2025): heavily silted, and fully or partly dry in the lean season.

Name
Bhola · ভোলা
Status
Dead or drying
On the map
Located (point)
What the record says (2)

  • At least 79 of the 1,156 government-listed rivers have dried up or are drying up (RDRC study 'Dried Up Rivers of Bangladesh', 2025).

    Source: The Daily Star, 20 Mar 2025

  • Most of these rivers are heavily silted and dry up in the lean season, mainly because water is diverted upstream; parts of some have vanished under encroachment.

    Source: The Daily Star, 20 Mar 2025

Where this river is

From the government's official list of 1,415 rivers (Ministry of Water Resources, 14 April 2025), read off the published PDF.

RowNameDistrictUpazilaFrom → toLength
1009ভোলা (বাগেরহাট)Bagerhat
Khulna division		শরণখোলা, মোংলা, মোড়েলগঞ্জখড়মা → বলেশ্বর63 km
1010ভোলা (মোংলা)Bagerhat
Khulna division		মোংলামান্দারতলা-কুমারখালী → পশুর14 km
1011ভোলা (রামপাল)Bagerhat
Khulna division		বটিয়াঘাটা, ফকিরহাট, বাগেরহাট সদর, রামপালপুরাতন পশুর → দাউদখালী19 km
  • Bangla Wikipedia's article gives the same district (Bagerhat) and the Water Development Board's river number দক্ষিণ-পশ্চিমাঞ্চলের নদী নং ৭১.
  • Map point: GeoNames 'Bhola'. Probably the Bhola of Rampal (row 1011); the other two Bholas are further south in Bagerhat.
  • Three rivers called ভোলা, all in Bagerhat; the study does not say which. Prothom Alo (2020) names the Bhola of Bagerhat among rivers that have disappeared.