Open in the atlas · point: GeoNames 'Gangnai River'

The Gangnai 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
Gangnai · গাংনাই
Status
Dead or drying
Length
35 km (official river list, 2025)
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
308গাংনাইGaibandha, Bogura
Rajshahi, Rangpur division
শিবগঞ্জ, গোবিন্দগঞ্জকরতোয়া নীলফামারী (গাইবান্ধায় প্রবেশমুখ তেঘরা (নিম্নাঞ্চল), গোবিন্দগঞ্জ, গাইবান্ধা → করতোয়া (নীলফামারী)35 km
  • Bangla Wikipedia's article gives the same district (Gaibandha) and the Water Development Board's river number উত্তর-পশ্চিমাঞ্চলের নদী নং ২৮.
  • Map point: GeoNames 'Gangnai River'.