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Not placed on the map. More than one river in Bangladesh carries this name, and the study does not say which one it means. The candidates are listed below. Details

The Shalikha 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
Shalikha · শালিখা
Status
Dead or drying
On the map
Name shared
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

The study names this river, but more than one river in Bangladesh carries the name.

Two rows: #1239 Shalikha, Pabna (12 km, between the Ichamati and the Hurasagar); #1240 Shalikha, Satkhira (23 km, from the Betna to the Kopotakkho). Both connect rivers that are on the RDRC list.

  • Because the study does not say which one it means, this river is listed but not placed on the map.

On the official list

From the government's list of 1,415 rivers (Ministry of Water Resources, 14 April 2025). 2 rows on the official list carry this name in the districts this river crosses; the line on the map may join more than one of them.

RowNameDistrictUpazilaFrom → toLength
1239শালিখা (পাবনা)Pabnaবেড়াইছামতি → হুরাসাগড়12 km
1240শালিখা (সাতক্ষীরা)Satkhiraতালাবেতনা → কপোতাক্ষ23 km

See it in the full official list