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Adi Ganga

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

Adi Ganga (also known as the Gobindapur Creek and Tolly's Canal) is a stream that was part of the Hooghly River in the Kolkata area of India. It was the main flow of the Hooghly River from the 15th to 17th centuries, but it eventually dried up due to natural causes.

Flows through: India.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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