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Beas River

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Beas River, anglicized from Vyas River in India, is a river in northwestern India, flowing through the states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab, and is the smallest of the five major rivers of the Punjab region. Rising in the Himalayas in central Himachal Pradesh, the river flows for approximately 470 kilometres (290 mi) into the Sutlej River in Punjab. Its total length is 470 kilometres (290 mi) and its drainage basin is 20,303 square kilometres (7, 839 sq mi) large. As of 2017, the river is home to a tiny isolated population of the Indus dolphin.

Flows through: India.

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

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