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Betwa River

The 659th longest river in the world

590 km

The Betwa (Sanskrit) is a river in central and northern India, and a tributary of the Yamuna. It rises in the Vindhya Range (Raisen) just north of Hoshangabad (Narmadapuram) in Madhya Pradesh and flows northeast through Madhya Pradesh before entering Uttar Pradesh after flowing through Orchha. Nearly half of its course, which is not navigable, runs over the Malwa Plateau. The confluence of the Yamuna and the Betwa rivers is in Hamirpur district in Uttar Pradesh, where Yamuna flows northward and Betwa approaches from south of Hamirpur. The Indian Navy named one of its frigates INS Betwa in honour of the river.

Flows through: India.

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

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