Brahmaputra

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• We'll sail down the Brahmaputra, then Lhasa.

  Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955)

• The only place in the world I know where such a miracle of geography happens is on the slopes of Mount Kailash in Tibet, where the Indus, the Brahmaputra, and the Ganges are born.

  Blog text (31)

• Moonlight in Rome, glaciers in Alaska, the queen in her carriage opening Parliament, and a river ferry on the Brahmaputra in Assam.

  Academic text (2012)

• For example, a 45-centimeter rise in sea level will potentially result in a loss of 11 percent of Bangladesh's territory, largely in the Ganges-Brahmaputra river delta.

  Academic text (2005)

• The country straddles the floodplain's confluence of three great rivers: the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna.

  Academic text (1993)

• One other tremendously enriching art of mask-making finds its home in the old island town of Majuli, sleepily settled within the course of the Brahmaputra.

  Blog text (26)

• Bangladesh vehemently opposed India's old proposal for constructing a link canal through Bangladeshi territory to connect the Brahmaputra with the Ganges.

  Academic text (1998)

• Therefore, rejecting Bangladesh's augmentation proposal as impractical, India countered with its own plan to divert water from the Brahmaputra River to Farakka by a link canal.

  Academic text (1998)

• Heavy rains resulted in the flooding of the Brahmaputra River in northeast India during September.

• We're in the middle reaches of the great Brahmaputra river in the Indian state of Assam.

Synonyms

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Brahmaputra River

vsBrahmaputra

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A large river in South Asia that flows from Tibet through India and Bangladesh into the Bay of Bengal

is the same name written as the full form including the word river

Compounds

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Brahmaputra River

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A large river in South Asia that flows from Tibet through India and Bangladesh into the Bay of Bengal

Surface Forms

Etymology