Pusur River

Pusur River

also spelled  Pussur  or  Pasur 

      distributary of the Padma River (Ganges [Ganga] River (Ganges River)), southwestern Bangladesh. It leaves the Madhumati River (there called the Baleswar) northeast of Khulna city and flows some 110 miles (177 km) southward past the port at Mongla and through the swampy Sundarbans region to the Bay of Bengal (Bengal, Bay of). In its upper course it is called the Atharabanki.

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