{"id":352398,"date":"2025-12-20T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=352398"},"modified":"2025-12-20T14:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T09:00:08","slug":"kosi-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kosi-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Kosi River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The Bheja\u2013Bakaur Kosi Bridge project is nearing completion to improve connectivity in flood-affected regions of Madhubani and Supaul in Bihar.<\/p>\n<h2>About Kosi River<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_352402\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-352402\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-352402 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Source-ResearchGate.jpg?resize=300%2C243&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Kosi River\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Source-ResearchGate.jpg?resize=300%2C243&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Source-ResearchGate.jpg?resize=1024%2C831&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Source-ResearchGate.jpg?resize=768%2C623&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Source-ResearchGate.jpg?w=1067&amp;ssl=1 1067w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-352402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; ResearchGate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Origins<\/strong>: The Kosi River is <strong>formed by the confluence of the Sun Kosi, Arun Kosi, and Tamur Kosi,<\/strong> originating in the <strong>Himalayan regions of Nepal and Tibet, <\/strong><strong>and <\/strong>enters India in<strong> Bihar.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Geographical boundaries Kosi river basin: <\/strong>The river basin is surrounded by ridges which <strong>separate the Kosi<\/strong> from the <strong>Yarlung Tsangpo River<\/strong> in the north, the <strong>Gandaki River<\/strong>\u00a0in the west and the <strong>Mahananda River<\/strong> in the east.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Length:<\/strong> The Kosi River is about <strong>724 km <\/strong>long<strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tributaries of Kosi: <\/strong>It is <strong>called <em>Saptakoshi<\/em> <\/strong>because it has seven main tributaries, namely <strong>Sun Kosi, Tama Kosi, Dudh Koshi, Indravati, Arun Kosi, Likhu Khola, and Tamur.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Joins into<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>It <strong>joins the Ganges River near Kursela in the Katihar<\/strong> district of <strong>Bihar<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>third-largest tributary of the Ganges by water discharge<\/strong> after the <strong>Ghaghara<\/strong> and the <strong>Yamuna.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is known as the \u201c<strong>Sorrow of Bihar<\/strong>\u201d due to <strong>frequent floods and rapid westward shifting <\/strong>of its river channel.<\/li>\n<li>Its <strong>vast alluvial fan in north-east Bihar is one of the largest in the world<\/strong> and supports <strong>fertile agriculture<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cultural Significance<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>The Kosi River,<strong> known as Kausiki in the Mahabharata, <\/strong>is the lifeline of the <strong>Mithila region.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Bheja\u2013Bakaur Kosi Bridge project is nearing completion to improve connectivity in flood-affected regions of Madhubani and Supaul in Bihar. About Kosi River Origins: The Kosi River is formed by the confluence of the Sun Kosi, Arun Kosi, and Tamur Kosi, originating in the Himalayan regions of Nepal and Tibet, and enters India in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kosi-river\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kosi River<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-352398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}