DAMODAR RIVER


Meaning of DAMODAR RIVER in English

River, northeastern India.

It rises, with its many tributaries, in the Chota Nagpur plateau of Jharkhand and flows east 368 miles (592 km) through West Bengal to join the Hugli River southwest of Kolkata (Calcutta). Its valley includes India's most important coal-and mica-mining fields and is an area of active industrial development.

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