Bug River

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Coordinates: 52°30′29.286″N 21°5′2.688″E / 52.508135°N 21.08408°E / 52.508135; 21.08408
Bug
Polish: Bug
Ukrainian: Західний Буг, Zakhidnyy Buh
Belarusian: Захо́дні Буг, Zakhodni Buh
River
Bug River in the vicinity of Wyszków, Poland
Countries Poland, Belarus, Ukraine
Voivodeship
Voblast
Oblast		 Podlaskie, Mazovian, Lublin,
Brest,
Lviv
Source
 - location near Verkhobuzh, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine
 - elevation 310 m (1,017 ft)
 - coordinates 49°52′0.5736″N 25°5′48.609″E / 49.866826°N 25.09683583°E / 49.866826; 25.09683583
Mouth
 - location Narew River near Serock, Poland
 - elevation 75 m (246 ft)
 - coordinates 52°30′29.286″N 21°5′2.688″E / 52.508135°N 21.08408°E / 52.508135; 21.08408
Length 772 km (480 mi)
Basin 39,420 km2 (15,220 sq mi)
Discharge for Serock
 - average 1 m3/s (35 cu ft/s)
Discharge elsewhere (average)
 - Wyszkow 158 m3/s (5,580 cu ft/s)
Bug River through Ukraine, Belarus and Poland
This article is about the Bug River, a tributary of the Vistula River. For the Southern Bug River, located in Ukraine, see Southern Bug. For the insect, see Western conifer seed bug .

The Bug River (Polish: Bug [buk] ( listen); Ukrainian: Західний Буг, Zakhidnyy Buh or Western Bug; Belarusian: Захо́дні Буг, Zakhodni Buh; Russian: Западный Буг, Zapadnyy Bug) is a left tributary of the Narew river flows from central Ukraine to the west, passing along the Ukraine-Polish and Polish-Belarusian border and into Poland, where it empties into the Narew river near Serock. The part between the lake and the Vistula River is sometimes referred to as Bugo-Narew. The Vistula River drains into the Baltic Sea.

The Bug is 830 km long[1] (587 km in Poland)[citation needed] and is the 4th longest Polish river. The basin area is 39,420 km² (19,284 km² in Poland). It is connected with the Dnieper river by the Dnieper-Bug Canal.

Traditionally the Bug was also often considered the ethnographical border between Orthodox and Catholic peoples. The Bug was the dividing line between German and Russian forces following the invasion of Poland in the Second World War.

[edit] Tributaries

Allegory of the Western Bug River, a statue on the terrace of the Palace on the Island in Łazienki Królewskie, Warsaw

Poltva, Sołokija, Bukowa, Huczwa, Uherka, Włodawka, Krzna, Liwiec, Ług, Mukhavets, Leśna, Nurzec, Brok, Warenzhanka

[edit] Photo gallery

  • Bug River in the vicinity of Włodawa

  • Bug River in the vicinity of Włodawy

  • Bug River in the vicinity of Wola Uhruska

  • Bug River in the vicinity of Nur

  • Bug River in the vicinity of Wyszków

  • Bug River in the vicinity of Drohiczyn

  • Bug River near Drohiczyn, A view from the Castle Mountains

  • Bug River landscape near Nadbużański

  • Bug River in the vicinity of Małkinia Górna

  • Bug River in the vicinity of Serpelice

  • Bug River in the vicinity of Drohiczyn

[edit] See also

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[edit] External links

Rivers of Poland by Watershed
Vistula
Narew ( Bug • Wkra • Biebrza )
San ( Wisłok )
Dunajec ( Poprad )
Pilica • Wieprz • Brda • Drwęca • Wda • Bzura • Wisłoka • Nida
Odra
Vistula Lagoon
Baltic Sea
Rega • Parsęta • Wieprza • Słupia • Łeba • Reda

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Bug River". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/83712/Bug-River. Retrieved 10 April 2011. 
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