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Also known as Pivdennyi Buh, Boh River, Buh Pivdennyi, Hipanis

river in Ukraine

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The Southern Bug is a river in Ukraine that flows through the eastern part of the country. It matters as an important waterway for the region's geography and local communities.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
river
Country
Ukraine
Located in
Mykolaiv Oblast
Continent
Europe
Image
Ship M I Pirogov Vinnitsa 2006 G2.jpg
Length
806
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Commons category
Southern Bug
mouth of the watercourse
Black Sea
category for the water basin
Category:Southern Bug Basin
origin of the watercourse
Podolian Upland
topic's main category
Category:Southern Bug
watershed area
63700
discharge
160
native label
Південний Буг
different from
Western Bug
on focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Ukraine
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Encyclopedic overview

The river is named as Bog Fl[uss] on this 1791 Austrian map (in German). The river is named as Bog on this 1788 French map showing the Dnieper–Bug estuary (Liman).

The Southern Bug, also called Southern Buh (Ukrainian: Південний Буг, romanized: Pivdennyi Buh; Russian: Южный Буг, romanized: Yuzhny Bug; Crimean Tatar: Aq Suv; Romanian: Bugul de Sud or just Bug), and sometimes Boh River (Ukrainian: Бог; Polish: Boh), is a navigable river located in Ukraine. It is the second-longest river flowing exclusively in Ukraine.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Southern Bug” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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