Western Bug
| Bug | |
| Polish: Bug Ukrainian: Західний Буг, Zakhidnyy Buh Belarusian: Захо́дні Буг, Zakhodni Buh Russian: Западный Буг, Zapadnyy Buh |
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| Countries | Poland, Belarus, Ukraine |
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| 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 / 49.866826000°N 25.09683583°E |
| Mouth | |
| - location | Narew River near Serock, Poland |
| - elevation | 75 m (246 ft) |
| - coordinates | 52°30′29.286″N 21°5′2.688″E / 52.50813500°N 21.08408000°ECoordinates: 52°30′29.286″N 21°5′2.688″E / 52.50813500°N 21.08408000°E |
| Length | 772 km (480 mi) |
| Basin | 39,400 km2 (15,212 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
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The Bug River (Polish: Bug [buk] or Western Bug; Ukrainian: Західний Буг, Zakhidnyy Buh, Belarusian: Захо́дні Буг, Zakhodni Buh; Russian: Западный Буг, Zapadnyy Bug) is a major European river which flows through three countries with a total length of 830 kilometres (520 mi).
A tributary of the Narew River, the Bug forms part of the border between Ukraine and Poland for 185 kilometres (115 mi), and between Belarus and Poland for 178 kilometres (111 mi), and is the fourth longest Polish river.
The name Bug probably came from the old Germanic word baug-s which meant something winding, genual, bent (what was mentioned about river by Gervase of Tilbury who used latin term armilla). Slavs adopted the word Baug from the Goths who previously lived in large numbers near the river.
Traditionally the Bug River was also often considered the ethnographical border between the Orthodox and Catholic Polish peoples. The Bug was the dividing line between German Wehrmacht and Russian Red Army forces following the 1939 invasion of Poland in the Second World War.
Bug River is a left tributary of the Narew river. It flows from the Lviv Oblast in the west of Ukraine northwards into the Volyn Oblast, before passing along the Ukraine-Polish and Polish-Belarusian border and into Poland, where it follows part of the border between the Masovian and Podlaskie Voivodeships. It joins the Narew river at Serock, a few kilometers upstream of the artificial Zegrze Lake.
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