Bug
Bug is a mapped river in the YearMaps hydrographic index. River courses organise settlement, agriculture and frontier-making more durably than any political boundary, and this reach is indexed against the dams, lakes and cities within its catchment.
- Feature Class
- River
- Coordinates
- 51.59°, 23.54°
About Bug
The Bug or Western Bug is a major river in East Europe that flows through Belarus (border), Poland, and Ukraine, with a total length of 774 kilometres (481 mi). A tributary of the Narew, the Bug forms part of the border between Belarus and Poland for 178 kilometres (111 mi) and part of the border between Ukraine and Poland for 185 kilometres (115 mi).
The Bug is connected with the Dnieper by the Dnieper–Bug Canal. Out of its 38,712 square kilometres (14,947 mi2) drainage basin, half is in Poland, just over a quarter in Belarus, and slightly under a quarter in Ukraine.
Encyclopedic summary adapted from Wikipedia: Bug (river) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Bug in Depth
History
According to Zbigniew Gołąb, the Slavic hydronym Bug as *bugъ/*buga derives from the Proto-Indo-European verbal root *bheug- (with cognates in old Proto-Germanic *bheugh- etc. with the meaning 'bend, turn, move away'), with the hypothetical original meaning 'pertaining to a (river) bend', and derivatives in Russian búga 'low banks of a river overgrown with bushes', Polish bugaj 'bushes or woods in a river valley or on a steep river bank', and Latvian bauga 'marshy place by a river'.
Sections adapted from Wikipedia: Bug (river) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Bug: Key Facts
| Length | 772 km |
|---|---|
| Average discharge | 110 m³/s |
| Drainage basin | 73,470 km² |
| Source | Podolian Upland |
| Mouth | Narew |
| Drainage system | Narew Basin |
| Tributaries | Huczwa, Uherka, Krzna, Toczna, Liwiec, Mukhavets River, Nurzec, Brok |
Facts from Wikidata Q156237 (CC0).
Major River Dossiers
Hand-written studies of the great river systems of history.
Connected Reaches
Nearby watercourses in the same drainage network.
Water Bodies in the Catchment
Settlements Along the Reach
Hydraulic Infrastructure Nearby
Surrounding Terrain
Bug: Quick Answers
- Where is Bug?
- Bug is located in Poland and Ukraine and Belarus, at 51.5930° N, 23.5427° E.
- Are there dams on the Bug?
- No dam on the Bug is recorded in the YearMaps dam index, which covers major structures only.