About: 2008 Bihar flood

An Entity of Type: Flood111454591, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

The 2008 Bihar flood was one of the most disastrous floods in the history of Bihar, an impoverished and densely populated state in India. The Koshi embankment near the Indo-Nepal border (at Kusaha VDC, Sunsari district, Nepal) broke on 18 August 2008. The river changed course and flooded areas which had not been flooded in many decades. The flood affected over 2.3 million people in the northern part of Bihar.

thumbnail
Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • The 2008 Bihar flood was one of the most disastrous floods in the history of Bihar, an impoverished and densely populated state in India. The Koshi embankment near the Indo-Nepal border (at Kusaha VDC, Sunsari district, Nepal) broke on 18 August 2008. The river changed course and flooded areas which had not been flooded in many decades. The flood affected over 2.3 million people in the northern part of Bihar. (en)
  • Les inondations au Bihar en 2008 ou la malédiction de Kosi est une inondation de mousson du Kosi affectant plus de 3 millions de personnes dans le nord de l’État du Bihar en Inde. (fr)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 19099515 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageInterLanguageLink
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 19002 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1105450825 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:alt
  • Two electrical transmission towers standing in a featureless expanse of water under a hazy sky (en)
dbp:areasAffected
  • northern Bihar, India, and Nepal (en)
dbp:caption
  • Flooded farmlands in northern Bihar during the 2008 flood (en)
dbp:duration
  • 2008-08-18 (xsd:date)
dbp:name
  • 2008 (xsd:integer)
dbp:totalFatalities
  • 434 (xsd:integer)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • The 2008 Bihar flood was one of the most disastrous floods in the history of Bihar, an impoverished and densely populated state in India. The Koshi embankment near the Indo-Nepal border (at Kusaha VDC, Sunsari district, Nepal) broke on 18 August 2008. The river changed course and flooded areas which had not been flooded in many decades. The flood affected over 2.3 million people in the northern part of Bihar. (en)
  • Les inondations au Bihar en 2008 ou la malédiction de Kosi est une inondation de mousson du Kosi affectant plus de 3 millions de personnes dans le nord de l’État du Bihar en Inde. (fr)
rdfs:label
  • 2008 Bihar flood (en)
  • Inondations au Bihar en 2008 (fr)
rdfs:seeAlso
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is rdfs:seeAlso of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License