Question: Joniškėlis is located 17 km west of a city near the bank of which river ?

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Mih Lachache: Mih Lachache (also written Mouiat el Achech) is a village in the commune of Mih Ouensa, in Mih Ouensa District, El Oued Province, Algeria.  The village is located 17 km west of Mih Ouensa and 35 km southwest of the provincial capital El Oued.

Joniškėlis: Joniškėlis ( ) is a city in the Pasvalys district municipality, Lithuania.  It is located 17 km west of Pasvalys.

Paraiya: Paraiya is a block in Gaya district of Bihar state, India.  The Paraiya Block headquarters is Paraiya Khurd town, part of the Magadh division.  It is located 17 km west of the district headquarters in Gaya, and 109 km north of the state capital Patna.

Ni'lin: Ni'lin (Arabic: نعلين‎ ‎ ) is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the central West Bank, located 17 km west of Ramallah.  Ni'lin is about 3 km east of the 1949 Armistice Line (Green Line) bordered by Deir Qaddis, the Israeli settlements of Nili and Na'ale to the northeast, the village of al-Midya and Modi'in Illit (Kiryat Sefer) settlement bloc are to the south, Budrus (4 km) and Qibya (5 km) villages are located to the northwest.  The town's total land area consists of approximately 15,000 dunams of which 660 is urban.  Under the Oslo II 93.3% of town lands has been classed as 'Area C'.

Victory Bank: Victory Bank is a wholly submerged atoll structure in the Northern Chagos Archipelago at .  It is located 17 km NNW of Nelson Island, the only island on the Northern rim of the Great Chagos Bank.  Île Boddam, of the Salomon Islands lies 17 km to the North.

Voltri: Voltri is a quartiere of the Italian city of Genoa, located 17 km west of the city centre.

Thirumullaivoyal railway station: Thirumullaivoyal railway station is one of the railway station of the Chennai Central–Arakkonam section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network.  It serves the neighbourhoods of moondru nagar, Jayalakshmi Nagar, Senthil Nagar and Thirumullaivoyal and a suburb of Chennai located 17 km west of the city centre.  It is situated at Senthil Nagar near Ambattur and has an elevation of 21.73 m above sea level.

Polling in Tirol: Polling in Tirol is a municipality in the district of Innsbruck-Land in the Austrian state of Tyrol located 17 km west of Innsbruck and 7 km before Telfs.  The location was mentioned as “Pollinga” in 763 for the first time.

Pasvalys: Pasvalys ( ; Yiddish: פּאָסװאָל‎ "Posvol") is a city in Panevėžys County, Lithuania, located near the bank of the Svalia River.  Its sister city is Götene in Sweden.

Alowal, Nawanshahr: Alowal or Allowal (Punjabi: ਅਲੋਵਾਲ ) is a village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of Punjab State, India.  It is located 17 km away from postal head office Samundra, 15 km from Balachaur, 17 km from district headquarter Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and 85.6 km from state capital Chandigarh.  The village is administered by Sarpanch an elected representative of the village.

Supporting paragraphs: Joniškėlis Pasvalys
Answer: the Svalia River