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The Ganges river follows a 900 km (560 mi) arching course passing through the cities of Bijnor, ... A 1908 map showing the course of the Ganges and its tributaries.
Ganges Delta, 2020 satellite photograph. The Ganges Delta (also known the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, the Sundarbans Delta or the Bengal Delta [1]) is a river delta predominantly covering the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, consisting of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.
The Ganges Basin is a major part of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) basin draining 1,999,000 square kilometres in Tibet, Nepal, India and Bangladesh. To the north, the Himalaya or lower parallel ranges beyond form the Ganges-Brahmaputra divide. On the west the Ganges Basin borders the Indus basin and then the Aravalli ridge.
The Bhagirathi River is mythologically known to be the source stream for the Ganges River. In hydrology, the Alaknanda is the source stream for the Ganges River due to its length and discharge. The Alaknanda River, including its tributaries, is 664.5 km (412.9 miles) and the Bhagirathi River, including its tributaries, is 456.5 km (283.7 miles ...
The Upper Ganges canal is the important and the original Ganges Canal, which starts at the Bhimgoda Barrage near Har ki Pauri at Haridwar, traverses Roorkee, Purquazi, Sardhana (Meerut district), Muradnagar, Dasna, Bulandshahr, Khurja, Harduaganj and continues to Nanau (near Akrabad) in Aligarh district, where it bifurcates into the Kanpur branch and Etawah branch.
The Hooghly River (Anglicized alternatively spelt as Hoogli or Hugli) or popularly called Ganga [1] or Kati-Ganga in the Puranas, is a river that rises close to Giria, which lies north of Baharampur and Palashi in Murshidabad. It is the western distributary of the Ganges. [2] The main course of the Ganges then flows into Bangladesh as the Padma ...
The river flows through 100 cities with populations exceeding 100,000 residents, 97 cities with populations between 50,000 and 100,000 residents, and about 48 towns. [13] A large proportion of the sewage with a high organic load in the Ganges originates from domestic water usage by this population.
Ganga 2000 Earth-fill: Jamui: Irrigation 21 Phulwaria Dam: Tilaiya: 1135 25.66 Ganga 1988 Earth-fill: Nawada Irrigation 22 Sindhwarni Dam: Man 125.76 21.34 Ganga Under Construction Earth-fill: Munger: Irrigation 23 Srikhandi Dam: Srikhandi 205.8 16.65 Ganga 1965 Earth-fill: Jamui: Irrigation 24 Upper Kiul Dam: Kiul 3673 30.48 Ganga 2004 Earth ...