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Doab (English: / ˈ d oʊ ɑː b /) is a term used in South Asia [1] for the tract [2] [1] of land lying between two confluent rivers. It is similar to an interfluve. [3] In the Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, R. S. McGregor refers to its Persian origin in defining it as do-āb (دوآب, literally "two [bodies of] water") "a region lying between and reaching to the confluence of two rivers."
In any doab, khadar land (green) lies next to a river, while bangur land (olive) has greater elevation and lies further from the river. Khādir or Khadar and Bangar, Bāngur or Bhangar (Hindi language: खादर और बांगर, Urdu languageکهادر اور بانگر) are terms used in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and Sindhi in the Indo-Gangetic plains of North India and Pakistan to ...
The term "Doaba" or "Doab" is derived from Persian دو آب (do āb, literally "two [bodies of] water"), and signifies a region lying between and reaching to the confluence of two rivers. [3] The river Sutlej separates Doaba from the Malwa region of India to its south and the river Beas separates Doaba from the Majha region, split between ...
The Upper Doab region The Upper Doab region, and Western Uttar Pradesh as a whole were among the only places in India to benefit a lot from the Green Revolution in the 1960s [5] The main crop grown in the Upper Doab is sugarcane [6] the sale mechanisms of crops are different from the rest of India as opposed to the mandi system, the produce is brought directly by mills [7]
Dowab, also spelled Doab, [2] is one of the districts of Nuristan Province in Afghanistan. [3] It has a population of about 81,000 residents. They are mostly farmers , herders , traders, and shopkeepers.
Kirana Bar or Gondal Bar (also spelt Karana; Punjabi: کرانہ بار) is the section of the Bar region in western Punjab Punjab in Pakistan located between the rivers Jhelum and Chenab. [1] It comprises the central and southern parts of Jech Doab, and corresponds to the present-day Mandi Bahauddin, Sargodha and Gujrat districts in Pakistani ...
Do Ab or Dow Ab or Du Ab or Doab or Dowab or Duab (Persian: دواب), meaning "two rivers", may refer to: Doab, a geographical feature in India; Do Ab, Bamiyan, a village in Bamiyan Province, Afghanistan; Do Ab (Iran), a rural area near Tehran, Iran; Do Ab, Gilan, a village in Gilan Province, Iran; Do Ab Mardakh, a village in Gilan Province, Iran
Map showing the extent of Mesopotamia. The geography of Mesopotamia, encompassing its ethnology and history, centered on the two great rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates.While the southern is flat and marshy, the near approach of the two rivers to one another, at a spot where the undulating plateau of the north sinks suddenly into the Babylonian alluvium, tends to separate them still more ...