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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."
Doaba, also known as Bist Doab or the Jalandhar Doab, [1] is the region of Punjab, India that lies between the Beas River and the Sutlej River. [2] People of this region are given the demonym "Doabia".
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.
Sarasvati-Drishadvati doab / Ghaggar-Drishadvati doab: This palaeo doab covered the area lying between Ghaggar river (palaeochannel of Sarasvati) and the palaeochannel Drishadvati river which confluenced in Hanumangarh district immediately northwest of Haryana. This doab area included entire Northern Haryana on Haryana-Punjab, i.e. districts of ...
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]
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 Majha region is called the "Sword Arm of the Country", due to it contributing disproportionately to the Officer as well as Orderly ranks of the Armies of both India and Pakistan. [5] The Sikh Empire was founded in the Majha region, and so the region is also sometimes referred to as "the cradle of the brave Sikhs".
Some major cities of this doab are Rawalpindi, Taxila, Attock, Chakwal, Jhelum, Pind Dadan Khan, Talagang, Mianwali, Bhakkar, Layyah, Muzaffargarh, Khushab and Quaidabad. Of the Punjab doabs, the Sindh Sagar Doab is the largest in land area, but the poorest for agriculture, [ 2 ] due to the presence of the Salt Range and Thal Desert .