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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 combined Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna basin (abbreviated GBM or GMB) drainage basin is spread across Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, and China. [ 45 ] The Ganges basin ranges from the Himalaya and the Transhimalaya in the north, to the northern slopes of the Vindhya range in the south, from the eastern slopes of the Aravalli in the west to ...
Bottom left: Map of the Yarlung Tsangpo River watershed which drains the north slope of the Himalayas. This is a list of dams on the Brahmaputra River and hydro–infrastructure in the Brahmaputra River Basin which is a key constituent of the Ganges -Brahmaputra basin of Himalayan rivers.
Map of India showing the major rivers. With a land area of 3,287,263 km 2 (1,269,219 sq mi) ... The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna basin is the largest, ...
It is believed that upwards of 300 million people are supported by the Ganges Delta; approximately 400 million people live in the Ganges River Basin, making it the most populous river basin in the world. Most of the Ganges Delta has a population density greater than 200/km 2 (520 people per square mile), [citation needed] making it one of the ...
The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghana system has the largest catchment area of about 1,600,000 km 2 (620,000 sq mi). [65] The Ganges Basin alone has a catchment of about 1,100,000 km 2 (420,000 sq mi). [28] The Ganges originates from the Gangotri Glacier in Uttarakhand. [64] It flows southeast, draining into the Bay of Bengal. [28]
The Ganges Delta is “a really exciting place to work because it has these big, dynamic river channels,” said Dr. Elizabeth Chamberlain, lead author of a new study published June 17 in the ...
Map of the Ganges, Ganges Basin tributaries & distributaries, and Ganges Delta. Subcategories. ... Ganges basin (1 C, 12 P) T. Tributaries of the Ganges (4 C, 20 P)