the Meghna, forming the major estuary of the Ganges Delta, and emptying into the Bay of Bengal. The Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna system is the second-largest...
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The Ganges Delta (also known the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, the Sundarbans Delta or the Bengal Delta) is a river delta predominantly covering the Bengal...
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The Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangetica) is a species of freshwater dolphin classified in the family Platanistidae. It lives in the Ganges and...
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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...
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significant pumping costs to dilute the pollution in the Ganges. The main causes of water pollution in the Ganges River are the disposal of human sewage and animal...
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The Ganges shark (Glyphis gangeticus) is a critically endangered species of requiem shark found in the Ganges River (Padma River) and the Brahmaputra...
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Ganges after the river Ganges in India. HMS Ganges (1782) was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1782 and broken up in 1816. HMS Ganges (1821)...
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Ganges Bank Ganges Bank is a wholly submerged atoll structure in the Southwest of the Chagos Archipelago. It is about 7 by 5 km in size, yielding an area...
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South Asian river dolphin (redirect from Ganges and Indus river dolphin)
the Ganges and Indus River populations being subspecies (P. g. gangetica and P. g. minor, respectively). Heinrich Julius Lebeck named the Ganges river...
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Indo-Gangetic Plain (redirect from Ganges Plain)
region–Indus and Ganges. The region was formed as a result of continuous deposition of silt by the major river systems of Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra...
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A gang is a group or society of associates, friends, or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or...
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The Ganges Canal or Ganga Canal is a canal system that irrigates the Doab region between the Ganges River and the Yamuna River in India. The canal is...
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and is in the Coprates quadrangle. It is named after the River Ganges in South Asia. Ganges Chasma is thought to have formed through a series of catastrophic...
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Look up Ganges or Gangetic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ganges is a river in India. Ganges may also refer to: Ganges, Hérault, a commune in the...
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East Indies trade and named for the Ganges, India's principal river, which flows into the Bay of Bengal. Ganges regularly sailed to Calcutta and Canton...
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the 1800s, Ganges as well as much of the North side of Saltspring Island was predominantly African-American. Ganges Harbour, from which Ganges takes its...
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Radhika Khanna (redirect from Yoga: From the Ganges to Wall Street)
designer, entrepreneur and author. Khanna is the author of Yoga: From the Ganges to Wall Street. Khanna was born and raised in Amritsar, India. She was the...
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Ganges (French pronunciation: [ɡɑ̃ʒ]; Languedocien: Gange) is a commune in the Hérault department in Occitanie in southern France. Ganges is situated...
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The gang-gang cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbriatum) is a parrot found in the cooler and wetter forests and woodlands of Australia, particularly alpine bushland...
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Ganges Township is a civil township of Allegan County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,574 at the 2020 census. There are no incorporated...
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Bangladesh. India uses it to control the flow of the Ganges River. The dam was built to divert Ganges River water into the Hooghly River during the dry season...
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Ganges River, from Ravidas Ghat at the southern end to Rajghat, are lit with more than a million earthen lamps (diyas) in honour of Ganga, the Ganges...
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of gangs as of 2011, and more than 33,000 gangs were active in the country. These include national street gangs, local street gangs, prison gangs, outlaw...
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Ganges to earth from the heavens led by Bhagiratha. The waters of the Ganges are believed to possess supernatural powers. The descent of the Ganges and...
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Ganga (goddess) (redirect from Ganges in Hinduism)
Ganga (Sanskrit: गङ्गा, IAST: Gaṅgā) is the personification of the river Ganges, who is worshipped by Hindus as the goddess of purification and forgiveness...
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Ganges was the first of three Nourse Line ships named for the Ganges river in northern India. The first Nourse Line ship was the 839-ton sailing ship Ganges...
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Ganges was the second Nourse Line ship to be named Ganges. The first Ganges was built in 1861 and wrecked in 1881. Ganges was a 1,529-ton iron barque...
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Āryāvarta (section Ganges-Yamuna doab)
"situates it essentially in the Ganges plan, between the Thar desert in the west and the confluence of the rivers Ganges (Ganga) and Jumna (Yamuna) in the...
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Yamuna (category Tributaries of the Ganges)
square kilometres (141,399 sq mi), 40.2% of the entire Ganges Basin. It merges with the Ganges at Triveni Sangam, Prayagraj, which is a site of the Kumbh...
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