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    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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    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 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    MS-13 (redirect from MS Gang)
    criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles, California, in the 1980s. Originally, the gang was set up to protect Salvadoran immigrants from other gangs in...
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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 (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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    "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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    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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    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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  • 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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