Interesting facts about River Ganga
EXPLORE
Interesting facts about River Ganges
Ganga
, flows
2,525 kilometers
from the Himalaya mountains to the Bay of Bengal in northern India and Bangladesh.
The Ganges River begins in the Himalayas’ Gangotri Glacier
. The glacier sits at an elevation of
3,892 meters
The
major rivers
Ramganga, Gomti, Ghaghara, Gandaki, Burhi Gandak, Koshi, Mahananda, Tamsa, Yamuna, Son, and Punpun
flow into the Ganges.
The Ganges was ranked as the
fifth most polluted river of the world in 2007
.
On the Ganges banks are India’s greatest pilgrimage sites
like Rishikesh, Haridwar, Varanasi, Allahabad and Kolkata
Click here to know more..