River Ganga
| The Ganges River (Ganga) | |
 The Ganges in Varanasi
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| Country |  India Bangladesh |
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| States | Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Rajshahi, Dhaka, Khulna, Barisal, Chittagong |
| Tributaries | |
| - left | Ramganga, Gomti, Ghaghara, Gandaki, Koshi, Mahananda |
| - right | Yamuna, Tamsa, Son, Punpun |
| Cities | Rishikesh, Haridwar, Farrukhabad, Kanpur, Jajmau, Allahabad, Mirzapur, Varanasi, Ghazipur, Buxar, Ballia, Patna, Hajipur, Munger, Bhagalpur, Raebareli |
| Source | Gangotri Glacier, Satopanth Glacier, Khatling Glacier, and waters from melted snow from such peaks as Nanda Devi, Trisul, Kedarnath, Nanda Kot, and Kamet. |
| - location | Uttarakhand, India |
| - elevation | 3,892 m (12,769 ft) |
| - coordinates | 30°59′N 78°55′E / 30.983°N 78.917°E |
| Length | 2,525 km (1,569 mi) |
| Basin | 1,080,000 km2 (416,990 sq mi) |
| Discharge | for Farakka Barrage |
| - average | 16,648 m3/s (587,919 cu ft/s) |
| - max | 70,000 m3/s (2,472,027 cu ft/s) |
| - min | 2,000 m3/s (70,629 cu ft/s) |
| Discharge elsewhere (average) | |
| - Bay of Bengal | 38,129 m3/s (1,346,513 cu ft/s) |
 Map of the combined drainage basins of the Ganges (orange), Brahmaputra (violet), and Meghna (green).
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Coordinates: 25°18′16″N 83°00′44″E / 25.304319°N 83.012269°E
The Ganges (/ˈɡændʒiːz/ GAN-jeez), also Ganga (Hindustani: [ˈɡəŋɡaː]), is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through the nations of India and Bangladesh. The 2,525 km (1,569 mi) river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, and flows south and east through the Gangetic Plain of North India into Bangladesh, where it empties into the Bay of Bengal. It is the third largest river in the world by discharge.
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