NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The River Ganges emerges in the western Himalayas and flows down across northern India into Bangladesh, where it empties into the Bay of Bengal. Nearly 80% of the Ganges river basin is in India, the rest is in Nepal, China and Bangladesh.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Ganga is India’s most important and iconic river. It flows down from its glacial source in the high Himalayas to course through five states in the northern plains before draining into the swirling waters of the Bay of Bengal through the Sunderbans delta, the largest mangrove system in the world.

Detailed explanation-3: -At its source, the river is called as the Bhagirathi. It descends down the valley upto Devprayag where after joining another hill stream Alaknanda, it is called Ganga. The total length of river Ganga (measured along the Bhagirathi and the Hooghly) up to its outfall into Bay of Bengal is 2, 525 km.

Detailed explanation-4: -Compared to other major rivers in Asia, the Ganges is the longest river in India with a length of 2, 510 kilometres and an average flow rate of 14, 720 m3/s.