WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Harappan civilization was located in the Indus River valley. Its two large cities, Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, were located in present-day Pakistan’s Punjab and Sindh provinces, respectively. Its extent reached as far south as the Gulf of Khambhat and as far east as the Yamuna (Jumna) River.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Indus Valley civilization (circa 3300–1700 B.C.E.), also known as the Harappan civilization, was one of the earliest urban civilizations, roughly contemporaneous with those of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and China. It was located in what is now Pakistan and northwest India, on the flood plain of the Indus River.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Indus Valley Civilisation existed through its early years of 3300-1300 BCE, and its mature period of 2600-1900 BCE. The area of this Civilisation extended along the Indus River from what today is northeast Afghanistan, into Pakistan and northwest India.

Detailed explanation-4: -Harappa, the Indus Valley sites is presently in Pakistan. Harappa is an archaeological site in Punjab, Pakistan, about 24 km west of Sahiwal.

Detailed explanation-5: -Complete answer: The Indus valley civilization is also called the Harappan civilization because Harappa was the first site to be excavated in the early 1920s. This site was then in the Punjab province under British India and now lies in Pakistan.