Longest river of India | Ganga

#Ganges #River, Hindi #Ganga, great_river of the #plains of the #subcontinent. Although officially as well as popularly called the #ganga in Hindi and in other #Indian #languages, internationally it is known by its conventional name, the Ganges. From time immemorial it has been the holy river of #Hinduism. For most of its course it is a wide and sluggish stream, flowing through one of the most fertile and densely populated regions in the world. Despite its importance, its length of 1,560 miles (2,510 km) is relatively #short compared with the other great rivers of Asia or of the world.Rising in the Himalayas and emptying into the #Bay_of_Bengal, it drains one-fourth of the territory of India, and its basin supports hundreds of millions of people. The greater part of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, across which it flows, is the heartland of the region known as #Hindustan #generalknowledge #generalstudies #gk #Ganga #पवित्रनदी geography #instavideo #instagram #viralvideos #Indian #instashorts #trending #trendingreels #trends #India