Answer» Correct Answer - Option 2 : 2500
The correct answer is 2500. - Ganges River is the great river of the plains of the northern Indian subcontinent.
- From time immemorial it has been the holy river of Hinduism.
- 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.
- The greater part of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, across which it flows.
- The general direction of the river’s flow is from northwest to southeast. At its delta, the flow is generally southward.
- The Ganges rises in the southern Great Himalayas on the Indian side of the border with the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
- It is five headstreams the Bhagirathi, the Alaknanda, the Mandakini, the Dhauliganga, and the Pindar, all rise in the mountainous region of northern Uttarakhand state.
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