Ganges
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The Ganges ( GAN-jeez), or Ganga (Hindustani: [ˈɡəŋɡaː]), is a trans-boundary river of the Indian subcontinent 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. After entering West Bengal, it divides into two rivers: the Hooghly and the Padma River. The Hooghly, or Adi Ganga, flows through several districts of West Bengal and into the Bay of Bengal near Sagar Island. The other, the Padma, also flows into and through Bangladesh, and joins the Meghna river which ultimately empties into the Bay of Bengal.
The Ganges is one of the most sacred rivers to Hindus. It is also a lifeline to millions of Indians who live along its course and depend on it for their daily needs. It is worshipped in Hinduism and personified as the goddess Gaṅgā. It has also been important historically, with many former provincial or imperial capitals (such as Kannauj, Kampilya, Kara, Prayag or Allahabad, Kashi, Pataliputra or Patna, Hajipur, Munger, Bhagalpur, Baranagar, Murshidabad, Baharampur, Nabadwip, Saptagram and Kolkata) located on its banks.
The Ganges is highly polluted. Pollution threatens not only humans, but also more than 140 fish species, 90 amphibian species and the endangered Ganges river dolphin. The Ganges is a major source of global ocean plastic pollution. The levels of fecal coliform bacteria from human waste in the waters of the river near Varanasi are more than 100 times the Indian government's official limit. The Ganga Action Plan, an environmental initiative to clean up the river, has been a major failure thus far, due to rampant corruption, lack of will on behalf of the government and its bureaucracy, lack of technical expertise, poor environmental planning, and lack of support from religious authorities.
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Ganges
River in India
- Desc: The Ganges, or Ganga, is a trans-boundary river of the Indian subcontinent which flows through the nations of India and Bangladesh.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganges
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- Type: Thing, BodyOfWater, TouristAttraction, Place, Cemetery, RiverBodyOfWater
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River delta
- Desc: The Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta is a river delta in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, consisting of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganges_Delta
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- Type: Place, TouristAttraction, Thing, BodyOfWater
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Animal
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Region
- Desc: The Indo-Gangetic Plain, also known as the Indus-Ganga Plain and the North Indian River Plain, is a 630-million-acre fertile plain encompassing Northern regions of the Indian subcontinent, including most of northern and eastern India, the eastern parts of Pakistan, virtually all of Bangladesh and southern plains of Nepal.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Gangetic_Plain
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Ganges
Television series
- Desc: Ganges is a nature documentary series for television on the natural history of the River Ganges in India and Bangladesh. As well as the variety of animals and habitats that are to be found along the river’s 2,510 km reach, the programmes also feature the cultures, traditions and religions of the very large human population that it supports.
- URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007wjwz
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River in Asia
- Desc: The Padma is a major river in Bangladesh and India. It is the main distributary of the Ganges, flowing generally southeast for 120 kilometres to its confluence with the Meghna River near the Bay of Bengal.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padma_River
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Author
- Desc: Kapila is a given name of different individuals in ancient and medieval Indian texts, of which the most well-known is the founder of the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapila
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Historical landmark in Mahabalipuram, India
Ganges
Ship
- Desc: Ganges was an 1854 clipper ship built by Hugh R. McKay in East Boston. Although she was famed for a race with Flying Cloud and Bald Eagle, the race actually never took place.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganges_(clipper)
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River in India
- Desc: The Hooghly River or the Bhāgirathi-Hooghly, traditionally called 'Ganga', and also called Kati-Ganga, is an approximately 260-kilometre-long distributary of the Ganges River in West Bengal, India.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooghly_River
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Hotel
- Desc: Raichak on Ganges is a collection of hotel, resort, spa and theme based country homes beside the river Ganges, located at Raichak, 51 km from Kolkata, in the state of West Bengal in eastern India.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raichak_on_Ganges
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Ganges
Ship
- Desc: Ganges was the second Nourse Line ship to be named Ganges. The first Ganges was built in 1861 and wrecked in 1881. Ganges was a 1529-ton iron barque, built by Osbourne, Graham & Company of Sunderland and launched on 25 March 1882.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganges_(1882)
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Ganges
Ship
- Desc: Ganges was the first of three Nourse Line ships named for the Ganges river in northern India.
The first Nourse Line ship was the 839-ton sailing ship Ganges built by William Pile of Sunderland and launched on 9 July 1861.
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River in India
- Desc: The Alaknanda is a Himalayan river in the Indian state of Uttarakhand and one of the two headstreams of the Ganga, the major river of Northern India and the holy river of Hinduism.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaknanda_River
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Ganges
Vessel
- Desc: Ganges was a whaleship from Nantucket, Massachusetts, launched in 1809 in Massachusetts, that operated in the Pacific Ocean from 1815 to 1853. It was probably the vessel reported to have found Gardner Island in the Phoenix group.
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River in Bangladesh
- Desc: The Buriganga River flows past the southwest outskirts of Dhaka city, the capital of Bangladesh. Its average depth is 7.6 metres and its maximum depth is 18 metres.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buriganga_River
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Atoll
- Desc: Ganges Bank is a wholly submerged atoll structure in the Southwest of the Chagos Archipelago. It is about 7 by 5 km in size, yielding an area of about 30 km². The closest land is the Egmont Atoll located 87 km to the NNE.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganges_Bank
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Song by Maneesh de Moor
Ganges
Merchantman
- Desc: Ganges was a 700-ton merchantman launched in India in 1792. She made two trips under contract to the East India Company, and one in 1797 transporting convicts from England to New South Wales.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganges_(1792_ship)
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Song by Vico Torriani
Ganges
Boat
- Desc: Ganges was a brig launched at Bombay Dockyard for the Bengal Pilot Service, of the British East India Company. She is sometimes referred to as a schooner, but that is more a reference to her role than her sailing rig.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganges_(1794_ship)
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2012 film
Ship
- Desc: SS Ganges was the third Nourse Line ship to be named Ganges. The first Ganges was built in 1861 and wrecked in 1881. The second Ganges was built in 1885 and sold to Norway in 1904.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Ganges_(1906)
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Ganges
Song by Luis Alberto Spinetta
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Song by Amancio D'Silva
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Song by Cemetery of Scream
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Song by Alberto Marsicano
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Song by Klaus Hoffmann-Hoock
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Song by Cemetery of Scream
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Song by Bardo Pond
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Ganges
Song by Alberto Marsicano
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Song by Rez Abbasi
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