What is "Doab"?
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Doab is a term used in South Asia for the tract of land lying between two converging, or confluent, rivers. It is similar to an interfluve.
Doab means land between two rivers. Do= two. Ab= water. An example of doab can be the ganga -yamuna doab or the land in the ganga Yamuna basin area. Likewise, punjab is the land of five waters, i.e., five rivers.
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The land between two flowing rivers is called Doab.
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- Generally Doab is the Indian subcontinental name for the high ground between two parallel river valleys flowing in the same direction.
- Several rivers flow through northern India and Pakistan, originating from the Himalayas. This is the reason why the plains of this region are divided into several doabs.
- In addition, the term doab is also used to refer to the low, alluvial land between the confluence of two rivers in the wider Indo-Gangetic plain of northern India and Bangladesh.
- R S. McGregor has defined the doab as: "a region lying between and reaching to the confluence of two rivers (esp. that between the Ganges and Jumna).
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