Question

write a note of the river plains of north india

Answer 1

The Indo-Gangetic Plain, also known as the Indus-Ganga Plain and the North Indian River Plain, is a 630-million-acre (2.5-million km2) fertile plainencompassing Northern regions of the Indian subcontinent, including most of northern and eastern India, the eastern parts of Pakistan, virtually all ofBangladesh and southern plains of Nepal.[1] The region is named after the Indusand the Ganges rivers and encompasses a number of large urban areas. The plain is bound on the north by the Himalayas, which feed its numerous rivers and are the source of the fertile alluvium deposited across the region by the two river systems. The southern edge of the plain is marked by the Chota Nagpur Plateau. On the west rises the Iranian Plateau.and in the western part was formed by the indus and its tributaries,the jhelum,thechenab,the ravi,the beas in located in paskistan leaving minor portion of punjab and hariyana plains in india

Answer 2

The indus ganga plains also known as the great plains are large floodplains of the indus and the ganga brahmaputra river systems. They run parallel to the himalaya mountains from jammu and kashmir and odisha in the west to assam in the east and draining most of northern and eastern india.