Question

The Ganges is approximately _______ km long.
1. 5000
2. 2500
3. 1000
4. 2000

Answer 1

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.