Yamuna
The Yamuna is the second-largest tributary river of the Ganges by discharge and the longest tributary in India. Originating from the Yamunotri Glacier at a height of about 4,500 m on the southwestern slopes of Bandarpunch peaks of the Lower Himalaya in Uttarakhand, it travels 1,376 kilometres and has a drainage system of 366,223 square kilometres, 40.2% of the entire Ganges Basin.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in India
- Also known as: “Giri”, “Jamna”, “Jumna”, “Jumna river”, “Jumna River”, and “Yamuna River”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Allahabad Fort and Allahabad Pillar.
Allahabad Fort
Monument
Photo: Vyomtripathi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Allahabad Fort was built by the Mughal emperor Akbar at Allahabad in 1583. The fort stands on the banks of the Yamuna, near its confluence with the Ganges.
Allahabad Pillar
Monument
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Allahabad Pillar is a stambha, containing one of the pillar edicts of Ashoka, erected by Ashoka, emperor of the Maurya dynasty, who reigned in the 3rd century BCE.
New Yamuna Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Dhirendram, Public domain.
The New Yamuna Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge located in Prayagraj. The bridge was constructed by the end of 2004 with the aim of minimizing the traffic over the Old Naini Bridge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jhusi and Naini.
Jhusi
Town
Jhusi or Jhunsi is a town in Prayagraj district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It was formerly called Pratishthan Pur or Puri. The place is also noted for being one of the Neolithic sites that provides some of the earliest evidence of farming in South Asia. Jhusi is situated 3 km east of Yamuna.
Naini
Town
Photo: Abhijeet Vardhan, CC BY 2.0.
Naini is an industrial township of Prayagraj in Prayagraj district, Uttar Pradesh, India. By the 1950s Naini was established as the chief industrial area of the city. Naini is situated 4 km southwest of Yamuna.
Chowk
Suburb
Chowk is a neighborhood in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is the historic city centre of Old Prayagraj. It is one of the oldest & largest business markets of India & lies in old Prayagraj. Chowk is situated 5 km west of Yamuna.
Yamuna
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Uttar Pradesh, Plains, India, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Yamuna” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Yamuna”
- Angika: “जमुना नदी”
- Angika: “यमुना नदी”
- Arabic: “جمنة”
- Arabic: “نهر جمنة”
- Arabic: “نهر يامونا”
- Armenian: “Ջամնա”
- Armenian: “Ջամշեդպուր”
- Assamese: “যমুনা নদী”
- Asturian: “Ríu Yamuna”
- Awadhi: “यमुना नदी”
- Azerbaijani: “Camna”
- Balinese: “Yamuna”
- Bashkir: “Джамна”
- Basque: “Iamuna ibaia”
- Basque: “Iamuna”
- Basque: “Jamuna ibaia”
- Basque: “Jamuna”
- Basque: “Jumna ibaia”
- Basque: “Jumna”
- Basque: “Yamuna ibaia”
- Belarusian: “Джамна”
- Belarusian: “Рака Джамна”
- Bengali: “যমুনা নদী”
- Bhojpuri: “यमुना”
- Breton: “Yamuna”
- Bulgarian: “Ямуна”
- Burmese: “ယမုနာမြစ်”
- Burmese: “ယမုံနာမြစ်”
- Catalan: “Jamna”
- Catalan: “Jumma”
- Catalan: “Jumna”
- Catalan: “Yamuna”
- Cebuano: “Yamuna River”
- Cebuano: “Yamuna”
- Chinese: “亚穆纳河”
- Chinese: “亞穆納河”
- Chinese: “朱木拿河”
- Chinese: “朱木納河”
- Chinese: “朱木纳河”
- Chinese: “閻牟那河”
- Chinese: “阎牟那河”
- Chuvash: “Джамна”
- Croatian: “Jamuna”
- Czech: “Jamuna”
- Danish: “Yamuna”
- Dutch: “Jumna”
- Dutch: “Yamuna”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر يامونا”
- Esperanto: “Jamuna”
- Esperanto: “Jamuno”
- Estonian: “Yamuna”
- Fiji Hindi: “Jamuna”
- Finnish: “Jamuna”
- Finnish: “Jumna”
- Finnish: “Yamuna”
- French: “Djomna”
- French: “Jumna”
- French: “Yamuna”
- French: “Yamunâ”
- Galician: “Río Yamuna”
- Galician: “Yamuna”
- Georgian: “ჯამნა”
- German: “Yamuna”
- Goan Konkani: “यमुना”
- Greek: “Ασίτα”
- Greek: “Γιαμούνα”
- Greek: “Ιομάνης”
- Greek: “Τζάμνα”
- Guarani: “Ysyry Jamúna”
- Gujarati: “યમુના”
- Hebrew: “יאמונה”
- Hindi: “जमुना”
- Hindi: “बागमती नदी”
- Hindi: “यमुना नदी”
- Hindi: “यमुना”
- Hungarian: “Jamuna”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Yamuna”
- Indonesian: “Yamuna”
- Irish: “Abhainn Yamuna”
- Irish: “Yamuna”
- Italian: “Yamuna”
- Japanese: “ヤムナ”
- Japanese: “ヤムナー川”
- Japanese: “ヤムナ川”
- Kannada: “ಯಮುನಾ ನದಿ”
- Kannada: “ಯಮುನಾ”
- Kirghiz: “Жамна”
- Komering: “Batangari Yamuna”
- Komering: “Way Yamuna”
- Korean: “야무나강”
- Latin: “Iamuna”
- Latvian: “Jamuna”
- Lithuanian: “Džamna”
- Lithuanian: “Jamuna”
- Macedonian: “Јамуна”
- Maithili: “यमुना नदी”
- Malay: “Sungai Yamuna”
- Malayalam: “Yamuna”
- Malayalam: “യമുന നദി”
- Malayalam: “യമുന”
- Malayalam: “യമുനാ നദി”
- Marathi: “यमुना नदी”
- Marathi: “यमुना”
- Mingrelian: “ჯამუნა”
- Nepali: “यमुना नदी”
- Nepali: “यमुना”
- Newari: “यमुना खुसि”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jumna”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yamuna”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yamuna”
- Norwegian: “Yamuna”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Yamuna”
- Oriya: “ଯମୁନା”
- Ossetian: “Джамнæ”
- Ossetian: “Ямунæ”
- Panjabi: “ਜਮਨਾ ਦਰਿਆ”
- Panjabi: “ਯਮੁਨਾ ਨਦੀ”
- Persian: “جمنا”
- Persian: “رود یامونا”
- Persian: “یامونا”
- Persian: “یمونا”
- Polish: “Jamuna”
- Polish: “Yamuna”
- Portuguese: “Rio Jamuna”
- Portuguese: “Rio Yamuna”
- Portuguese: “Yamuna”
- Russian: “Джамна”
- Russian: “Ямуна”
- Sanskrit: “गङ्गानदी”
- Sanskrit: “यमुना नदी”
- Sanskrit: “यमुना”
- Sanskrit: “यमुनानदी”
- Santali: “ᱡᱚᱢᱩᱱᱟ ᱜᱟᱰᱟ”
- Scots: “Yamuna”
- Serbian: “Jamuna”
- Serbian: “Јамуна”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jamuna”
- Slovak: “Džamna”
- Slovak: “Jamuna”
- Slovak: “Jumna”
- Slovenian: “Jamuna”
- South Azerbaijani: “جمنا چایی”
- Spanish: “Iami”
- Spanish: “Iamuna”
- Spanish: “Iamuná”
- Spanish: “Rio Iamna”
- Spanish: “Río Iamna”
- Spanish: “Rio Iamuna”
- Spanish: “Río Iamuna”
- Spanish: “Rio Jamna”
- Spanish: “Río Jamna”
- Spanish: “Rio Jumna”
- Spanish: “Río Jumna”
- Spanish: “Rio Yamun”
- Spanish: “Río Yamun”
- Spanish: “Rio Yamuna”
- Spanish: “Rio Yamuná”
- Spanish: “Rio Yamunā”
- Spanish: “Río Yamuna”
- Spanish: “Río Yamunā”
- Spanish: “Yamun”
- Spanish: “Yamuna”
- Spanish: “Yamuná”
- Swahili: “Yamuna”
- Swedish: “Jumna”
- Swedish: “Yamuna”
- Swedish: “Yamunafloden”
- Swiss German: “Yamuna”
- Tagalog: “Yamuna”
- Tamil: “யமுனா”
- Tamil: “யமுனை ஆறு”
- Tamil: “யமுனை”
- Telugu: “యమునా నది”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำยมุนา”
- Tosk Albanian: “Yamuna”
- Tulu: “ಯಮುನಾ ಸುದೆ”
- Turkish: “Yamuna Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Джамна”
- Ukrainian: “Ямуна”
- Urdu: “جمنا”
- Urdu: “دریائے جمنا”
- Urdu: “دریائےجمنا”
- Uzbek: “Jamna”
- Venetian: “Fiume Yamuna”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Yamuna”
- Vietnamese: “Yamuna”
- Waray (Philippines): “Yamuna”
- Welsh: “Afon Jumna”
- Welsh: “Afon Yamuna”
- Western Armenian: “Եամունա գետ”
- Western Panjabi: “دریائے جمنا”
- Wu Chinese: “亚穆纳河”
- Yiddish: “יאמונע”
- Yue Chinese: “亞穆納河”
- “जमुना”
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