Ganges
The Ganges is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh. The 2,525-kilometre-long river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.Photo: Wedstock 2011, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Intermittent stream
- Description: major river in India
- Also known as: “Ganga”, “Ganga Nadi”, “Ganges River”, “River Ganges”, “Song”, and “Song River”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Raiwala Junction railway station.
Raiwala Junction railway station
Railway station
Photo: Paul Hamilton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Raiwala Junction railway station is a railway station at Raiwala and a junction to Dehradun and Rishikesh stations. It is a significant but small railway station in Dehradun district, Uttarakhand with minimal facilities. Raiwala Junction railway station is situated 4 km west of Ganges.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Virbhadra and Rishikesh.
Virbhadra
Hamlet
Virbhadra is a town in Dehradun district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, located close to the pilgrimage town of Rishikesh. It is most known as the factory township of Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited, Rishikesh plant, a Government of India… Virbhadra is situated 5 km northeast of Ganges.
Rishikesh
Rishikesh is a small town in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India. Scenically located where the Ganges River comes down from the Himalayas, Rishikesh catapulted to Western fame when the Beatles dropped by for a visit to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram.
Ganges
- Categories: river, sacred river, and body of water
- Location: Uttarakhand, Himalayan North, India, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Ganges” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Ganges”
- Albanian: “Ganga”
- Albanian: “Gangu”
- Amharic: “ጋንጅስ”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Γάγγης”
- Angika: “गंगा नदी”
- Angika: “गंगा”
- Arabic: “الغانج”
- Arabic: “غانج”
- Arabic: “غانغ”
- Arabic: “غانغا”
- Arabic: “نهر الجانج”
- Arabic: “نهر الغانج”
- Aragonese: “Río Gangas”
- Armenian: “Գանգես”
- Assamese: “গঙ্গা নদী”
- Asturian: “Ganxes”
- Awadhi: “गंगा नदी”
- Azerbaijani: “Qanq”
- Balinese: “Gangga”
- Bashkir: “Ганг”
- Basque: “Ganges”
- Bavarian: “Ganges”
- Belarusian: “Ганг”
- Bengali: “গঙ্গা নদী”
- Bhojpuri: “गंगा जी”
- Bhojpuri: “गंगा नदी”
- Bhojpuri: “गंगा”
- Bosnian: “Ganges”
- Breton: “Ganga”
- Bulgarian: “Ганг”
- Burmese: “ဂင်္ဂါမြစ်”
- Catalan: “Ganges”
- Cebuano: “Ganges River (suba, lat 23,83, long 89,75)”
- Cebuano: “Ganges River”
- Cebuano: “Ganges”
- Central Bikol: “Ganges”
- Central Kurdish: “ڕووباری گەنگ”
- Chechen: “Ганг”
- Chinese: “Hêng-hô”
- Chinese: “恆河”
- Chinese: “恒河”
- Chuvash: “Ганг”
- Cornish: “Ganga”
- Corsican: “Gange”
- Crimean Tatar: “Ganga”
- Croatian: “Ganges”
- Czech: “Ganga”
- Danish: “Ganges”
- Dhivehi: “ގަންގާ ކޯރު”
- Dimli (individual language): “Royê Ganji”
- Dutch: “Ganges”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر الجانج”
- Esperanto: “Gango”
- Estonian: “Ganges”
- Extremaduran: “Ríu Gangis”
- Fiji Hindi: “Ganga”
- Finnish: “Ganges”
- French: “Gange”
- Galician: “ganxes”
- Galician: “Río Ganxes”
- Georgian: “განგი”
- German: “Ganges”
- Gorontalo: “Dutula Gangga”
- Greek: “Γάγγης”
- Guarani: “Gánga”
- Guarani: “Ganges”
- Guarani: “Ysyry Ganges”
- Gujarati: “ગંગા નદી”
- Gujarati: “ગંગા”
- Hebrew: “גנגס”
- Hindi: “गंगा नदी”
- Hindi: “गंगा”
- Hindi: “गङ्गा नदी”
- Hindi: “गङ्गा”
- Hindi: “गन्गा”
- Hungarian: “Gangesz”
- Icelandic: “Ganges”
- Ido: “Ganga”
- Iloko: “Ganges”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Gangga”
- Ingush: “Гангхий”
- Interlingua: “Fluvio Ganges”
- Interlingua: “Ganges”
- Irish: “An Ghainséis”
- Italian: “Gange”
- Japanese: “ガンジス川”
- Japanese: “バングラデシュ”
- Javanese: “Kali Gangga”
- Kabardian: “Ганг”
- Kabiyè: “Kanzɩ pɔɔ”
- Kannada: “ಗಂಗಾ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Ganga dáryası”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Ганг”
- Kazakh: “Ганг”
- Khmer: “ទន្លេគង្គា”
- Kirghiz: “Ганг”
- Komering: “Batangari Gangga”
- Komering: “Way Gangga”
- Korean: “갠지스강”
- Kurdish: “Çemê Ganjê”
- Kurdish: “Ganga”
- Lao: “ແມ່ນໍ້າຄົງຄາ”
- Latin: “Ganges”
- Latvian: “Ganga”
- Lezghian: “Ганг”
- Limburgan: “Ganges”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Rio Ganga”
- Literary Chinese: “恆河”
- Lithuanian: “Ganga”
- Lombard: “Gange”
- Low German: “Ganges”
- Luxembourgish: “Ganges”
- Macedonian: “Ганг”
- Magahi: “गङ्गा नदी”
- Magahi: “गङ्गा”
- Magahi: “गङ्गाजी”
- Maithili: “गंगा नदी”
- Maithili: “गङ्गा नदी”
- Malagasy: “Ganga”
- Malagasy: “Gangesy”
- Malay: “Sungai Ganges”
- Malay: “Sungai Gangga”
- Malayalam: “ഗംഗാനദി”
- Manipuri: “ꯒꯪꯒꯥ”
- Maori: “Kānehi”
- Maori: “Kanihi”
- Marathi: “गंगा नदी”
- Mazanderani: “گنگ”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Hèng-ò̤”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hêng-hô”
- Mingrelian: “განგი”
- Mongolian: “Ганга мөрөн”
- Moroccan Arabic: “لڭانج”
- Moroccan Arabic: “واد لڭانج”
- Nepali: “गंगा नदी”
- Nepali: “गङ्गा नदी”
- Newari: “गङ्गा खुसि”
- Northern Frisian: “Ganges”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ganges”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ganges”
- Norwegian: “Ganges”
- Nyanja: “Mtsinje wa Ganges”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ganges”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Gandis”
- Oriya: “ଗଙ୍ଗା ନଦୀ”
- Ossetian: “Ганг”
- Panjabi: “ਗੰਗਾ ਦਰਿਆ”
- Persian: “گنگ”
- Piemontese: “Gange”
- Polish: “Ganges”
- Portuguese: “Rio Ganges”
- Pushto: “ګنګا سيند”
- Romanian: “Gange”
- Russia Buriat: “Ганга мүрэн”
- Russian: “Ганг”
- Rusyn: “Ґанґа”
- Sakizaya: “nu Yin-tu henhe hananay a sauwac”
- Samogitian: “Gangs”
- Sanskrit: “गंगा”
- Sanskrit: “गङ्गा”
- Sanskrit: “गङ्गानदी”
- Santali: “ᱜᱟᱝᱱᱟᱹᱭ”
- Saraiki: “دریائے گنگا”
- Serbian: “Ганг”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ganges”
- Shan: “ၼမ်ႉၵင်းၵႃႇ”
- Shan: “မႄႈၼမ်ႉၵင်းၵႃႇ”
- Sicilian: “Gangi”
- Sindhi: “گنگا ندي”
- Sindhi: “گنگا”
- Sinhala: “ගංගා නම් ගඟ”
- Slovak: “Ganga”
- Slovenian: “Ganges”
- South Azerbaijani: “گنگ”
- Spanish: “Ganga”
- Spanish: “Ganges”
- Spanish: “río Ganges”
- Swahili: “Ganga”
- Swedish: “Ganges River”
- Swedish: “Ganges”
- Swiss German: “Ganges”
- Tagalog: “Ilog Ganges”
- Tajik: “Ганг”
- Tajik: “Дарёи Гангес”
- Talysh: “Gang”
- Tamil: “கங்கை ஆறு”
- Tatar: “Gang”
- Telugu: “గంగా నది”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำคงคา”
- Tibetan: “གླང་ཆེན་ཁ་བབས།”
- Tosk Albanian: “Ganges”
- Tulu: “ಗಂಗಾ ಸುದೆ”
- Tulu: “ಗಂಗೆ”
- Turkish: “Ganj Nehri”
- Turkish: “Ganj”
- Turkmen: “Gang”
- Turkmen: “Ganga”
- Turkmen: “Ganges”
- Uighur: “گانگ دەرياسى”
- Ukrainian: “Ганг”
- Ukrainian: “Ґанґес”
- Upper Sorbian: “Ganges”
- Urdu: “دریائے گنگا”
- Uzbek: “Gang”
- Venetian: “Gange”
- Veps: “Gang”
- Vietnamese: “sông Hằng”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Hằng”
- Volapük: “Ganges (flumed)”
- Volapük: “Ganges”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ganges”
- Welsh: “Afon Ganga”
- Western Frisian: “Ganges”
- Western Panjabi: “دریاۓ گنگا”
- Wu Chinese: “殑伽河”
- Yakut: “Ганг”
- Yiddish: “גאנגעס”
- Yue Chinese: “恆河”
- “Gange”
- “Gangs”
- “गंगा नदी”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ghorī Reserved Forest and Shyampura Railroad Station.
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