Along the Ganges River

The Ganges is 's longest and most important river, and a sacred river in Hinduism. At over 2,500 km long, the Ganges is the third-longest river in , after the Brahmaputra and the Indus.
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Photo: Wedstock 2011, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Wedstock 2011, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Intermittent stream
  • Description: major river in India
  • Also known as: “Ganga”, “Ganga Nadi”, “Ganges”, “Ganges River”, “River Ganges”, “Song”, and “Song River”
Photo: Argenberg, CC BY 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Raiwala Junction railway station.

Railway station
Photo: Paul Hamilton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a railway station at Raiwala and a junction to and stations. It is a significant but small railway station in , with minimal facilities. is situated 4 km west of Along the Ganges River.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Virbhadra and Rishikesh.

Hamlet
is a town in in the state of , located close to the pilgrimage town of . It is most known as the factory township of Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited, plant, a Government of India… is situated 5 km northeast of Along the Ganges River.

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, a small town in the northern state of , is famously known as the "yoga capital". Scenically located where the Ganges comes down from the Himalayas, catapulted to Western fame when the Beatles dropped by for a visit to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram.

Along the Ganges River

Latitude
30.0349° or 30° 2′ 6″ north
Longitude
78.24921° or 78° 14′ 57″ east
Elevation
314 metres (1,030 feet)
Open location code
8J2W26MX+XM
Geo­Names ID
1255753
Wiki­data ID
Q5089
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Along the Ganges River” 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 Ganches”
  • 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”
  • “Q5089”
  • “गंगा नदी”

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