🌊 Rivers · Northern and North-eastern Mountains
Brahmaputra
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One of the world’s largest rivers. It rises in the Chemayungdung glacier of the Kailash range near Mansarovar and flows east for nearly 1,200 km across southern Tibet as the Tsangpo (‘the purifier’). After a deep gorge near Namcha Barwa it enters India west of Sadiya in Arunachal Pradesh as the Siang or Dihang, takes the Dibang and Lohit, and runs 750 km through the Assam valley. It enters Bangladesh near Dhubri, where the Tista joins it and it is called the Jamuna, and merges with the Padma. Known for floods, channel shifting and bank erosion.
📘 NCERT Class 11, India: Physical Environment, Ch. 3 (Drainage System) ↗
Tributaries and parts of this system
📜 Near here in history
YugMap sites and events within about 20 km of the river as drawn on the map.
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