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Notes:
Land of Rivers – Bangladesh.
Land of Five Rivers – Punjab.
Land of Thousand Lakes – Finland.
Science of rivers – Potomology.
Largest Drainage Basin in the World – Amazon Basin.
Ganga River Dolphin – National Aquatic animal of India, City Animal of Guwahati.
Ganga Talao ("Lake of Ganga"), the crater lake is situated in – Mauritius.
Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin Sanctuary is located in – Bihar.
Most dangerous river in India – Kosi.
Sapta Sindhu – The seven Rigvedic rivers namely Saraswati, Shutudri (Sutlej), Parushni (Ravi), Asikni (Chenab), Vitasta (Jhelum), Vipasha (Beas), & Sindhu (Indus).
River of Lahore – Ravi.
Turmeric City of Maharashtra – Sangli.
Author of Periplus of the Erythraean Sea – Arrian of Nicomedia (believed to be).
Mahakali Treaty (1996) – India and Nepal jointly agreed to share the water of the river Mahakali (also known as river Sarada).
Other rivers shared between India & Nepal – Kosi & Gandhak.
Tomb of Noor Jahan is on the banks of – River Ravi.
The first hydroelectric power plant in India – Sidrapong hydroelectric power plant (Darjeeling, West Bengal, 1897).
Salt River – Luni.
The major river of Rajasthan – Luni.
The river which is known as Sagarmati at its origin – Luni.
The river that flows through the Thar Desert – Luni.
The Indian River that empties into the Palk Strait – Vaigai.
The only river in India that cuts the Tropic of Cancer twice – Mahi.
The highest waterfall in India, the Joy falls (Gersoppa falls) is on the river – Sharavati.
Doodh-Ganga river is located in – Srinagar (Jammu & Kashmir).
Humayun, on his ascension to the throne constructed a new city called Din Panah which was on the banks of – Yamuna.
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