River, north-central India.
Rising in the Himalayas, it flows south and southeast 855 mi (1,376 km) into the Ganges River at Allahabad; their confluence is a sacred place to Hindus. The Yamuna's upper course forms a long section of the border between Uttar Pradesh and Haryana states.
Tarai - Region of northern India and southern Nepal.
Agra - City (pop., 2001: 1,275,134), west-central Uttar Pradesh state, India.
New Delhi - City (pop., 2001: 302,363), capital of India, on the western bank of the Yamuna River, south of Old Delhi in the Delhi national capital territory.
Yamuna River - river in Uttar Pradesh state, northern India, rising in the Himalayas near Jamnotri. It flows in a southerly direction through the Himalayan foothills and onto the northern Indian plain, along the Uttar Pradesh-Haryana state border. The Eastern and Western Yamuna canals are fed from the river at that point.
Ganges-Yamuna Doab - segment of the Indo-Gangetic Plain in western and southwestern Uttar Pradesh state, northeastern India, with an area of about 23,360 square miles (60,500 square km). It lies between the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, west of the Upper Ganges Plain. The doab is about 500 miles (800 km) in length and 60 miles (100 km) in width and consists of a wide trough between the Great Himalayas to the north and ...
Betwa River - ("Containing Reeds"), river in northern India, rising in the Vindhya Range just north of Hoshangabad. It flows generally northeast through Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh states and empties into the Yamuna just east of Hamirpur after a 380-mile (610-kilometre) course. Nearly one-half of its course, which is not navigable, runs over the Malwa Plateau before it breaks into the upland of ...
Chambal River - river, northern India. The Chambal is the chief tributary of the Yamuna and rises in the Vindhya Range just south of Mhow, western Madhya Pradesh state. From its source it flows north into southeastern Rajasthan state. Turning northeast, it flows past Kota and along the Rajasthan-Madhya Pradesh border; shifting east-southeast, it forms a portion of the Uttar Pradesh-Madhya Pradesh border and ...
Brahmaputra River - major river of Central and South Asia. It flows some 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometres) from its source in the Himalayas to its confluence with the Ganges River, after which the mingled waters of the two rivers empty into the Bay of Bengal. Along its course it passes through the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, and Bangladesh. For most of its length, ...
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