🇮🇳 Ganges (Ganga)

India's most sacred river; sustains 400 million people along its banks

India 1917 Great Rivers

🌊 Key Facts

2,525 km from Gangotri glacier in Uttarakhand to Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh

Sustains over 400 million people — one of the most populous river basins on Earth

Sacred to Hinduism — believed to cleanse sin; millions bathe in it daily at Varanasi, Allahabad

Declared India's "National River" in 2008; worshipped as the goddess Ganga Ma