General Knowledge for IAS Exams (Geography of India and The World)

RIVER SIDE CITIES:

(Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar)

Town River

• Kabul (Afghanistan): Kabul
• Allahabad: Confluence of Ganga, Yamuna, Saraswati (invisible)
• Varanasi: Ganga
• Nasik: Godawari
• Kolkata: Hooghly
• Cuttack: Mahanadi
• Patna: Ganga
• Chittagong (Bangladesh): Maiyani
• Lucknow: Gomati
• Jamshedpur: Subarnarekha
• Haridwar: Ganga
• Delhi: Yamuna
• Kanpur: Ganga
• Surat: Tapti
• Srinagar: Jhelum
• Ferozepur: Sutlej
• Ludhiana: Sutlej
• Karachi (Pak): Indus
• Yangon (Myanmar): Irawady
• Akyab (Myanmar): Irawady
• Vijaywada: Krishna
• Lahore (Pak): Ravi
• Paris (France): Seine
• Hamburg (Germany): Elbe
• Budapest (Hungary): Danube
• Rome (Italy): Tiber
• Warsaw (Poland): Vistula
• Bristol (U.K.): Avon
• London (U.K.): Thames
• New Castle (U.K.): Tyre

China

• Shanghai: Yang-tse-Kiang
• Nanking: Yang-tse-Kiang
• Chungking: Yang-tse-Kiang
• Canton: Si-Kiang

Middle East and Africa

• Cairo (Egypt): Nile
• Basra (Iraq): Tigris and Euphrates
• Ankara (Turkey): Kizil
• Baghdad (Iraq): Tigris
• Khartoum (Sudan): Blue and While Nile

Europe

• Berlin (Germany): Spree
• Belgrade: Dunube
• Cologne (Germany): Rhine
• Lisbon (Portugal): Tangus
• Glasgow (Scotland) Clyde

USA

• New York: Hudson
• Philadelphia: Delaware
• New Orleans: Mississippi
• Monetreal (Canada): Ottawa
• Quebec (Canada): St. Lawrence

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