River
Ganges
The Ganges builds a vast delta where it meets the Bay of Bengal, covered by the Sunderbans swamp forest and home to the Royal Bengal tiger.
Source: science.nasa.gov
Roughly 120 million people live on the delta, under repeated threat of flooding from Himalayan meltwater and the monsoon rains.
Source: science.nasa.gov
Find Ganges on the mapWhere it is
On the Atlas Quest map, the Ganges label sits at 25.1° N, 85.7° E, in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres.
Coordinates, names: Natural Earth, public domain.
Nearby places
The closest other places with pages here, measured between map label points:
- Tian Shan — about 2,000 km north
- Asia — about 2,600 km north
- Arabian Sea — about 2,600 km south-west
- Strait of Malacca — about 2,600 km south-east
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