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| Travelogue: By Country | By Date | India | May 2001 | |||||
| For most of its course the Ganga is a wide and sluggish stream. It flows through one of the most fertile and densely populated tracts of territory in the world -- from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal. The Ganga drains a quarter of India. For most of its course the Ganges flows through Indian territory, although its large delta in the Bengal area lies mostly in Bangladesh. | |
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