Ganga River System
All Important Facts Top MCQs ह िंदी + Eng
👉 Length of Ganga – 2525 KM
👉 Originates from – Gangotri Glacier
👉 Bhagirathi + Alaknanda – DevPrayag
👉 Longest tributary of Ganga – Yamuna
👉 Passes through 1 District of Jharkhand – Sahibganj
Imp Facts about Ganga River
• Ganga, It flows through India and Bangladesh
• Length is: 2525 Km (longest river in India
• The river originates from Gangotri glacier which is situated in the western
Himalayas in Uttarakhand.
• The river flows south and east through Gangetic plain of India and
Bangladesh and finally emptied into the Bay of Bengal.
• The left bank tributaries are Gomti, Gandak, Ghaghra, Kosi, Ramganga
and Mahananda and right-bank tributaries include Yamuna, Son and
Damodar, Tamsa and Punpun rivers.
Q.1.
The river Ganga originates from?
गिंगा नदी का उद्गम स्थल ै?
a) Mansrovar Lake in Tibet
b) Verinag stream in Jammu and Kashmir
c) Beas Kund near Rohtang passes in Himachal Pradesh
d) Gangotri glacier near Gaumukh
Option : D
Imp Facts
• The River Ganga rises from the Gangotri glacier
near Gaumukh (3,900 m) in the Uttarkashi district
of Uttarakhand. Here, it is known as the
Bhagirathi.
• At Devprayag, the Bhagirathi meets the
Alaknanda; then, it is known as the Ganga.
Q.2. Match the following
Place
a. Devprayag Bhagirathi + Alaknanda
b. Rudraprayag Mandakini + Alaknanda
c. Karnaprayag Pindar + Alaknanda
d. Vishnuprayag Dhauliganga + Alakananda
• Devprayag- Bhagirathi + Alaknanda
• Rudraprayag- Mandakini + Alaknanda
• Karnaprayag- Pindar + Alaknanda
• Vishnuprayag- Dhauliganga + Alaknanda
• Nandprayag – Nandakini + Alaknanda
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Q.3.
Which river is also known as Padma River?
कौनसी नदी को पदमा नाम से जानते ै?
a) Ganga • Padma River, main channel of the greater
Ganges (Ganga) River in BangladesH.
b) Hooghly
c) Brahmputra • Brahmputra river called jamuna in :
Bangladesh
d) Damodar
• Padma + Jamuna = Meghna
Option : A
Q.4.
Which of the following Ganga tributary originates
from the Amarkantak Plateau?
हनम्नहलखित में से कौन सी गिंगा की स ायक नदी अमरकिंटक
पठार से हनकलती ै?
a) Son • Son River is the southern and
second-largest tributary of the
b) Yamuna Ganges after the Yamuna
River.
c) Gandak
d) Chambal
Option : A
Q.5.Which of the following river originates from the Nepal-
China border in Tibet and joins Ganga near Hajipur
(Bihar)?
हनम्नहलखित में से कौन सी नदी हतब्बत में नेपाल-चीन सीमा से
हनकलती ै और ाजीपुर (हि ार) के पास गिंगा में हमल जाती ै?
a) Gandak
• The Gandak River (also
b) Gomati known as the Narayani and the
Gandak) is one of the major
c) Kosi rivers of Nepal and a left-bank
tributary of the Ganges in
d) Mahanada India.
Option : A
Q..
Bhagirathi river originates from?
भागीरथी नदी का उद्गम क ा से ोता ै?
a) Gomukh • One of the two headstreams
of the River Ganga.
b) Tapovan
• The Bhagirathi and Alaknanda
c) Kailash
join at Devprayag in Garhwal
d) Mansarovar and are thereafter known as
the Ganges.
Option : A
Q..
The river Alaknanda originates from which glacier?
अलकनिंदा नदी का उद्गम हकस ह मानी से ै?
a) Zemu • The Alaknanda is a Himalayan river
in the Indian state of Uttarakhand
b) Satopanth and one of the two headstreams of
the Ganges.
c) Gangotri
• The source of the Alaknanda River is
d) Pindari the confluence of Satopanth Glacier
and Bhagirathi Kharak Glacier.
Option : B
Q..
Which of the following rivers is a left bank tributary of
river Ganga?
इनमें से कौन सी नदी गिंगा की िाएिं भाग से स ायक नदी ै?
a) Ken
b) Son The other left bank tributaries of Ganga
are Ramganga, Gomti, Ghaghara,
c) Betwa Gandak, Kosi and Mahananda.
• The other right bank tributaries
d) Gandak
include Yamuna, Chambal, Ken,
Betwa, Son, and Damodar.
Option : D
Q..
Which of the following tributary of river Ganga
originates from Doodhatoli ranges in the district of
Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand and joins near
Farrukhabad (Uttar Pradesh)?
a) Ramganga
• originates from Doodhatoli
b) Gomati ranges in the district of Pauri
Garhwal, Uttarakhand.
c) Gandak
d) Kali
Option : A
Ganga River/ गिंगा नदी
• Uttrakhand
• Source – Gangotri
• Uttar Pradesh
• Discharge – Bay of Bengal • Jharkhand
• Bihar
• Tributaries – Yamuna, Son, Mahakali, Ghagra,
• West Bengal
Ramganga, Kosi, Gandak.
• Imp Fact – Longest River of India (Length 2525KM)
• Yamuna River is the longest tributary of the Ganga River.
• Known as Padma in Bangladesh
• Devprayag : Alaknanda meets river Bhagirathi - GANGA
Q..
Which city is Situated on the Left bank of river Ganga?
गिंगा नदी के िाएिं हकनारे पर खस्थत श र ै?
a) Aagra • Haridwar and Kanpur on :
Right of Ganga river
b) Varanasi
• Aagra is situated on : river
c) Haridwar
bank of Yamuna
d) Kanpur
Option : B
Q..
Ganga flows through how many districts of UTTAR
PRADESH?
उत्तर प्रदे श के हकतने हजलोिं से ोकर गिंगा नदी ि ती ै?
a) 28 • Ganges enters in U.P. from district
Bijnor and flows approximately 1140
b) 29 km in U.P.
c) 30 The Ganges joins the Yamuna at the
d) 27 Triveni Sangam in Prayagraj, Uttar
Pradesh.
Option : A
Q..
Ganga enters into plains for the first time?
गिंगा मैदानी भागोिं में सर्वप्रथम क ा प्रर्ेश करती ै?
• Longest tributary of Ganga : Yamuna
a) Aagra • Mahananda (last tributary)
b) Varanasi it rises in the Darjeeling hills.
c) Haridwar
• Gomati: is the only tributary river of Ganga
d) Kanpur that rises in the plains and not in hills.
• Gomat Taal which formally known as Fulhaar
Option : C jheel, Pilibheet UTTAR PRADESH.
Q..
Which is the largest delta in the world?
हर्श्व का सिसे िडा डे ल्टा कौनसा ै?
a) Sunderban delta • Ganga – Brahmputra Delta
b) Godavari
• Bacteriophages are key viruses
c) Krishna that can kill thousands of
harmful microbes generally
d) Mahanadi present at polluted sites that
present in river Ganga.
Option : A
Q..
Across which of the following river Farakka barrage built?
फरक्का िराज हकस नदी पर िना हुआ ै?
a) Ganga • Farakka water sharing treaty
between India and Bangladesh,
b) Hooghly signed in 1996.
• The Farakka Barrage built
c) Brahmputra
across the Ganga river located
d) Damodar in Murshidabad district, of
West Bengal.
Option : A
Q..
In which year Ganga declared as National river?
गिंगा को हकस र्र्व राष्ट्रीय नदी घोहर्त हकया गया?
a) 2008 • Namami gange project : June
2014
b) 2009
• Ganges River Dolphin (also
c) 2010 called susu) as the National
Aquatic Animal today (
d) 2007 declaration in 2009).
• Ganga action plan : 1985
Option : A
Question for You
Tehri Dam is located on which river?
हट री िािंध हकस नदी पर खस्थत ै?
a) Bhagirathi
b) Alaknanda
c) Mahanadi
d) Mahananda
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