The Indo-Gangetic Plain is a rich, fertile and ancient land encompassing most of northern and eastern India, the most populous parts of Pakistan, and virtually all of Bangladesh. The Plains get their names from the rivers Ganges and Indus. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Early morning on the Ganges The River Ganges (Ganga in Indian languages) (Devanagiri गंगा) is a major river in northern India. ... The Indus (Daria-e-Sindh, सिन्‍धु नदी) (known as Sindhu to Indians and in Sanskrit, as Sinthos in Greek, and Sindus in Latin) is the principal river of Pakistan. ...

It stretches from:

• Kashmir in the north;
• the Punjab region of Pakistan and Aravalli Range, Rajasthan in the west; and
• Himalayan foothills in the east and the Deccan Plateau in the south.

The fertile Terai region is the Nepalese extension of the Plain. The rivers encompassed are the Ganga (Ganges), Indus, Beas, Yamuna, Gomti, Ravi, Chambal, Sutlej, Chenab. The soil is rich in silt, making the plain one of the most intensely farmed areas of the world. Even rural areas here are densely populated. Punjab, 1903 Punjab Province, 1909 The Punjab (Meaning: Land of five Rivers) (also Panjab, Gurmukhi: ਪੰਜਾਬ, Devanagari: पंजाब, Shahmukhi: پنجاب) is a region straddling the border between India and Pakistan. ... The Aravalli Range is a range of mountains in western India running approximately 300 miles northeast-southwest across Rajasthan state. ... Rajasthan (राजस्थान) is the geographically largest state in northwestern India. ... The Himalaya is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. ... Introduction The Deccan Plateau is a vast plateau in India, encompassing most of Central and Southern India. ... The Terai, or Tarai (i. ... Early morning on the Ganges The River Ganges hu (Ganga in Indian languages) (Devanagiri गंगा) is a major river in northern India. ... The Indus (Daria-e-Sindh, सिन्‍धु नदी) (known as Sindhu to Indians and in Sanskrit, as Sinthos in Greek, and Sindus in Latin) is the principal river of Pakistan. ... Indias Beas River, known as Arjiki and then Vipas to Indians in Vedic times and the Hyphasis to Greeks, marks the most easterly extent of the conquests of Alexander the Great in 326 BC. The river begins at the Rohtang Pass in Himachal Pradesh, and eventually joins the Sutlej... The river Yamuna is a major river of northern India, with a total length of around 1370 km. ... The Gomti River is one of the tributaries of the river Ganga. ... (راوی)A river 450 mi (724 km) long in north India flowing southwest to the Chenab and forming part of boundary between Punjab provinces of India and Pakistan. ... The Chambal River is a tributary of the Yamuna River in central India. ... The Sutlej is a river that flows through Northern India, with its source in Tibet. ... The Chenab River rises in the Himalayan ranges of Kashmir and flows through the plains of the Punjab, forming the boundary between the Rechna and the Jech Doabs. ...

Farming on the Indo-Gangetic Plain primarily consists of rice and wheat grown in rotation. Other crops include maize, sugarcane, and cotton. The main source of rainfall is the southwest monsoon, which is normally sufficient for agriculture except for occasional droughts. The many rivers flowing out of the Himalayas provide water for major irrigation works. Species References ITIS 41975 2002-09-22 Rice (genus Oryza) is a plant of the grass family which is a dietary staple of more than half of the worlds human population. ... Species T. boeoticum T. durum T. monococcum T. spelta References:   ITIS 42236 2002-09-22 Wheat (Triticum spp. ... Binomial name Zea mays L. Maize (Zea mays ssp. ... Species Saccharum arundinaceum Saccharum bengalense Saccharum edule Saccharum officinarum Saccharum procerum Saccharum ravennae Saccharum robustum Saccharum sinense Saccharum spontaneum Sugarcane or Sugar cane (Saccharum) is a genus of between 6-37 species (depending on taxonomic interpretation) of tall grasses (family Poaceae, tribe Andropogoneae), native to warm temperate to tropical regions... Cotton is a soft fibre that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant, a shrub native to the tropical and subtropical regions of both the Old World and the New World. ... Monsoon in the Vindhya, a mountain chain in central India A monsoon is a periodic wind, especially in the Indian Ocean and southern Asia. ...

The region is also known for the Indus Valley Civilisation and is responsible for the birth of ancient India. The flat and fertile terrain has facilitated the repeated rise and expansion of empires, including Magadha and the Maurya empire, the Gupta empire, Kanauj, the Sultanate of Delhi, and the Mughal Empire, all of which had their demographic and political centres in the Indo-Gangetic plain. Both British and independent India also have their centres here (in first Calcutta and then New Delhi). The Indus Valley Civilization existed along the Indus River and the Vedic Sarasvati River in present-day Pakistan. ... Magadha was an ancient kingdom of India, mentioned in both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. ... Chandragupta Maurya (ruled 322–298 BC), known to the Greeks as Sandracottus, was the first emperor of the Mauryan empire. ... Silver coin of the Gupta King Kumara Gupta I (414-455 CE). ... Kanauj, or Kannauj, is an ancient city of Uttar Pradesh state of India (1991 pop. ... The Delhi Sultanate, or Sulthanath-e-Hind/Sulthanath-e-Dilli refers to the various dynasties that ruled in India from 1210 to 1526. ... The Mughal Empire (Urdu: مغل باد شاہ, Mughal Baadshah, alternative spelling Mogul, which is the origin of the word Mogul) of India was founded by the Turkic leader Babur in 1526, when he defeated Ibrahim Lodi, the last of the Delhi Sultans at the First Battle of Panipat. ... This article is on Calcutta/Kolkata, the city. ... New Delhi ( नई दिल्ली ) is the capital of India, and is part of the National capital territory of Delhi. ...

The languages of the Indo-Gangetic plain are overwhelmingly Indo-Aryan; today, Hindi and Urdu (and spoken Hindustani) are the major lingua francas of this region. There is in addition a great variety of regional languages, which in several cases form a dialect chain with one another. Both Hinduism and Islam are extremely well established here; the Indo-Gangetic plain is also the birthplace of Sikhism, Buddhism, and Jainism. The Indo-Aryan languages form a subgroup of the Indo-Iranian languages, thus belonging to the Indo-European family of languages. ... Hindi (हिन्दी) is a language spoken in most states in northern and central India. ... Urdu(اردو) is an Indo-European language which originated in India, most likely in the vicinity of Delhi, from whence it spread to the rest of the subcontinent. ... The word Hindustani is an adjective used to denote a connection to India, or, more precisely, the historical region that encompasses Northern India, Pakistan, and nearby areas. ... A dialect continuum is a range of dialects spoken across a large geographical area, differing only slightly between areas that are geographically close, and gradually decreasing in mutual intelligibility as the distances become greater. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Islam   listen? (Arabic: al-islām) the submission to God is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions, and the worlds second largest religion. ... The Golden Temple is the a sacred shrine for Sikhs Sikhism (Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖੀ) the religion developed in the 15th Century. ... Statues of Buddha such as this, the Tian Tan Buddha statue in Hong Kong, remind followers to practice right living. ... The holiest Jain symbol is the right facing swastika, or svastika, shown above. ...

Among the largest cities of the Indo-Gangetic plain are Kolkata, Delhi, Karachi, Dhaka, Rawalpindi-Islamabad, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Kanpur, and Patna. Kolkata (Bangla: কলকাতা, Hindi: कोलकता), is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal and was capital of British India until 1912. ... Delhi (दिल्ली in Hindi and دیلی in Urdu) is a metropolis in India. ... Karachi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... One of the Many modern buildings that came up in Dhaka recent years. ... Rawalpindi is a city near Islamabad, Pakistan. ... Faisal Mosque, located in Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan, was built in 1986. ... Ahmedabad (Amdavad in Gujarati) or Ahmadābād is the largest city in Gujarat and the sixth largest city in India with a population of almost 5 million. ... Lucknow is the capital city of the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. ... Ludhiana in India is the largest city of [[Punjab situated on banks of river Sutlej. ... Kānpur (known as Cawnpore before 1948) is the most populous city in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. ... Patna is the capital of the Indian state of Bihar. ...