Rivers and cities of India

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A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually fresh water flowing towards sea, ocean, lake or another river. Rivers are part of hydrological cycle. Here, we can learn about rivers of India and cities situated on their banks .

Rivers in India are manily classified into 3 categories like Himalayan rivers, Peninsular rivers and Inland drainage basin rivers.

        1) Himalayan rivers :-  These are the rivers which flow throughout the year thats why they are also called as Perennial rivers. These rivers cover a very long distance. These rivers have their origin in Himalayas like Ganga originates from Gangotri glacier at Gomukh of Himalayan range, Yamuna originates from Yamunotri glacier near Banderpooch, Uttarakhand. Brahmputra river originates from Chemayungdung glacier near Mansarover lake of Tibet. While, Indus river originates from Bokhar Chu glacier of Kailash mountains.

        2) Peninsular rivers :- These rivers are not flowing through out the year thats why they are called as non-perennial rivers. These rivers cover a shorter distance as comparison to Himalayan rivers. So, we can say that a large number of peninsular rivers are seasonal as their flow depends upon amount of rainfall. These rivers have shallower course. Most of these rivers originate from Western ghats and flow towards Bay of Bengal, but Narmada and Tapi river flow towards Arabian sea.

       3) Inland drainage basin :- Usually a river drains or ends in the sea, ocean but this is not the case with the Inland drainage basin. Here, the river do not directly end up in the ocean or sea instead it ends in an inland body like lake. Their streams dry up during summer while cause floods during heavy rainfall. Two main rivers that form inland drainage systema are Luni and Ghaggar. Inland drainage system mainly founds in Rajasthan.

Major Himalayan rivers are :-

  • Indus
  • Ganga
  • Yamuna
  • Brahmputra 

Major Peninsular rivers are :-

  • Godavari
  • Krishna
  • Cauveri
  • Mahanadi
  • Narmada
  • Tapi

List of rivers and cities of india are :-

City

State

River
Delhi Delhi Yamuna
Agra Uttar Pradesh Yamuna
Prayagraj (Allahabad) Uttar Pradesh Confluence of Ganga, Yamuna & Saraswati
Lucknow Uttar Pradesh Gomti
Ayodhya Uttar Pradesh Sarayu
Haridwar Uttarakhand Ganga
Ahmedabad Gujarat Sabarmati
Vijaywada Andhra Pradesh Krishna
Ujjain Madhya Pradesh Shipra
Nasik Maharashtra Godavari
Kolkata West Bengal Hooghly
Kota Rajasthan Chambal
Kanpur Uttar Pradesh Ganga
Hyderabad Telangana Musi
Badrinath Uttarakhand Alaknanda
Bhagalpur Bihar Ganga
Dibrugarh Assam Brahmputra
Guwahati Assam Brahmputra
Chennai Tamil Nadu Adyar and Cooum
Gwalior Madhya Pradesh Chambal
Jabalpur Madhya Pradesh Narmada
Ludhiana Punjb Sutlej
Varanasi Uttar Pradesh Ganga
Tiruchirappalli Tamil Nadu Cauveri
Cuttack Odisha Mahanadi
Sambalpur Odisha Mahanadi
Gaya Bihar Phalgu
Kurnool Andhra Pradesh Tungabhadra
Mathura Uttar Pradesh Yamuna
Pune Maharashtra Confluence of Mula and Mutha river
Srinagar Jammu & Kashmir Jhelum
Surat Gujarat Tapi
Madurai Tamil Nadu Vegai
Rourkela Odisha Brahmani
Pandharpur Maharashtra Bhima
Coimbatore Tamil Nadu Noyyal
Jamshedpur Jharkhand Subarnrekha
Ferojpur Punjab Sutlej
Jaunpur Uttar Pradesh Gomti
Vadodara Gujarat Vishwamitri
Panaji Goa Mandovi
Srirangapatnam Karnataka Cauveri
Jhansi Uttar Pradesh Betwa
Durgapur West Bengal Damodar
Dhaulpu Rajasthan Chambal
Kullu Himachal Pradesh Beas
Hampi Karnataka Tungabhadra

Attempt the questions related to rivers and cities of India and check your progress with the answer sheet given below and do let us know your score in the comments section :-

Question (A) : Which of the tributary of Indus river is flowing through Srinagar ?

  1.  Cauveri
  2.  Jhelum
  3.  Mahanadi
  4.  Betwa

Question (B) : Ayodhya is situated on the bank of which river ?

  1.  Ganga
  2.  Yamuna
  3.  Gomti
  4.  Sarayu

Question (C) : Which of the following city is located on the confluence of river Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati ?

  1.   Ahmedabad
  2.   Ujjain
  3.   Prayagraj
  4.   Haridwar

Question (D) : Cooum river flows through which of the following cities ?

  1.   Tiruchirappalli
  2.   Madurai
  3.   Coimbatore
  4.   Chennai

Question (E) : Vijaywada is situated on the banks of which river ?

  1.   Cauveri
  2.   Krishna
  3.   Musi
  4.   Vegai

Question (F) : Which rivers are known as sorrow of Bengal and Bihar respectively ?

  1.   Kosi and Damodar
  2.   Damodar and Gandak
  3.   Damodar and Kosi
  4.   Phalgu and Kosi

Question (G) : Which river of India cuts the tropic of cancer twice ?

  1.   Luni
  2.   Tapi
  3.   Mahi
  4.   Musi

Question (H) : Which river of India forms the largest basin ?

  1.   Brahmputra
  2.   Yamuna
  3.   Ganga
  4.   Godavari

Question (I) : Match the rivers with the cities through which they are flowing and select the correct answer from the codes given below ?

                    (City)                                                 (River) 

    1.  Kolkata                                       i)   Alaknanda
    2.  Badrinath                                  ii)   Cauveri
    3.  Srinagar                                    iii)   Hooghly

    4.  Tiruchirappalli                         iv)    Jhelum

      Code :

               A       B       C       D

      1.   iv)      i)      iii)       ii)
      2.   iii)      i)      ii)       iv)
      3.   iv)      ii)      i)       iii)
      4.   iii)      i)      iv)       ii)       

Question : (J) Match list – I with list – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :

                (City)                                                   (River)

  1.     Agra                                                 i)    Shipra
  2.     Jabalpur                                          ii)   Chambal
  3.     Gwalior                                           iii)   Narmada
  4.     Ujjain                                               iv)   Yamuna

              A       B       C       D

  1.   ii)     iii)      i)      iv)
  2.   iii)    ii)      iv)      i)
  3.   iv)    iii)      ii)      i)
  4.    i)     iv)      ii)      iii)       

Question (K) : Which of the following river flows towards west and finally drains in the Arabian sea ?

  1.   Cauveri
  2.   Krishna
  3.   Narmada
  4.   Vegai

Question (L) : Kurnool is situated on the bank of which river ?

  1.   Krishna
  2.   Tungabhadra
  3.   Narmada
  4.   Tapi

Question (M) : Which of the following river flows through Nasik ?

  1.   Godavari
  2.   Hooghly
  3.   Narmada
  4.   Musi

Question (N) : Which of the following river flows through the city of Kolkata ?

  1.   Cauveri
  2.   Krishna
  3.   Narmada
  4.   Hooghly

Question (O) : Which of the following city is located on the bank of river Musi ?

  1.   Lucknow
  2.   Vijayawada
  3.   Kurnool
  4.   Hyderabad

Question (P) : TISCO (Tata iron and steel corporation is located in Jamshedpur, a city of Jharkhand is situated on the banks of which of the following river ?

  1.   Cooum
  2.   Subarnrekha
  3.   Narmada
  4.   Betwa

ANSWERS

Answer A) :-   2 (Jhelum)

Answer (B) :-  4 (Sarayu)

Answer (C) :-  3 (Prayagraj)

Answer (D) :-  4 (Chennai)

 Answer (E) :- 2 (Krishna)

Answer (F) :-  3 (Damodar and Kosi)

Answer (G) :- 3 (Mahi)

Answer (H) :- 3 (Ganga)

Answer (I) :-  4 

Answer (J) :-  3 

Answer (K) :-  3 (Narmada)

Answer (L) :- 2 (Tungabhadra)

Answer (M) :- 1 (Godavari)

Answer (N) :-  4 (Hooghly)

Answer (O) :-  4 (Hyderabad)

Answer (P) :-  2 (Subarnrekha) TISCO is situated on the banks of Subarnrekha and Kharkai rivers.

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