Varanasi - Benares, Uttar Pradesh, India-The City of Holy Ganges River

The Ganges (English pronunciation: /ˈɡændʒiːz/; Hindi: गंगा Ganga IPA: [ˈɡəŋɡaː] ( listen); Bengali: গঙ্গা Gônga), is one of the major rivers of the Indian subcontinent, flowing east through the Gangetic Plain of northern India into Bangladesh. The 2,510 km (1,560 mi) river rises in the western Himalayas in the Uttarakhand state of India, and drains into the Sunderbans delta in the