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[ 0 => '', 1 => '{{Infobox settlement', 2 => '|name = Indus Basin', 3 => '|official_name = Indus Region', 4 => '|native_name = خطہِ مہران', 5 => '|native_name_lang = ur', 6 => '|settlement_type = [[Region]]', 7 => '|image_map = File:Khita-e-Mehran.png', 8 => '|map_caption = Indus Region<br>(''consists of [[Punjab]], [[Pashtunistan|Pakhtunkhwa]], [[Kashmir]], [[Sindh]] and [[Balochistan, Pakistan|Balochistan]]'')', 9 => '|image_map1 = Indus River basin map.svg', 10 => '|map_caption1 = Indus Region<br>(''Detailed'')', 11 => '|population_est = 300000000', 12 => '|pop_est_as_of = 2018', 13 => '|population_demonym = Mehrani', 14 => '|utc_offset1 = +05:00', 15 => '}}', 16 => 'The '''Indus Basin''' ({{lang-ur|ترائءِ دریاءِ سِندھ}}), also known as '''Indus Region''' ({{lang-ur|خطہِ مہران}}),<ref>{{Cite book |last=Albinia |first=Alice |title=Empires of the Indus |publisher=[[John Murray (publishing house)|John Murray Press]] |year=2012 |isbn=1848547862 |location=London |author-link=Alice Albinia}}</ref> is a [[Drainage basin|river basin]] draining 1,218,500 square kilometres<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Laghari |first=A. N. |last2=Vanham |first2=D. |last3=Rauch |first3=W. |date=2012 |title=The Indus basin in the framework of current and future water resources management |url=https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/16/1063/2012/hess-16-1063-2012.pdf |journal=Hydrology and Earth System Sciences |doi=10.5194/hess-16-1063-2012}}</ref> in the regions of [[Punjab]], [[Pashtunistan|Pakhtunkhwa]], [[Kashmir]], [[Sindh]] and [[Balochistan, Pakistan|Balochistan]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Khan |first=Sadiq I. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rHiDDwAAQBAJ |title=Indus River Basin: Water Security and Sustainability |last2=Adams |first2=Thomas E. |publisher=Elsevier Science |year=2019 |isbn=012812783X}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Gilmartin |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tAtaCAAAQBAJ |title=Blood and Water: The Indus River Basin in Modern History |publisher=University of California Press |year=2015 |isbn=0520960831}}</ref> ', 17 => '', 18 => 'To the north it borders [[Tibet]], to the west the regions of [[Hazarajat]] and [[Sistan]] and to the east the [[Ganges Basin]]. The region has a population of 237 million<ref name=":0" /> to 300 million people,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Adeel |first=Zafar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xb2YugEACAAJ |title=Imagining Industan: Overcoming Water Insecurity in the Indus Basin |last2=Wirsing |first2=Robert G. |publisher=Springer International Publishing |year=2018 |isbn=331981382X}}</ref> who consider themselves as part of a same "community" (''Ehl-e-Mehran'').<ref name=":1" /> ', 19 => '', 20 => 'The Indus Basin Irrigation System (IBIS) is the largest irrigation system in the world.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Yu |first=Winston |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UKeFvM_m2_sC |title=The Indus Basin of Pakistan: The Impacts of Climate Risks on Water and Agriculture |last2=Yang |first2=Yi-Chen |last3=Savitsky |first3=Andre |last4=Alford |first4=Donald |last5=Brown |first5=Casey |last6=Wescoat |first6=James |last7=Debowicz |first7=Dario |last8=Robinson |first8=Sherman |publisher=World Bank Publications |year=2013 |isbn=082139875X}}</ref>', 21 => '', 22 => '== Description ==', 23 => 'The source of the [[Indus River]] is [[Lake Manasarovar]]; from which the river enters the Indus Basin, where its tributaries [[Nubra River|Nubra]] and [[Zanskar River|Zanksar]] rivers join it in [[Kashmir]]. Then it flows just south of the [[Karakoram]] range where the [[Shyok River|Shyok]], [[Shigar]] and [[Gilgit River|Gilgit]] rivers join it. It continues southwards in [[Pashtunistan|Pakhtunkhaw]] region and is dammed at the [[Tarbela Dam|Tarbela Reservoir]] before its tributary, [[Kabul River]], joins it near [[Attock]]. It is then joined by the [[Kurrama River|Kurram]], [[Tochi river|Tochi]], [[Gomal River|Gomal]] and several other small tributaries. From there it enters [[Punjab]], where the flow of the river becomes slower, and is joined by its major eastern tributary, [[Panjnad River|Panjnad]] (confluence of [[Jhelum River|Jhelum]], [[Chenab River|Chenab]], [[Ravi River|Ravi]], [[Sutlej]] and [[Beas River|Beas]]) while from the west it is joined by [[Kundar River|Kundar]], [[Zhob River|Zhob]] and several small tributaries from the [[Balochistan, Pakistan|Balochistan]] region. The river then enters [[Sindh]] region where it is also joined by several small tributaries from Balochistan before it ends at the [[Indus River Delta]].<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Indus|volume=14|pages=507–508|first=Thomas Hungerford|last=Holdich}}</ref>', 24 => '', 25 => '== See also ==', 26 => '*[[Indus Basin Project]]', 27 => '', 28 => '== References ==', 29 => '{{reflist}}', 30 => '[[Category:Regions]]', 31 => '[[Category:Rivers of Pakistan]]', 32 => '[[Category:Rivers of Afghanistan]]', 33 => '[[Category:Rivers of India]]', 34 => '[[Category:Indus basin]]' ]