The Indus River is one of the longest rivers in Asia at 3,610 km long. Originating in Tibet, it flows through Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the entire length of Punjab before emptying into the Arabian Sea near Thatta, Sindh in Pakistan. With an annual flow of around 243 km3, it is the twenty-first largest river in the world by discharge and has a drainage basin exceeding 1,165,000 km2.
The Indus River is one of the longest rivers in Asia at 3,610 km long. Originating in Tibet, it flows through Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the entire length of Punjab before emptying into the Arabian Sea near Thatta, Sindh in Pakistan. With an annual flow of around 243 km3, it is the twenty-first largest river in the world by discharge and has a drainage basin exceeding 1,165,000 km2.
The Indus River is one of the longest rivers in Asia at 3,610 km long. Originating in Tibet, it flows through Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the entire length of Punjab before emptying into the Arabian Sea near Thatta, Sindh in Pakistan. With an annual flow of around 243 km3, it is the twenty-first largest river in the world by discharge and has a drainage basin exceeding 1,165,000 km2.
The Indus River is one of the longest rivers in Asia at 3,610 km long. Originating in Tibet, it flows through Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the entire length of Punjab before emptying into the Arabian Sea near Thatta, Sindh in Pakistan. With an annual flow of around 243 km3, it is the twenty-first largest river in the world by discharge and has a drainage basin exceeding 1,165,000 km2.
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The Indus River (also called the Sindh or Absn), is a major south-flowing river in South
Asia. The total length of the river is 3,610 km (1,988mi) which makes it one of the longest rivers in Asia. Originating in the western part of Tibet in the vicinity of Mount Kailash and Lake Manasarovar, the river runs a course through Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and then flows along the entire length of Punjab to merge into the Arabian Sea near the city of Thatta in Sindh. It is the longest river and national river of Pakistan.[1]
The river has a total drainage area exceeding 1,165,000 km2 (450,000 sq mi). Its estimated annual flow stands at around 243 km3 (58 cu mi), twice that of the Nile River and three times that of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers combined, making it the twenty-first largest river in the world in terms of annual flow. The Zanskar is its left bank tributary in Ladakh. In the plains, its left bank tributary is the Chenab which itself has four major tributaries, namely, the Jhelum, the Ravi, the Beas, and the Sutlej. Its principal right bank tributaries are the Shyok, the Gilgit, the Kabul, the Gomal, and the Kurram. Beginning in a mountain spring and fed with glaciers and rivers in the Himalayas, the river supports ecosystems of temperate forests, plains and arid countryside.
The Indus forms the delta of present-day Pakistan mentioned in the Vedic Rigveda as Sapta Sindhu and the Iranian Zend Avesta as Hapta Hindu (both terms meaning "seven rivers"). The river has been a source of wonder since the Classical Period, with King Darius of Persia sending his Greek subject Scylax of Caryanda to explore the river as early as 510 BC. The Tigris and Euphrates, with their tributaries, form a major river system in Western Asia. From sources in the Taurus mountains of eastern Turkey they flow by/through Syria through Iraq into the Persian Gulf.[5] The system is part of the Palearctic TigrisEuphrates ecoregion, which includes Iraq and parts of Turkey, Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Jordan.
From their sources and upper courses in the mountains of eastern Anatolia, the rivers descend through valleys and gorges to the uplands of Syria and northern Iraq and then to the alluvial plain of central Iraq. The rivers flow in a south-easterly direction through the central plain and combine at Al-Qurnah to form the Shatt al-Arab and discharge into the Persian Gulf.[5]
The region has historical importance as part of the Fertile Crescent region, in which civilization is believed to have first emerged. The Yellow River or Huang Ho ( listen) is the third longest river in Asia, after the Yangtze River and Yenisei River, and the sixth-longest river system in the world at the estimated length of 5,464 km (3,395 mi).[1] Originating in the Bayan Har Mountains in Qinghai province of western China, it flows through nine provinces, and it empties into the Bohai Sea near the city of Dongying in Shandong province. The Yellow River basin has an eastwest extent of about 1,900 kilometers (1,180 mi) and a northsouth extent of about 1,100 km (680 mi). Its total drainage area is about 752,546 square kilometers (290,560 sq mi).
Its basin was the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilization, and it was the most prosperous region in early Chinese history. However, because of frequent devastating floods and course changes produced by the continual elevation of the river bed, sometimes above the level of its surrounding farm fields, it also has the names China's Sorrow and 'Scourge of the Han People'.
