Among the few large rivers flowing into the Indian Ocean are the Zambezi, Shatt al-Arab, Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Jubba and Irrawaddy River.

* Brahmaputra River in Bangladesh visited the area on his way from China.

Eastward from Bhutan and north of the Brahmaputra River ( Yarlung Zangbo Jiang ) lies a large area controlled and administered by India but claimed by the Chinese.

The Indus, one of the great rivers of the world, rises in southwestern Tibet only about 160 kilometres west of the source of the Sutlej River, which joins the Indus in Punjab, and the Brahmaputra, which runs eastward before turning southwest and flowing through Bangladesh.

The Brahmaputra originates as the Yarlung Tsangpo River in western Tibet, and flows east through Tibet and west through the plains of Assam.

Beginning in 1202, a military commander from the Delhi Sultanate, Bakhtiar Khilji, overran Bihar and Bengal as far east as Rangpur, Bogra and the Brahmaputra River.

But it remained remote and thus a difficult to govern the region especially the section east of the Brahmaputra River remained outside the mainstream of Mughal politics.

A number of large rivers – the Ganges and its distributaries such as Padma and Hooghly, Brahmaputra and its distributaries such as Jamuna, Meghna, Irrawaddy River, Godavari, Mahanadi, Krishna and Kaveri – flow into the Bay of Bengal.

The river region is characterised by fertile mountain valleys and includes the Yarlung Tsangpo River ( the upper courses of the Brahmaputra ) and its major tributary, the Nyang River, the Salween, the Yangtze, the Mekong, and the Yellow River.

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In Assam, in the northeast of India, all the peoples living south of the Brahmaputra River — Garos, Khasis, Nagas, and Kukis — formerly were headhunters including the Mizo of the Lusei Hills who also hunt heads of their enemies which was later abolished with Christianity introduced in the region.

The Ganges river dolphin is primarily found in the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers and their tributaries in Bangladesh, India and Nepal, while the Indus river dolphin is found in the Indus River in Pakistan and its Beas and Sutlej tributaries.

Other notable features include the Brahmaputra River, the mystery of the bird suicides in Jatinga, numerous temples including Kamakhya of Tantric sect.

The river region is characterized by fertile mountain valleys and includes the Yarlung Tsangpo River ( the upper courses of the Brahmaputra ) and its major tributary, the Nyang River, the Salween, the Yangtze, the Mekong, and the Yellow River.

It extends for from Bhutan in the west to east of the great bend of the Brahmaputra River in the east, largely along the crest of the Himalayas.

It lies near the source of some of the longest rivers in Asia: the Indus River, the Sutlej River ( a major tributary of the Indus River ), the Brahmaputra River, and the Karnali River ( a tributary of the Ganges River ).

The area around these features is the hydrographic nexus of South Asia since it holds the sources of the Indus and its major tributary the Sutlej, the Karnali -- a Ganges tributary -- and the Yarlung Tsangpo / Brahmaputra.

Formed by a delta plain at the confluence of the Ganges ( Padma ), Brahmaputra ( Jamuna ), and Meghna Rivers and their tributaries, Bangladesh's alluvial soil is highly fertile, but vulnerable to flood and drought.

Most of the country is situated on deltas of large rivers flowing from the Himalayas ; the Ganges unites with the Jamuna ( main channel of the Brahmaputra ) and later joins the Meghna to eventually empty into the Bay of Bengal

The Ganges / Brahmaputra combination delta spans most of Bangladesh and West Bengal, empties into the Bay of Bengal and is the world's largest delta.

It is based on the name " Assam " by which the tract consisting of the Brahmaputra Valley was known.

' Gurdwara Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur also known as Damdama Sahib at Dhubri '- This famous Gurudwara is situated in the heart of the Dhubri Town on the bank of the mighty Brahmaputra river in far north-east India.

The Ahom script is an abugida that was used to write the Ahom language, an extinct Tai language spoken by the Ahom people who ruled eastern part of Brahmaputra valley — about one-third of the length of Brahmaputra valley — in the Indian state of Assam between the 13th and the 18th centuries.

It is believed that the Ahom people adopted the script from either Old Mon, or Old Burmese, before migrating to the Brahmaputra Valley.

Another local name for the mountain is Tisé () mountain, which derives from ti tse in the Zhang-Zhung language, meaning " water peak " or " river peak ", connoting the mountain's status as the source of the mythical Lion, Horse, Peacock and Elephant Rivers, and in fact the Indus, Yarlung Tsangpo / Dihang / Brahmaputra, Karnali and Sutlej all begin in the Kailash-Lake Manasarovar region.

According to Zimmermann ’ s first description of 1780, the rhesus macaque is distributed in eastern Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, as far east as the Brahmaputra Valley in peninsular India, Nepal and northern Pakistan.

In the east of India, south of the Brahmaputra River occurs chamelum while ripley is found in a small region in eastern Assam ( Margherita ).

* Western Assam, Western Assam is a region of Assam ( India ), situated in the great plains of the Brahmaputra valley

The campus of IITG is on the northern banks of Brahmaputra and abuts the North Guwahati town of Amingaon, pincode-781039.

The hostels are named after rivers and tributaries of North-East India: Manas, Dihing, Kapili, Siang, Kameng, Barak, Subansiri ( girl's hostel ), Umiam, Dibang and Brahmaputra, which is the biggest hostel among all the IIT's hostels, presently its boarder strength is 1140.

Geographically, apart from the Brahmaputra, Barak and Imphal valleys and some flat lands in between the hills of Meghalaya and Tripura, the remaining two-thirds of the area is hilly terrain interspersed with valleys and plains ; the altitude varies from almost sea-level to over 7000 metres above MSL.

kilometres, at a distance of 217 kilometres from Guwahati, with annual rainrfall of 2300 mm, Kaziranga National Park on the bank of Brahmaputra river with its swamps and tall thickets of elephant-grass, is home to world's largest population of Great Indian One-horned Rhinoceros, largest of the three Asian rhinos.

Also known as ' Mini Kaziranga ', the Orang National Park is situated on the northern bank of the river Brahmaputra, in the state of Assam, covering an area of 78. 81 sq.

The term " ethnic Assamese " is now associated by the Indian government with the Assamese-speaking people of the Brahmaputra valley ( see Assamese people ).

After the fall of Ahom kingdom and its subsequent occupation by British East India Company in 1826 CE, it became an district of British India, in the Brahmaputra valley division of Eastern Bengal and Assam.

The main watershed between the Brahmaputra ( called Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet ) and the Ganges system ( including all of Nepal ) actually lies north of the highest ranges.

As a whole the system forms the watershed between rivers flowing to the Indian Ocean – the Indus, Brahmaputra and Salween and its tributaries – and the streams flowing into the undrained salt lakes to the north.

As a whole the system forms the watershed between rivers flowing to the Indian Ocean – the Indus, Brahmaputra and Salween and its tributaries – and the streams flowing into the undrained salt lakes to the north.

This area constitutes the land between the river Brahmaputra and Aravli mountain ranges, the famous river Ganges, Yamuna, Ghaggra, Chambal and Brahmaputra flow through the area.

The Ahom language is a nearly extinct Tai language spoken by the Ahom people who ruled the Brahmaputra river valley in the present day Indian state of Assam between the 13th and the 18th centuries.

In the 19th century, the term as used in English referred to the northern region of India between the Indus and Brahmaputra rivers and between the Himalayas and the Vindhyas in particular, hence the term Hindustani for the Hindi-Urdu language.

Frank Kingdon-Ward started an expedition in 1924 in hopes of finding a major waterfall explaining the difference in altitude between the Tsangpo and the Brahmaputra.

The emerald-coloured river then forms the border between Sikkim and West Bengal before joining the Brahmaputra as a tributary in Bangladesh.

This range is about long enclosing an area that starts almost from the Indus and ends close to the Brahmaputra, with a gap of about between the Teesta and Raidak rivers in Assam.

The Battle of Saraighat was fought in 1671 between the Mughal empire ( led by the Kachwaha king, Raja Ramsingh I ), and the Ahom Kingdom ( led by Lachit Borphukan ) on the Brahmaputra river at Saraighat, now in Guwahati.

The Treaty fixed Barnadi river in the north bank and Asurar Ali in the south bank of the Brahmaputra as the boundary between the Ahoms and the Mughals.

The mighty Padma ( the portion of the Ganges between its junctions with Bhagirathi and Brahmaputra also known as the lower Ganges ), touches the district at its most northerly corner, at the point where it throws off the Jalangi, and flows along the northern border in a direction slightly south-east, until it leaves the district some miles to the east of Kushtia.

In 1811, the river Banar and Brahmaputra were declared boundary between Dhaka and Mymensingh district and the river Brahmaputra and Meghna as boundary between Tippera ( now Comilla ) and Mymensingh and Dhaka.

In 1875, the Brahmaputra was Made the boundary between Mymensingh and Rangpur and the portion of patiladaha, east of the river, was transferred to this district form Rangpur.