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    Indian towns are often located on river banks due to the important role rivers play in providing resources. Rivers supply water, facilitate transportation, generate electricity, and enable agriculture. As a result, most major Indian cities lie alongside rivers like the Ganga, Yamuna, Godavari, and others. This article lists over 30 Indian towns situated on the banks of rivers such as Agra on the Yamuna, Ahmedabad on the Sabarmati, Allahabad at the confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna, and Varanasi on the Ganga. Knowing these river bank towns is important for competitive exams.

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    Indian towns are often located on river banks due to the important role rivers play in providing resources. Rivers supply water, facilitate transportation, generate electricity, and enable agriculture. As a result, most major Indian cities lie alongside rivers like the Ganga, Yamuna, Godavari, and others. This article lists over 30 Indian towns situated on the banks of rivers such as Agra on the Yamuna, Ahmedabad on the Sabarmati, Allahabad at the confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna, and Varanasi on the Ganga. Knowing these river bank towns is important for competitive exams.

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    Indian towns are often located on river banks due to the important role rivers play in providing resources. Rivers supply water, facilitate transportation, generate electricity, and enable agriculture. As a result, most major Indian cities lie alongside rivers like the Ganga, Yamuna, Godavari, and others. This article lists over 30 Indian towns situated on the banks of rivers such as Agra on the Yamuna, Ahmedabad on the Sabarmati, Allahabad at the confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna, and Varanasi on the Ganga. Knowing these river bank towns is important for competitive exams.

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    Indian towns are often located on river banks due to the important role rivers play in providing resources. Rivers supply water, facilitate transportation, generate electricity, and enable agriculture. As a result, most major Indian cities lie alongside rivers like the Ganga, Yamuna, Godavari, and others. This article lists over 30 Indian towns situated on the banks of rivers such as Agra on the Yamuna, Ahmedabad on the Sabarmati, Allahabad at the confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna, and Varanasi on the Ganga. Knowing these river bank towns is important for competitive exams.

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    Rivers play an important role in the lives of the people of India. They provide potable water,
    cheap transportation, electricity and livelihood for a large number of people all over the country.
    Also, since the land near rivers is very fertile, it serves a number of agricultural purposes too. As
    a result, almost all the major cities and towns of India are located by the banks of rivers. In
    Geography, a bank generally refers to the land alongside a body of water. This article provides
    you with a list of Indian Towns on River Banks. Since this is an important article, download it as
    PDF and file it in your notes.

    Almost all major rivers of India begin their journeys at one of the three main watersheds The
    Himalaya and Karakoram mountain ranges (Northern India); the Sahyadri or the Western
    Ghats (Western India); or the Vindhya and Satpura mountain ranges (Central India). Most of
    the major rivers of India end up joining the Bay of Bengal or the Arabian Sea.

    Indian Towns on River Banks


    India is a country of rivers and most Indian cities lie on the banks of some of the major rivers in
    India. Further, these rivers have their own tributaries and distributaries. It is important that you
    know about them because competitive exams like SBI PO, SBI Clerk, IBPS PO, IBPS Clerk, RRB,
    etc. often ask questions related to rivers and their banks.

    Towns River bank


    Agra Yamuna
    Ahmedabad Sabarmati
    Allahabad Confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna
    Ayodhya Saryu
    Badrinath Alakananda
    Bareilly Ram Ganga
    Cuttack Mahanadi
    Delhi Yamuna
    Dibrugarh Brahmaputra

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    Ferozpur Sutlej
    Guwahati Brahmaputra
    Haridwar Ganga
    Hyderabad Musi
    Jabalpur Narmada
    Jamshedpur Subarnarekha
    Jaunpur Gomti
    Kanpur Ganga
    Kolkata Hooghly
    Kota Chambal
    Kurnool Tungabhadra
    Lucknow Gomti
    Ludhiana Sutlej
    Mathura Yamuna
    Nasik Godavari
    Panaji Mandavi
    Patna Ganga
    Sambalpur Mahanadi
    Srinagar Jhelum
    Srirangapatna Cauvery
    Surat Tapti
    Tiruchirappalli Cauvery
    Ujjain Shipra
    Varanasi Ganga
    Vijayvada Krishna

    We hope that this article on Indian Towns on River Banks was helpful. Try to locate these rivers
    on the map of India while practicing for your exam.

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