Þis geƿrit hæfþ ƿordcƿide on Nīƿenglisce. |
Gandis | |
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Land | Indea |
Cumb landrīca | Indea |
Ofcyme | Gangotri Glacier |
Mūþ | Bay of Bengal |
Lengu | 2,525 kilometre |
Fruman hīehþ | 9 m |
Med. ēagang | 12,000 m³/s |
Wætertroges mearc | 1,060,000 km² |
Gandis Commons | |
Sēo Gandis Ēa (Ganga on Indiscum sprǣcum) is fyrst ēa in norðernum Indie. Heo aginneþ sƿa Bhagirathi ēa fram the Gangotri Glacier in the Uttaranchal Caucasus and joins the Alaknanda nēah Deoprayag to form Gandis. Then on, Gandis flēoƿeþ ofer Norþernan Indie miclan ƿangum (þāra Gandisƿangum) and empties in Bengal Byhte æfter dividing up into many distributaries. One of them is the Hoogli Ēa nēah Caligardamana, another major distributary being the Padma Ēa seo flēoƿeþ in Bangladesc. Seo Ēa langness is ymbe 1,570 mīla. The region encompassing the delta near the Bengal Byht healf is known as the Sunderbans (Beorhtan Ƿealdas) – a region of thick mangrove ƿeald, and ān þæs Cynelic Bengal tigres mægena eardena.
The Geamuna Ēa — seo is self miclu ēa, and nearly as sacred — is an brōcrīþ þǣre Gandis, and hiere mōtung is nēah what is the site of the traditional holy Hindu ceaster Prayag, seo man nū hēt Allahabad.
Man mæg tƿa cynn mereswīn in Gandis ēa sēon; þæt Gandis Ēa Mereswīn and þæt Irraƿaddy Meresƿīn. Ēac is Gandis notable in that it contains a rare species of freshwater shark, Glyphis gangeticus about which little is known.