This article deals with the Indus River. For other uses of the word Indus, see
Indus (disambiguation). The Indus River (
Urdu: Sindh;
Sindhi: Sindhu;
Sanskrit and
Hindi: सिन्धु ;
Persian: حندو ;
Pashto: ّآباسن"Father of Rivers";
Tibetan: "Lion River";
Chinese: Yìndù;
Greek: Ινδός Indos) is the longest and most important
river in
Pakistan and one of the most important rivers on the
Indian subcontinent and has given the country
India its name. Originating in the
Tibetan plateau in the vicinity of
Lake Mansarovar, the river runs a course through
Ladakh district in
Kashmir and
Northern Areas, flowing through the
North in a southerly direction along the entire length of country, to merge into the
Arabian Sea near Pakistan's port city
Karachi. The total length of the river is 3200 kilometres (2000 miles). The river has a total drainage area exceeding 1,165,000 square kilometres (450,000 square miles). The river's estimated annual flow stands at around 207 cubic kilometres. Beginning at the heights of the world with
glaciers, the river feeds the
ecosystem of temperate forests,
plains and arid countryside. Together with the rivers
Chenab,
Ravi,
Sutlej,
Jhelum,
Beas and the extinct
Sarasvati River, the Indus forms the
Sapta Sindhu ("Seven Rivers")
delta in the
Sindh province of Pakistan. It has 20 major tributaries.
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