In the blog we will look upon the important cities that are on the river bank. In the static general knowledge section or in geography. The questions are asked on rivers or in which river banks a city is located. This type of the question comes in SSC, Railway, Banking and UPSC exams.
River is an important source of water, water transportation, agriculture, livelihood and it supplies the water to the factories which are the backbones for urban development. It plays an important role for the development and prosperity of the cities. So if you look around the world, the major developed cities are situated on the bank of the rivers.
India cities on the river bank
| City | River | State |
|---|---|---|
| Agra | Yamuna | Uttar Pradesh |
| Ahmedabad | Sabarmati | Gujarat |
| Amaravati | Krishna | Andhra Pradesh |
| Allahabad | At the confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna | Uttar Pradesh |
| Ayodhya | Saryu | Uttar Pradesh |
| Badrinath | Alaknanda | Uttarakhand |
| Bhagalpur | Ganga | Bihar |
| Bareilly | Ramganga | Uttar Pradesh |
| Brahmapur | Rushikulya | Odisha |
| Bangalore | Vrishabhavathi | Karnataka |
| Cuttack | Mahanadi | Odisha |
| Coimbatore | Noyyal | Tamil Nadu |
| Delhi | Yamuna | New Delhi |
| Dibrugarh | Brahmaputra | Assam |
| Ferozpur | Satluj | Punjab |
| Gaya | Falgu (Neeranjana) | Bihar |
| Gorakhpur | Rapti | Uttar Pradesh |
| Guwahati | Brahmaputra | Assam |
| Haridwar | Ganga | Uttarakhand |
| Hyderabad | Musi | Telangana |
| Jabalpur | Narmada | Madhya Pradesh |
| Jamshedpur | Subarnarekha | Jharkhand |
| Jaunpur | Gomti | Uttar Pradesh |
| Kanpur | Ganga | Uttar Pradesh |
| Kolkata | Hooghly | West Bengal |
| Kota | Chambal | Rajasthan |
| Kurnool | Tungabhadra | Andhra Pradesh |
| Lucknow | Gomti | Uttar Pradesh |
| Ludhiana | Satluj | Punjab |
| Madurai | Vaigai | Tamil Nadu |
| Mathura | Yamuna | Uttar Pradesh |
| Nasik | Godavari | Maharashtra |
| Nellore | Pennar | Andhra Pradesh |
| Panji | Mandavi | Goa |
| Patna | Ganga | Bihar |
| Pune | Mula, Mutha | Maharashtra |
| Rajahmundry | Godavari | Andhra Pradesh |
| Rairangpur | Khadkhai | Odisha |
| Rangpo | Teesta | Sikkim |
| Rourkela | Brahmani | Odisha |
| Sambalpur | Mahanadi | Odisha |
| Shimoga | Tunga | Karnataka |
| Srinagar | Jhelum | Jammu & Kashmir |
| Surat | Tapti | Gujarat |
| Tiruchirapalli | Cauvery | Tamil Nadu |
| Ujjain | Shipra | Madhya Pradesh |
| Varanasi | Ganga | Uttar Pradesh |
| Vadodara | Vishwamitri | Gujarat |
| Vijayawada | Krishna | Andhra Pradesh |
Important cities of world on the river bank
| City | River | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Sydney | Darling | Australia |
| Budapest | Danube | Hungary |
| Cairo | Nile | Egypt |
| New Orleans | Mississippi | USA |
| Washington DC | Potomac | USA |
| New York | Hudson | USA |
| Quebec | Saint Lawrence | Canada |
| Warsaw | Vistula | Poland |
| Vienna | Danube | Austria |
| Baghdad | Tigris | Iraq |
| Rome | Tiber | Italy |
| Paris | Seine | France |
| London | Thames | England |
| Moscow | Moskva | Russia |
| Shanghai | Yangtze | China |
| Berlin | Spree and Havel | Germany |
| Montreal | Confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa | Canada |
| Cologne | Rhine | Germany |
| Basra | Shatt-al-Arab | Iraq |
| Lahore | Ravi | Pakistan |
| Karachi | Indus | Pakistan |
| Yangon | Convergence of the Yangon and Bago Rivers | Myanmar |
| Khartoum | Confluence of the White Nile and the Blue Nile | Sudan |
FAQ: Rivers on the bank of cities of India
Patna, Hajipur, Allahabad, Kanpur, Varanasi, Kannauj, Rishikes, Haridwar, Mirzapur, Farrukhabad are the most important cities located on the bank of river Ganga. Ganga river flows through the five India states Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Jharkhand. Devprayag, Rishikesh, Haridwar, Garhmuketeshwar, Allahabad and Varanasi are some of the holy places on its banks which attract people from all over the country and abroad.
The cities of Baghpat, New Delhi, Noida, Mathura, Agra, Firozabad, Etawah, Kalpi, Hamirpur, and Prayagraj lie on its banks. At Etawah, it meets another important tributary, Chambal, followed by a host of tributaries further down, including Sindh, the Betwa, and Ken.
Tiruchirapalli and Erode are the most important cities of Tamil Nadu situated on the bank of Kaveri river.
Ganga river flows through 27 districts covering 1,140km. The important districts that it drains are Farrukhabad, Kannauj, Kanpur, Chandauli, Prayagraj, Kaushambi, Fatehpur, Pratapgarh, Bhadohi, Mirzapur, Ghazipur, Varanasi and Ballia.
At Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh the Ganga confluence with Yamuna.