The Ganges. MAP SELLER: It’s in the Bay of Bengal ... down the mountains to the flat plains of India. It’s one of the world’s biggest rivers, seven times longer than Britain’s longest ...

The Ganges river in India is more than 2,500km long and has the most populated river basin in the world. Hundreds of millions of people and a huge range of wildlife rely on the river Ganges. But ...

Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission has captured stunning images of the Mahakumbh, the world's largest human gathering, held in ...

Pilgrims come from across India and around the world to bathe in the water where the two sacred rivers meet. Such mass bathing in the Ganges has been recorded for more than 2,500 years.