This is a fact that rivers make an important role on Indian lives. Whether its agriculture by making irrigated area, horticulture or any type of industries, there is a influence of rivers in Indian economy. Also Hindu religious people believes rivers such as ganga has a holiness. Thats why water of ganga like river is used on any worship. Dams are also built on river such as Hirakud dam is built on river Mahanadi, Bhakra-Nangal dam is built on Suitlej river etc.
Maximum rivers originate from Himalayan glaciers. India’s longest river Ganga originate from Gangotri glacier.
Many Indian cities are built near rivers for its immense features.
Today we have listed an alphabeticaly ordered list of major Indian cities which located near river bank. From ancient India to modern many cities built on river. Patna(ancient name Pataliputra)is a historical city built near river bank of Ganges. The listed cities may be any Indian state capital and rivers may be longest or deepest. Which city on which river? This type of one or two questions from this list, frequently asked in any competitive exams like railway, psc, ssc, tet, banking etc. The list contains top 42 rivers and cities with belonging states in India
List of Top Indian cities on River
Here we are listing 42 major Indian cities located on eastflowing or westflowing rivers
Cities(States) RiverBank
Agra(Up) Yamuna
Ahmedabad(Gujarat) Sabarmati
Allahabad(Up) Ganga,Yamuna, Saraswati
Amritsar(Punjab)
Beas
Amarkantak(MP) Narmada
Ayodhya(Up) Saryu
Aluva(Kerala) Periyar
Baranasi(Up) Ganges
Badrinath(Up) Gangotri
Bengaluru(Karnataka)Vrishabhavathi
Bhagalpur(Bihar) Ganges
Buxar(Bihar) Ganges
Chennai(Capital,TN) Cooum,Adyar
Chandigarh(Haryana,Pnj) Ghaggar
Cuttack(capital,Odisha) Mahanadi
Delhi(Delhi) Yamuna
Dibrugarh(Assam) Brahmaputra
Gangtok(capital,Sikkim) Teesta
Gandhinagar(Gujarat) Sabarmati
Guwahati(capital,Assam) Brahmaputra
Howrah(WestBengal) Hooghly
Haridwar(Uttaranchal) Ganges
Hyderabad(capital,AP) Musi
Jamshedpur(Jharkhand) Subarnarekha
Jaipur(Rajasthan) Dravyavati
Kolkata(WB) Hooghly
Kanpur(UP) Ganges
Kota(Rajasthan) Chambal
Lucknow(capital,UP) Gomati
Ludhiana(Punjab) Satadru
Leh(J&K) Indus/Sindh
Moradabad(UP) Ramganga
Mathura(UP) Yamuna
Mumbai(Maharashtra) Mithi
Nasik(Maharashtra) Godavari
Patna(capital,Bihar) Ganges,Sone
Rajahmundry Godavari
Shimla(capital,HP) Sutlej
Surat(Gujarat) Tapti
Srinagar(capital,J&K) Bipasha
Tiruchirapalli(TN) Kaveri
Ujjain(MP) Shipra
Vijaywada(AP) Krishna
Varanasi(UP) Ganges
The abbreviations have been broaden here
*UP – Uttar Pradesh
*MP- Madhya Pradesh
*AP- Andhra Pradesh
*TN- Tamilnadu
*J&K- Jammu & Kashmir
*HP- Himachal Pradesh
*WB- West Bengal
