Tag: geography

NAME	AREA	LOCATION
Tata Iron and Steel Corporation (TISCO)	Jamshedpur, Jharkhand	EAST
Visvesvaraya
Iron and Steel Plant	Bhadravati,
Karnataka	SOUTH
Durgapur
Steel Plant	Durgapur,West
Bengal	EAST
Bokaro Steel Plant	Jharkhand	EAST
Chandrapur Ferro Alloy Plant	Chandrapur, Maharashtra	CENTRAL
IISCO Steel Plant	Asansol, West Bengal	EAST
Salem Steel Plant	Tamil Nadu	SOUTH
Rourkela Steel Plant	Odisha	EAST
Vijayanagar Steel Plant	Hospet, BellaryKarnataka	SOUTH
Visakhapatnam Steel Plant	Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh	EAST

From the above table it is clear that most of the steel plants are present towards the eastern India.

The Missouri River is the longest river in North America. Rising in the Rocky Mountains of western Montana, the Missouri flows east and south for $2,341$ miles$ (3,767 km)$ before entering the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri.

U-Seymight Falls is the highest waterfall in U-Seymight National Park, dropping a total of 2,425 feet from the top of the upper fall to the base of the lower fall. Located in the Sierra Nevada of California, it is a major attraction in the park, especially in late spring when the water flow is at its peak

The Northern Indian plains lie to the south of the Himalayas. They are generally level and flat. These are formed by the alluvial deposits laid down by the rivers– the Indus, the Ganga, the Brahmaputra and their tributaries. To the south of northern plains lies the Peninsular plateau.

The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, bounded on the west and northwest by India, on the north by Bangladesh, and on the east by Myanmar and the Andaman Islands of India and Myanmar and the Nicobar Islands of India.

• The Ganges begins at the confluence of the Bhagirathi and Alaknanda rivers. The Bhagirathi is considered to be the source in Hindu culture and mythology, although the Alaknanda is longer. 
  
• The Bhāgīrathī is a turbulent Himalayan river in the Indian states of Uttarakhand, and one of the two headstreams of the Ganges, the major river of Northern India and the holy river of Hinduism.
  
• In Hindu mythology and culture, the Bhagirathi is considered the source stream of the Ganges.
  

• The Yamuna Sanskrit and Hindi, sometimes called Jamuna is the longest and the second largest tributary river of the Ganges (Ganga) in northern India.
  
• Originating from the Yamunotri  Glacier at a height of 6,387 metres on the south western slopes of Banderpooch peaks in the uppermost region of the Loower Himalayas in Uttarakhand .
  
• it travels a total length of 1,376 kilometres (855 mi) and has a drainage system of 366,223 square kilometres (141,399 sq mi), 40.2% of the entire Ganges Basin.
  
•  It is the longest river in India which does not directly flow to the sea.