90 per cent of India's river discharges their water into the Bay of Bengal and rest are in the Arabian Sea. The drainage systems flowing into the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal are separated by a water divide extending approximately along the Western Ghats, Aravalli and Yamuna Sutlej divide. Here, we are giving the list of Major Rivers of India for general awareness.
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List of Major Rivers of India
| Name | Source | Fall into |
| Combined Sources | Bay of Bengal | |
| Satluj | Lake Rakshastal in Tibet | Chenab |
| Glacier near Bokhar Chu in the Tibetan region of the Kailash Mountain range | Arabian Sea | |
| Ravi | Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh | Chenab |
| Beas | Beas Kund, Himalayas, Himachal Pradesh | Satluj |
| Jhelum | Verinag Spring (Pir Panjal Range) | Chenab |
| Yamuna | Yamunotri, Champasar Glacier | Ganga |
| Chambal | Singar Chouri (Mhow in Indore District, Madhya Pradesh) | Yamuna |
| Ghagra | Mapchachungo Glacier, Tibet, China | Ganga |
| Kosi | Sun Kosi, Arun and Tamur form Saptakoshi (Tribenighat, Nepal) | Ganga |
| Betwa | Vindhya Range (Kumhra village, Raisen, Madhya Pradesh) | Yamuna |
| Son | Amarkantak | Ganga |
| Near Mansarovar Lake | Bay of Bengal | |
| Narmada | Amarkantak | Gulf of Khambat |
| Tapti | Betul District, Madhya Pradesh | Gulf of Khambat |
| Mahanadi | Sihawa town in Dhamtari district of Chhattisgarh | Bay of Bengal |
| Luni | Pushkar valley of the Aravalli Range, near Ajmer | Rann of kuchchh |
| Ghaggar | Himalayas | Near Fatehabad |
| Sabarmati | Aravalli Range of the Udaipur District of Rajasthan | Gulf of Khambat |
| Krishna | Near Mahabaleswar, Jor village (Satara district, Maharashtra) | Bay of Bengal |
| Godavari | Brahmagiri Mountain, Tryambakeshwar (Nashik, Maharashtra) | Bay of Bengal |
| Kaveri | Talakaveri, Kodagu, Western Ghats, Karnataka | Bay of Bengal |
| Tungabhadra | Koodli (place where the Thunga and Bhadra rivers meet) (Koodli, Bhadravathi, Karnataka) | Krishna River |
In the above list Major Rivers in India will enhance the general knowledge of the readers.
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