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4 days ago · Danube is an Old European river name derived from the Celtic ' danu ' or ' don ' [17] (both Celtic gods), which itself derived from the Proto-Indo-European *deh₂nu. Other European river names from the same root include the Dunaj, Dzvina/ Daugava, Don, Donets, Dnieper, Dniestr, Dysna and Tana/Deatnu. In Rigvedic Sanskrit, danu (दनु ...
5 days ago · India - Rivers, Ganges, Brahmaputra: The Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, together with their tributaries, drain about one-third of India. The Ganges (Ganga), considered sacred by the country’s Hindu population, is 1,560 miles (2,510 km) long. Although its deltaic portion lies mostly in Bangladesh, the course of the Ganges within India is longer than that of any of the country’s other rivers ...
2 days ago · At 475,442 square kilometres (183,569 sq mi), Cameroon is the world's 53rd-largest country. [82] The country is located in Central Africa, on the Bight of Bonny, part of the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean. [83] Cameroon lies between latitudes 1° and 13°N, and longitudes 8° and 17°E.
2 days ago · The Ganges Delta, formed mainly by the large, sediment-laden flows of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, is the world's largest delta, at about 64,000 km 2 (25,000 sq mi). It stretches 400 km (250 mi) along the Bay of Bengal.
6 days ago · It was 44-34 million years ago, during the mid-late Eocene epoch, when parts of Antarctica were last ice-free. This left room for systems of rivers that brought sediments from the mountain range that spans the continent all the way to the Amundsen Sea. This suggests there were no inland seas in between the two to hold onto those sediments.
4 days ago · Venezuela - Rivers, Lakes, Coastline: The Venezuelan drainage network consists almost entirely of two watersheds, the largest emptying into the Atlantic Ocean and the other into the Caribbean Sea. The Orinoco River and its main tributary, the Caroní, carry approximately four-fifths of the country’s surface runoff and occupy a basin of some 366,000 square miles (948,000 square km). The ...
5 days ago · With such a rich youth sports culture, it's no surprise that the Main Line region has several athletes who will compete at the Paris Olympics. The opening ceremony for the 2024 Paris Olympics begins Friday at 1:30 p.m. For the following two weeks, we’ll all be glued to our TVs waiting for Team USA to bring home the gold.
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