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Question
Where do the Ganga and the Brahmaputra join and where do they drain?
Solution
The Ganga and the Brahmaputra join in Bangladesh where they flow as one river — the Padma — which drains into the Bay of Bengal. Together these rivers have built the largest delta in the world the Sundarbans.
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