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The river that gave India its name — from the Tibetan plateau through Ladakh to the Arabian Sea.
The Indus rises near Mount Kailash on the Tibetan plateau and flows northwest through the high, arid valleys of Ladakh — closely shadowing the Indus–Tsangpo suture, the tectonic weld where India collided with Asia — before bending south toward the Arabian Sea.
It is one of the great rivers of the subcontinent and gives India its name; along its lower plains grew the Bronze-Age cities of the Indus Valley (Harappan) civilisation, among the earliest urban cultures on Earth.
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