Prelims ask
Tibet, China–India–Pakistan, Arabian Sea, antecedent gorge.
Asia · Himalayan world system, not an India drainage note
Indus
A major Himalayan-system river. Not a world top-five length river.
- Source
- Tibetan plateau near Lake Manasarovar (Sengge Zangbo). Not in the Indian plains and not on K2.
- Countries
- China, India and Pakistan.
- Direction
- Northwest through the gorge, then south through Pakistan.
- Mouth
- Arabian Sea.
- Length
- About 3,180 km.
- Major tributaries
- Shyok, Gilgit, Kabul, and the Panjnad rivers: Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, Sutlej.
- Delta or estuary
- Delta in Pakistan.
- Basin
- Antecedent course across the Himalayan–Karakoram syntax. Indus Waters Treaty is the exam fact. Stop there.
- One exam fact
- Included only as a Himalayan world river: a Tibetan source, a gorge through the mountains, a delta on the Arabian Sea.
Mains use
World point only: a river older than the uplift it cuts, shared by three countries.