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India

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and Pakistan

Pakistan

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for a "tongue" or tract of land lying between two confluent rivers.

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A Doab (Persian

Persian language

India

Pakistan

The Doab, Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh , [often referred to as U.P.] is a States and territories of India located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 190 million people,...
, India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....

The Doab, unqualified by the names of any rivers, designates the flat alluvial tract between the Ganges and Yamuna
Yamuna

The Yamuna is a major tributary river of the Ganges in northern India. With a total length of around , it is the largest tributary of the Ganges....
rivers in western and southwestern Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh , [often referred to as U.P.] is a States and territories of India located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 190 million people,...
state in India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
, extending from the Shiwalik range to the two rivers' confluence at Allahabad
Allahabad

Allahabad also known as Prayag is a city in the north Indian States and territories of India of Uttar Pradesh, situated at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers....
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The Doab has an area of about 23,360 square miles (60,500 square km); it is approximately in length and in width.

The Doab figures prominently in history and myths of Vedic period
Vedic period

The Vedic Period is the period during which the Vedas, the oldest sacred texts of Indo-Iranians, were being composed. Scholars place the Vedic period in the 2nd millennium BCE and 1st millennium BCE millennia BCE continuing up to the 6th century BCE based on literary evidence....
; the epic Mahabharata
Mahabharata

The is one of the two major Sanskrit Indian epic poetrys of History of India, the other being the '. The epic is part of the Hindu itihasa , and forms an important part of Hindu mythology....
, for example, is set in the Doab, around the city of Hastinapur.

The following districts form part of the Doab:

Upper Doab: Dehradun
Dehradun

, is the capital city of the States and territories of India of Uttarakhand in India, and the headquarters of Dehradun District.It is located in the Doon valley, 230 kilometers north of India's capital New Delhi and the Delhi metropolitan area....
, Haridwar
Haridwar

Haridwar ) is a holy city and municipal board in the Haridwar District of Uttarakhand, India. In Hindi, Haridwar stands for Dwar of Hari or Gateway to God, 'Hari' meaning god and 'dwar' meaning gate....
, Rishikesh, Saharanpur
Saharanpur

Saharanpur is a city and a Municipal Corporation in the States and territories of India of Uttar Pradesh in northern India. It is the public administration headquarters of Saharanpur District as well as Saharanpur Division....
, Muzaffarnagar
Muzaffarnagar

Muzaffarnagar is a city and a municipal board & a district in the Indian States and territories of India of Uttar Pradesh. It is the headquarters of the Muzaffarnagar district....
, Meerut
Meerut

Meerut is a metropolitan city and a municipal corporation in Meerut district in the Indian States and territories of India of Uttar Pradesh. It is the 16th largest metropolitan area in India and the 25th largest city in India....
, Delhi
Delhi

Delhi , sometimes referred to as Dilli , is the List of most populous cities in India metropolis in India and, with over 11 million residents, the List of metropolitan areas by population....
, Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad is an industrial city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is located about 1.5 km east of the Hindon River at latitude 28? 40' north and longitude 77? 25' east....
, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Bulandshahar
Bulandshahar

Bulandshahr is a city and a municipal board in Bulandshahr district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Bulandshahr District....

Central or Middle Doab: Mathura
Mathura

Mathura is a holy city in the Indian States and territories of India of Uttar Pradesh. It is located approximately 50 km north of Agra, and 150 km south of Delhi; about twenty kilometers from holy Vrindavana....
, Aligarh
Aligarh

Aligarh is a city in Aligarh District in the Northern India Indian States and territories of India of Uttar Pradesh. The city is located about 90 miles southeast of New Delhi....
, Etah
Etah

Etah is a town which is also the district headquarters of Etah district of Uttar Pradesh States and territories of India, India....
, Agra
Agra

Agra is a city on the banks of the Yamuna in the northern States and territories of India of Uttar Pradesh, India. It finds mention in the epic Mahabharata when it was called Agrabana, or Paradise....
, ,

Lower Doab: Mainpuri
Mainpuri

Mainpuri is a city and a municipal board in Mainpuri district in the Indian States and territories of India of Uttar Pradesh. It is the administrative headquarters of the Mainpuri district and is situated to the north-east of Agra....
, Etawah
Etawah

Etawah is a city on the Yamuna River in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. It is the administrative headquarters of Etawah District. The city was an important center for the Revolt of 1857 ....
, Farrukhabad
Farrukhabad

Farrukhabad one of three tehsils in the Farrukhabad District of the State of Uttar Pradesh in north India India. The other two tehsils are Kaimganj and Amritpur....
, Kanpur
Kanpur

Kanpur is the seventh most populous city in India and the most populous within the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, and in terms of area, Kanpur is the fifth largest city in India .It is also known as the Manchester of Asia....
, Fatehpur, Kaushambi and Allahabad
Allahabad

Allahabad also known as Prayag is a city in the north Indian States and territories of India of Uttar Pradesh, situated at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers....
.

The Punjab
Punjab region

Punjab , also Panjab , is a region straddling the border between India and Pakistan. The "Five Rivers" are Beas River, Ravi River, Sutlej, Chenab and Jhelum River; all these are tributaries of the Indus river, Jhelum being the biggest one....
Doabs, Pakistan
Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
, India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....