Cities
Among the largest cities of the Indo-Gangetic plain are Ahmedabad, Ludhiana, Amritsar, Chandigarh, Delhi, Dibrugarh, Guwahati, Jorhat, Kanpur, Lakhimpur, Lucknow, Allahabad, Varanasi, Patna,in India, Dhaka in Bangladesh, Lahore, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi-Islamabad, Multan, Hyderabad and Karachi in Pakistan. In this region, it is hard to define where one megalopolis begins and one ends.
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