page_title: Doab
section_title: The Doab
hierarchical_section_title: Doab / The Doab
caption_attribution_description: English: Map from personal copy of Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 25 (Atlas) Oxford University Press, 1908. Re-labeled (to show the Doab in the United Provinces, cropped, and resized by Fowler&amp;fowler«Talk» 04:39, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
context_page_description: Doab is a term used in South Asia for the tract of land lying between two converging, or confluent, rivers. It is similar to an interfluve. In the Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, R. S. McGregor defines it as from Persian do-āb "a region lying between and reaching to the confluence of two rivers."
context_section_description: The Doab designates the flat alluvial tract between the Ganges and Yamuna rivers extending from the Sivalik Hills to the two rivers' confluence at Allahabad. It is also called as Ganges-Yamuna Doab or Ganga Doab. The region has an area of about 23,360 square miles (60,500 square km); it is approximately 500 miles (805 km) in length and 60 miles (97 km) in width.
  The British raj divided the Doab into three administrative districts, viz., Upper Doab (Meerut), Middle Doab (Agra) and Lower Doab (Allahabad).
  Currently the following states and districts form part of The Doab:
caption: The Doab, United Provinces, 1908 map
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