Portal:Geography
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The geography of India is extremely diverse, with landscape ranging from snow-capped mountain ranges to deserts, plains, rainforests, hills and plateaus. India comprises most of the Indian subcontinent situated on the Indian Plate, the northerly portion of the Indo-Australian Plate. Having a coastline of over 7,000 km (4,300 miles), most of India lies on a peninsula in southern Asia that protrudes into the Indian Ocean. India is bounded in the southwest by the Arabian Sea and in the southeast by the Bay of Bengal. The fertile Indo-Gangetic Plain occupies most of northern, central and eastern India, while the Deccan Plateau occupies most of southern India. To the west of the country is the Thar Desert, which consists of a mix of rocky and sandy desert. India's east and northeastern border consists of the high Himalayas range. The highest point in India is disputed due to a territorial dispute with Pakistan; according to India's claim, the highest point (located in the disputed Kashmir region) is K2, at 8,611 m (28,251 feet). The highest point in undisputed Indian territory is Kangchenjunga, at 8,598 m (28,208 feet). Climate ranges from equatorial in the far south, to tundra in the Himalayan altitudes. | |
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The Deccan Plateau, also known as "The Great Country", is a vast elevated tableland area with widely varying terrain features making up the majority of the southern India located between three ranges and extending over eight states. It's uplands make up an interior triangle nested within the familiar downward pointing triangle of the Indian sub-continents coastline. It is technically a vast plateau with a wide range of habitats, encompassing most of Central and Southern India. It is bounded in the west by the Western Ghats and in the east by the Eastern Ghats which each rise from their respective nearby coastal plains and nearly meet at the southern tip of India. These two formations form the southward pointing vertex of a triangle which encompasses the plateau with the roughly West-south-west to East-north-east running Vindhya Range forming the third side of the canine-tooth shaped triangular region. The Vindhya's separate the tableland from the heavily populated riverine plains of Northern India. It makes up large areas of the states of Maharashtra, Karnataka and parts of Andhra Pradesh south of the Vindhya range and has an elevation which ranges from 100 metres in the north to 1000 metres in the south. This region is one of the most stable land masses of the world. For thousands of years the Deccan forests have harvested the rainfall to form the catchment areas of mighty rivers. | |
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