India is the seventh largest country in the world in terms of area. It is the biggest country in Southern Asia, which covers an area about one-third the size of Europe. The Indian subcontinent is surrounded by three different water bodies and is easily recognisable on the world map. The m...
Throughout the country, India has a highly uneven pattern of the population distribution. Uttar Pradesh has the highest population followed by Maharashtra, Bihar, and West Bengal. Terrain, climate, and availability of water largely determine the pattern of the population distribution. However, socio-...
The Assam region then onwards served as a great faunal gateway, through which the Indo-Chinese elements of the Oriental fauna and also that of Palaearctic could spread to India and colonize the country. In fact, the history of the Post-Tertiary faunal dispersal in India is peculiar, in as ...
Build your own interactive map of India from a combination of Political features and Physical features. Use the map for Study or to take a customizable quiz. This app is about an interactive map about Indian geography. Can study the different features of the country. Also a new Quiz mode to...
India, legitimately the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the 7th-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.21 billion people (2011 census), and the most populous democracy in the world. India is surrounded by the Indian Ocean on...
deforestation; soil erosion; overgrazing; desertification; air pollution from industrial effluents and vehicle emissions; water pollution from raw sewage and runoff of agricultural pesticides; tap water is not potable throughout the country; huge and rapidly growing population is overstraining natural reso...
India has some the world's highest mountains and a large high-lying area in the southern part of the country, the Deccan plateau. Thehighest mountain in India is the Kangchenjunga. This is also the third highest mountain in the world with 8,586 m/28,169 ft. ...
Located in East Asia, west coast of the Pacific Ocean, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has a land area of about 9.6 million square kilometers, and is the third-largest country in the world, next to Russia and Canada. From north to south, China stretches from the center of the ...
Indus river mouth (shared with China [s] and India) - 3,610 km; Sutlej river mouth (shared with China [s] and India) - 1,372 km; Chenab river mouth (shared with India [s]) - 1,086 kmnote –[s] after country name indicates river source; [m] after country name indicates river...
The geography of India is diverse and can be divided into three main regions. The first is the rugged, mountainous Himalayan region in the northern part of the country, while the second is called the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It is in this region that most of India's large-scale agriculture ta...