Geography of India

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The geography of India is extremely diverse, with landscape ranging from snow-capped mountain ranges to deserts, plains, hills and plateaus. Climate ranges from equatorial in the far south, to tundra in the Himalayan altitudes. India takes up most of the Indian subcontinent and has a vast coastline of over 4300 miles. The western coastline of India is bound by Arabian Sea and in the east by The Bay of Bengal. India is bordered by Pakistan, The Peoples Republic of China, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, and Afghanistan. The seven geographic regions India is divided into are the northern mountains including the Himalayas and the northeast mountain ranges, Indo-Gangetic plains, Thar Desert, Central highlands and Deccan plateau, East coast, West coast and bordering season islands. There are eight main mountain ranges in India; the Himalayas, the Shiwalik, Patkai, Vindhya, Satpura, Aravali, Sahyadri, and Eastern Ghats.

Sumarized from Wikipedia Geography of India, (version 21:13, 13 August 2005).