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Size: Total land area in India - 2,973,190 square
kilometers. Total area, including territorial
seas, claimed is 3,287,590 square kilometers.
Topography of India: Three main
geological regions-
Indo-Gangetic Plain and Himalayas, collectively
known as North India; and Peninsula or South
India. Ten physiological regions: Indo-Gangetic
Plain, northern mountains of the Himalayas,
Central Highlands, Deccan or Peninsular Plateau,
East Coast (Coromandel Coast in south), West
Coast (Konkan, Kankara, and Malabar coasts),
Great Indian Desert (known as Thar Desert in
Pakistan) and Rann of Kutch, valley of the
Brahmaputra River in Assam, northeastern hill
ranges surrounding Assam Valley, and islands of
Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal. |
