Sunday, September 13, 2009

Indian geography
physiography

* Covering area of more then the 32 lacs sq. kilometers India is the 7th largest country of the world
* .it has the land frontier of more then 15200 km and coastline of 7516 km for mainland including Andaman and NICOBAR
* The increasing order of length of border of India shared by countries is Afghanistan- Bhutan-Myanmar- Nepal-Pakistan-china-Bangladesh
* Himalayan region was under marine conditions 60 years before today



� Longitudinal extant


� 8.4� to 37.6�


� 3214km

� latitudinal extant


� 68.7�to 97.25


� 2933 km



* With opening of Suez canal in 1969 India�s distance from the has been reduced by 7000 km
* Coastline of India if we exclude the islands is 6100 km
* Indira point is the southernmost point of Indian territory located in great nocobar island
* The southernmost point of Indian mainland is kanyakumari
* Great channel separates India from Indonesia

MAJOR PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS IN INDIA

1. THE GRET MOUNTAINS OF NORTH
2. NORTHN PLAIN it has two subdivisions great plains and thar deserts
3. THE GREAT PENISULER REGION OF INDIA IT HAS THREE SUBDIVISIONS CENTRAL HIGHLANDS PANISULAR PLATUS COASTAL PLAINS
4. ANDEMAN NICOBAR FORM FOURTH DIVISION OF INDIAN PHYSIOGRAPHY
5. AREAWISE THESE REGION CAN BE ARRRANGED AS PENNISULAR PLATEAUS NORTHN MOPUNTAINS GREAT PLAINS CENTRALHIGHLANDS COASTAL PLAINS DESERT ISLAND

GREAT MOUNTAIN WALL OF NORTH

o Trans Himalaya from pamir knots several mountains starts kunlun goes to Tibet karakoram runs in Kashmir and SE
o pamir is connecting link between himalya and mountain ranges of central asia
o Karakoram contains K2 the second highest peak In the world
o Baltoro and siachin are some of the glaciers of this region
o Leantgh wise these glacier are arranged siachin, hisper,biafo,baltoro
o Ladakh and zasker lies in sothrn karakoram
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