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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 January 2025. Arid region in India and Pakistan Thar Desert Great Indian Desert Thar Desert in Rajasthan, India Map of the Thar Desert ecoregion Ecology Realm Indomalayan Biome Deserts and xeric shrublands Borders Northwestern thorn scrub forests Rann of Kutch seasonal salt marsh Geography Area ...
A map of the Indian Sunderbans in West Bengal Pichavaram Mangroves, Tamil Nadu. India's wetland ecosystem is widely distributed from the cold and arid located in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, and those with the wet and humid climate of peninsular India. Most of the wetlands are directly or indirectly linked to river networks.
An enlargeable map of the cities of India. The following outline is provided as an overview of, and topical guide to, India: . The seventh-largest country by area, India is located on the Indian subcontinent in South Asia.
India, officially the Republic of India, [j] [20] is a country in South Asia.It is the most populous country in the world and the seventh-largest by area.Bounded by High-mountain Asia on the northeast, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, the Indian Ocean on the south, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the northwest; [k] China, Nepal, and Bhutan to ...
Marwar (also called Jodhpur region) is a region of western Rajasthan state in North Western India. It lies partly in the Thar Desert. The word 'maru' is Sanskrit for desert. The word "wad" literally means fence in Rajasthani languages. English translation of the word 'Marwar' is the region protected by desert. [1]
Joseph E. Schwartzberg (2008) proposes that the Bronze Age Indus Valley civilization (c. 2500–1900 BCE) may have known "cartographic activity" based on a number of excavated surveying instruments and measuring rods and that the use of large scale constructional plans, cosmological drawings, and cartographic material was known in India with some regularity since the Vedic period (1st ...
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The Indian subcontinent [note 7] is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas. Geographically, it spans the countries of Bangladesh , Bhutan , India , [ note 1 ] Maldives , [ note 2 ] Nepal , [ note 3 ] Pakistan , [ note 4 ] and Sri Lanka .