16 INDIA - PHYSICAL FEATURES
MODULE - 6The PHYSICAL settingof IndiaNotes 1India - PHYSICAL FeaturesGEOGRAPHYHistorically, INDIA is an ancient country, known as Bharatvarsh. It is surroundedby the sea on three sides, separated from the rest of Asia by a lofty mountainchain. Hence, it has become an independent entity called the Indian size, INDIA is the seventh largest country in the world. It is a vast country char-acterized by great diversity in its PHYSICAL feature. Therefore, it is necessary toacquire some knowledge about principal PHYSICAL FEATURES . The students shouldmake themselves familiar with the main aspects of its geography, the broad factsregarding the external relief, mountain systems, plateaus, plains, drainage systems,glaciers, volcanoes studying this lesson, you will be able to : describe the location of INDIA in terms of latitude and longitude; describe with the help of a map and a glo
and the hills of Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and Meghalaya. They are divided into three groups. They are (i) The Himalayas (ii) The Trans-Himalayas (iii) Purvachal or the hills of the North-East. (i) The Himalayas This is the highest mountain range of the world. It extends in the shape of an arc for
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