The Geography of India

The Himalayan mountain range to the North, the Indus River to the west and the Ganges River to the east, form a physical barrier that seperates the Indian sub-continent from the rest of Asia.

Northern India actually shares a border with Pakistan on it's western side while bordering on China, Nepal and Bhutan through the Himalayas. To the east it shares borders with Bangladesh and Myanmar. Bangladesh in fact almost but not quite seperates the North East States from the rest of India as it extends northward from the Bay of Bengal up towards Bhuton.

As India tapers southward, it has the western coast flanked by the arabian Sea, the east coast by the Bay of Bengal and finally a southern tip that dips it's toe into the Indian Ocean. Lying off this southern tip to the east is the the tropical island of Sri Lanka and to the west can be found The Maldives.

The area of Northern India is somewhere in excess of 900,000 square miles and Southern India covers some 350,000 square miles. Southern India alone is greater in size than France and Germany put together. The total population of India is currently in excess of 1000 million people, puttting it on a global scale, second only to China.

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