Physical Features Of India The Country :India occupies a strategic position in Asia, looking across the seas to Arabia and Africa on the
west and to Burma, Malaysia and the Indonesian Archipelago on the east. Geographically, the Himalayan
ranges keeps India apart from the rest of Asia.
Location Of India :India lies to the
north of the equator between 8'' 4'' and 37° 6'' north latitude and 68° 7'' and 97° 25'' east longitude. It is bounded on the
south west by the Arabian Sea and on the south east by the Bay of Bengal. On the north, north east and north west lie the Himalayan ranges. Kanyakumari constitutes the southern tip of the Indian peninsula where it gets narrower and narrower, loses itself into the Indian Ocean.
Extent :India measures 3214
km from north to south and 2933 km from east to west with a total land area of 3,287,263 sq km. It has a land frontier of 15,200 km and a coastline of 7516.5 km. Andaman and Nicobar islands in the Bay of Bengal and Lakshadweep in the Arabian Sea are parts of India.
Neighbours of India :India shares its political borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan on the west and Bangladesh and Burma on the east. The northern boundary is made up of the Sinkiang province of China, Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan. India is seperated from Sri Lanka by a narrow channel of sea formed by the Palk Strait and the Gulf of Mannar.
Physiographic regions :The mainland comprises seven regions.
(1) Northern Mountains including the Himalayas and the North Eastern mountain ranges
(2) The Indo Gangetic plain
(3) The Desert
(4) Central highlands and Peninsular plateau
(5) East Coast
(6) West Coast
(7) Bordering seas and islands.
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