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beautiful country in the world. The five chief
INDIAN OCEAN
physical divisions of India are as follows :
India : Physical division
1. The Great Northern Mountains
into the western, central and eastern Himalayas.
2. The Great Northern Plains The eastern Himalayas are known as Poorvanchal .
3. The Western Desert Breadth-wise, we can divide the Himalayas into
4. The Southern Peninsula three parallel ranges—the Himadri , the Himachal
and the Shivaliks . The Himadri range, also known
5. The Island Groups as the Greater Himalayas, comprises the northern-
The Great Northern Mountains most range. It has an average height of about
6,000 metres above the sea level. The world’s
The great Northern Mountains separate the Indian
highest peak, Mount Everest (8,848 metres) is
subcontinent from the rest of Asia. This is like a located in this range in Nepal. The other high
great mountain wall formed by the mountain peaks of this range are Kanchenjunga (8,598
chains, namely the Himalayan and the Karakoram
metres), Nanga Parbat (8,126 metres) and Nanda
ranges. This wall is in the shape of an arc and Devi (7,817 metres) which are located in India.
stretches for about 3,600 km. The width of this
The Himadri range is the home to glaciers and
mountain chain varies from 150 km to 400 km.
snow-capped peaks. The glaciers are the rivers of
The Karakoram mountains lie in Kashmir.
snow which melt and form into rivers. The Ganga
originates in the Gangotri glacier and the Yamuna
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in the Yamunotri glacier. The Indus and the
Brahmaputra rivers are also fed by the melting
Kanchenjunga is the highest Himalayan peak in snow.
India and it is the third highest in the world.
The Himachal range lies to the south of the
The word ‘Himalaya’ means the abode of snow . Himadri and is known as the Lesser or Middle
This is a 2,500 km long continuous mountain wall
Himalayas. Its mountains vary from 3,700 metres
on India’s north. Length-wise, we can divide it to 4,500 metres in height. Many of India’s hill
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