India, the seventh largest country in the world, occupies 2.4% of the world's land area. The geographical features of the country is extremely diverse. It has landscape of snow-capped mountain ranges, deserts, plains, hills and plateaus. The climate also has a diversification. It is equatorial in the extreme south and tundra in the Himalayan altitudes.
India is often said to be a continent and not a country. It has a diverse geographical entity. Separated from Asia by the Himalayas in the north and bordered by the seas on other sides, it has a unity of its own which has been preserved and nurtured in the Indian way of life. |
