India Geography

India spans an enormous range of terrain, from the Himalayas along its northern border down through the fertile Indo-Gangetic Plain that supports much of the country's population, to the Deccan Plateau covering most of the peninsula's interior.

The Thar Desert stretches across Rajasthan, while the country's long coastlines meet at the tropical southern tip near Kanyakumari.

Ladakh, in the far north, sits within the Himalayas at extreme altitude, more geologically similar to Tibet than the rest of India, while the northeastern states are dominated by dense hills and rainforest bordering Myanmar, Bangladesh, and China.