← 🗺️ Geography · usually met in Std 6-12
Mountains in the north, plains below them, a plateau in the centre, coasts on both sides, a desert to the west — and almost every climate on Earth.
The Himalaya block cold air from the north and force the monsoon to drop its rain, which is why northern India is not a desert at its latitude. South of them the Indo-Gangetic plain is deep, flat alluvium and supports a very large share of the population. The Deccan plateau occupies most of the peninsula, bounded by the Western and Eastern Ghats. The Thar desert lies to the west, and the north-east is among the wettest regions on the planet.
Rivers divide into Himalayan — Indus, Ganga, Brahmaputra, fed by snow and rain, flowing all year — and peninsular, such as the Godavari, Krishna, Kaveri and Narmada, which depend on the monsoon and shrink in summer. India has a long coastline and a large exclusive economic zone, with the Andaman and Nicobar and the Lakshadweep island groups.
Want to see it moving? Search YouTube for “The geography of India” ↗ — we send you to the search rather than to one video, because a link to one video eventually rots.
This entry was written for Star Student in our own words — it is a summary, not a source. Here is where the people who actually hold these facts keep them. Go and check.
Your own textbook ↗Balbharati publishes the textbooks free to read online. Your chapter is the thing to check first — an encyclopedia is a summary, and the syllabus is the syllabus. India Meteorological Department ↗The monsoon, rainfall and cyclone warnings, from the department that issues them.Last gone through: 1 October 2026 · How these entries are written
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