India is a large, triangular-shaped country in southern Asia, buttressed by the long sweep of the Himalaya in the north and protruding into the Indian Ocean in the south. It is bordered by Pakistan to the northwest, China, Nepal and Bhutan to the north, and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. India covers a land area of some 1,281,930 square miles (3,287,000 square kilometers), though disputed borders with Pakistan and China make this figure somewhat arbitrary; India is the seventh largest country in the world. Northern India contains the snow-bound peaks and deep valleys of the Himalaya and the vast Gangetic Plain, which separates the Himalayan region from the southern peninsula and stretches from the Arabian Sea to the Bay of Bengal. South of the plains, the land rises up into a triangular-shaped plateau known as the Deccan, ranging in altitude from 985 to 2950 feet (300 to 900 meters). The plateau is bordered by the eastern and western ghats, ranges of hills that run parallel to India’s coasts and separate the fertile coastal strips from the interior. It has been said that India is less a country than a continent, and it holds as many variations in religion, language, customs, art and cuisine as it does in topography. For the traveler, this cultural feast is India’s great strength.
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