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18  INTRODUCING INDIA

Putting Northern Delhi & Environs Civil
India on the Map Lines Chandigarh
Encompassing an area stretching Indus
from the Greater Himalayan Range
in the north to the upper part of the JAMMU & KASHMIR
Deccan Plateau, northern India covers Wular Lake Shayok The New
2,331,318 sq km (900,127 sq miles). It Srinagar Leh Ridge Delhi
is watered by three rivers – the Indus, Jhelum
the Ganges and the Brahmaputra – all Chenab Pang-gong Indira Gandhi Yamuna
Tso
of which originate in the Himalayas. Tso Moriri International
Airport
The vast, densely populated Indo- Jammu Hauz Khas
Gangetic Plains form its heartland. Kullu Siri
Some 705 million people, who speak Amritsar HIMACHAL Mehrauli Fort
10 major languages, live here. The PRADESH Agra
two largest cities are Delhi, the PUNJAB 0 kilometres Tughluqabad
capital, and Kolkata (formerly Shimla Manasarovar 0 miles
Calcutta), both well connected Chandigarh Mussoorie Lake
internationally by air. Dehra Dun UTTARAKHAND CHINA
T ibet Lhasa
HARYANA Yamuna Nainital
PAKISTAN Ganges Tsangpo NORTHEAST
STATES
Bikaner DELHI
See inset map
above NEP AL
UTTAR
PRADESH SIKKIM Thimphu Ziro Dibrugarh
Jaisalmer RAJASTHAN Agra Kathmandu Gangtok BHUTAN Itanagar
Jaipur Lucknow Gorakhpur Raxaul Jorhat
Ajmer Bagdogra Tezpur
Jodhpur Chambal Gwalior Kanpur Dimapur
Guwahati
Luni Allahabad Patna Shillong Kohima
Kota Brahmaputra Imphal
Khajuraho Varanasi BIHAR
Udaipur Silchar
Gaya BANGLADESH
GUJARA T Son JHARKHAND Tamu
Bhuj MADHYA PRADESH Shantiniketan Aizawl
Gandhinagar Dhaka Agartala Kalewa
Kandla Ahmedabad Bhopal
WEST
Jamnagar Jabalpur Ranchi BENGAL
Rajkot Vadodara Indore CHHATTIS- Kolkata MYANMAR
GARH
Narmada INDIA Haldia See inset map
below
Bhavnagar
Tapti
Surat Raipur
Diu Nagpur Durg
Ajanta ODISHA
MAHARASHTRA Mahanadi
Nasik
Ellora Aurangabad Bhubaneswar
Puri
Key
Central city area Mumbai Ahmadnagar Jagdalpur Port Blair
National highway Pune Nizamabad
Karimnagar
Major road
Satara Bidar
International border Warangal
Solapur TELANGANA Visakhapatnam
State border Hyderabad
Disputed border Godavari
KARNA TAKA Krishna ANDHRA The external boundaries of India as shown
Panaji PRADESH on this map are neither correct nor authentic.
For keys to symbols see back flap
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