The document summarizes the major physical features of India's geography. It describes four main physical divisions: the Northern Mountains including the Himalayas, the Northern Plains along the Ganges River, the Peninsular Plateaus in southern India, and the Coastal Plains and Islands along the coasts. It provides details on the locations and characteristics of each division.

1. Geography
Physical Features of
India
Presented By :
Meera &
Hetashvi
6.A

2. • The Northern Mountains
• The Northern Plains
• The Peninsular Plateaus
• The Coastal Plains & Islands

3. The Northern Plains
The Northern Fertile Plain lies to the south of
Himalayan Region. It is also called the Gangetic
Plain. It is a vast plain and level land between the
Himalayas in the North and Deccan Plateau in
the South. From Punjab in the West to Assam in
the East, this plain is about 2400 km long and its
width varies from 150 km in the East to about
300 km in the West. It includes the States of
Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West
Bengal, some parts of Assam and the Union
Territory of Delhi.
The soil of this plain is built of the sediments
brought down by the rivers from Himalayas.

4. The Northern Mountains
The Northern mountains include the
Himalaya and the Karakoram mountain
ranges. The Himalaya is the highest
mountain range in the world. It stretches
from Jammu Kashmir in the west
Arunachal Pradesh in the east. The 8,848
metres high Mount Everest, in the
Himalaya mountains, is the highest peak
in the world. It is in Nepal. The Himalaya
mountains consist of three parallel
ranges. They are: The Great Himalaya

5. The Peninsular Plateau
 The peninsular plateau is the largest
and the oldest of all the physiographic
divisions. Its north-west limit is marked
by the Aravalli range and its northern
extreme has the raised Bundelkhand. At
its western and eastern ends are the
Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats
respectively. It has the shape of an
inverted triangle. The plateau can be
divided as follows.
• The Central Plateaus

6. The Coastal Plains And
Islands
The Coastal Plain is divided into 2 parts
 The Eastern Ghats
&
 The Western Ghats

7. The Eastern Ghats
The Northern part of eastern
coastal plain is called The
Northern Circars and the
southern part is called the
Coromandel Coast . Rivers such
as the Mahanadi , Godavari ,
Krishna and Kaveri have formed
fertile deltas along the Eastern

8. The Western Ghats
The Northern part of the
western coastal plain is called
Konkani coast and the Southern
part is called the Coromandel
coast . Rivers such as Mahanadi ,
Godavari ,Krishna Kaveri have
formed fertile deltas along the
Eastern coastal plain.

9. Islands
Apart from several islands found along the coast
of India there are two main groups of islands. One
of them is the Lakshadweep islands in the
Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of
Bengal.
Minicoy, with an area of about 5 sq. km, is the
largest island in the Lakshadweep group. The
Andaman and Nicobar group stretches for a
distance of about 600 km.Most of these islands are
mountainous and are covered with thick forest