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India- natural division

1.The Northern Mountain Ranges 2.The Northern Plains 3. The Desert 4.The Plateau Region 5. The Coastal Plains 6. The Island Groups

The Peninsular Plateau is a table land composed of old crystalline, igneous and sedimentary rocks.
Its a part of the oldest landmass on the surface of the Earth.

It has broad and shallow valleys, rounded hills

The three prominent hill ranges in this region from West to east are

Garo Hills
Jaintia Hills

Khasi Hills

The western and Eastern Ghats are the edges of the Deccan Plateau in both the directions. The western Ghats lie parallel to the western coast.

The western Ghats are continuous and can be crossed through passes only.

Thal Ghat

Bhor Ghat

Pal Ghat

1. The height of the western Ghats ranges from 900m to 1600m.

2. The height of the eastern Ghats is about 600m only.

3. The eastern Ghats stretches from Mahanadi Valley to the Nilgiri Hills in the south. 4. The eastern Ghats are discontinuous and are cut by the rivers.

The Height of the western Ghats increases Gradually.

The Highest peaks include Anai Mudi (2695m)

Dodda Betta (2637m)

Mahendragiri (1501m) is the highest peak in the Eastern Ghats

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The Northern Mountains consist Himalaya, Hindukush and the Karakoram. These young fold mountains extend from Kashmir to Arunachal Pradesh [Indus to Brahmaputra]. Their length is about 2,500 km and width varies from 230 to 400 km.

The Indian desert lies towards the western margins of the Aravalli Hills. It is a sandy plain covered with sand dunes. It has arid climate with sand dunes. Luni is the only river in this desert. Places are desert where some water is found and trees grow are called oases.

The Great Northern Plains extends from Punjab Plain in the west to the Brahmaputra Valley in the east. It has been formed by three rivers namely the Indus, the Ganga and the Brahamputra.These plains are very fertile due to alluvial soil.

Along the Western and Eastern Ghats of the Deccan Plateau are coastal strips are known as the Coastal Plains. Konkan and Malabar are the name of the western coast. The eastern coast are called the Coromandal.The East Coastal Plains are wider than the West Coastal plains.

India has two clusters of islands-the Lakshadweep islands in the Arabian Sea and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal. These islands have thick forests. Andaman and Nicobar consists of about 233 islands and Lakshadweep consists of about 36 islands.