Geography of India

Geography

India is located in the south of Asia and with other countries conform the Hindustan region. It is the seventh largest country in the world and the second most populated behind China.

India was formed by accident, millions of year ago an enormus peninsula crashed in Asia and formed the Himalayas and the Hindus Kush muntains two that limit India from the north, in the southeast the bay bengal sea, in the southwest the Arabian sea, and finally in the south the Indian ocean.

Throughout the years India has changed capital three times, the first one was Kolkata, also known as Calcutta, then the british colonized the territory and changed the capital to Delhi because it was the political and economic center of the country, and the last one that remains until today is New Delhi that was inagurated in 1931.

Climate

In India there are a lot of different terrains,wich leads to a lot of diferents weathers.

In the west you will find the Thar desert where the weather is obviusly very hot and dry.

The oposite happens at the north, there you can find very large jungles, and going even depper there you will find a very fertile place called Ganges Plain thanks to the natural springs that comes feon the himalayas, this area is very important for the country since half the country depends of the agriculture.

In summary the weather in India is very varied thanks to the geographic and geologic situation of the country, leaving extreamly dry and hot weathers in the north and very varied trpical climates in the rest of the country.