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Bookmark or Share- India - WikipediaIndia accounts for the bulk of the Indian subcontinent, lying atop the Indian tectonic plate, a part of the Indo-Australian Plate. India's defining geological processes began 75 million years ago when the Indian Plate, then part of the southern supercontinent Gondwana , began a north-eastward drift caused by seafloor spreading to its south-west ...
- Indian subcontinent - WikipediaThe Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas. Geopolitically, it spans major landmasses from the countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
- What Is The Indian Subcontinent? - WorldAtlasGeographically, the Indian Subcontinent consists of the peninsular part of present-day India, south of the Himalayas, on the Indian tectonic plate. From a political perspective, the Indian subcontinent consists of at least 7 countries: India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives.
- India | History, Map, Population, Economy, & Facts | BritannicaIndia became the world’s most populous country in 2023, according to estimates by the United Nations. It is known from archaeological evidence that a highly sophisticated urbanized culture—the Indus civilization—dominated the northwestern part of the subcontinent from about 2600 to 2000 bce.
- South Asia | Geography, Countries, Map, & History | BritannicaSouth Asia, subregion of Asia, consisting of the Indo-Gangetic Plain and peninsular India and often synonymous with ‘Indian subcontinent.’ It is bounded to the north by a series of mountain ranges and is home to one of the earliest known civilizations.
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