India is a large country in the southern part of Asia. It borders Pakistan in the northwest; China and Nepal in the north; and Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar (Once called Burma) in the northeast. The southern part of the India is a peninsula, or land surrounded by water o three sides. The Arabian Sea lies to the west, the Bay of Bengal to the east, and the India Ocean to the south.

India has three main regions: the mountainous north, the Plains, and the peninsula. each region has a different geography and Climate. Parts of the Himalayas are in the northern India. These mountains have the highest peaks in the worlds. Even today, the easiest way to travel and transport goods in the northern India is not by car or train, but on the backs of donkeys, yaks, and camels.

Winters in the mountains are very cold, and the snow piles high. Summers are warm and dry. Much of the world’s tea is grown in the eastern part of this region.

South of the foothills of the Himalayas, the land levels off to form the northern plains. The hot and dry Thar Desert lies in the northwestern part of the plains, but to the east the land is well watered. Here three major rivers flow: The Brahmaputra, the Indus and Ganges.

The waters of the Ganges are sacred to Indian people. Because of the abundance of water and rich soil, the northern plains region of the India is the densely populated area of the nation. Summer is unbearably hot, but winter is cool and dry. Here the rivers flood every spring because of water created when the snow on the northern mountains melts. A system of huge dams has been built to contain these floods. There dams generated hydroelectric power, and give water to farmers all year round.

The Ganges delta, the muddy fertile area where the Ganges River empties into the Bay of Bengal, flood during monsoon season. Monsoons are heavy rainstorms that blow in every year from the Indian Ocean.

Most of the southern, or peninsular, region of the India is taken up by a huge, raised, flat area called the Deccan Plateau. Highlands rose on the east and west coasts of the plateau. These are called the Eastern Ghats and the Western Ghats, (Ghats is an Indian word that mean “stairs”) The Climate in the southern part of India is warmer and wetter than the climate in the north. Some coastal areas have much as 428 inches (1,087 centimeters) – almost 36feet(10.9 meters) – of rain every year! The average rainfall in the west coast of the peninsula, however, is about 80 inches (203 centimeters) a year.