Geography

With a 3 287 732 km surface ² (It’s six times bigger than France) India is the seventh biggest country in the world. The biggest distance covers 2 933 km from east to west, and 3 214 km from north to south (of the north headland of the Cashmere on the Cape Comorin) .The Tropic of Cancer passes in the middle of the country which is separated from the Asian continent by Himalaya. Lined in the North by China, Nepal and Bhutan, in the East by Burma and Bangladesh, on the West by Pakistan, India possesses 15 200 km of ground borders and 6 100 km of coast. The Ganges, in which waters get involved to those of the Brahmaputra in the East to form an immense delta, is 2 500 km. Its pond, twice big as France, appears among the regions where the density of population is one of stronger of the world. In the South of this plain rises the plateau of Deccan lined by the Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal peaking in 8 614 metres and forming more than 5 500 km of coast. The country can divide into 4 big geographical zones:
-Himalaya, big continuous chain on 2 400 km, with a width varying from 240 to 320 km

-the Ganges plain, parallel to the Himalayan chain. It consists of 3 main ponds (the Indus on the West, the Ganges in the centre and the Brahmaputra in the East). This region, very flatboat, is often destroyed by the monsoon which floods the plain.

- The desert zone, including Rann de Kutch and Rajasthan on the West.

- The peninsular plateau, separated from the pond of the Ganges by several mountain ranges of average height (450 - 1 200 m): mountains Aravalli, Vindya, Satpura, Marikola and Ajanta.
East of the peninsula is a coastal chain: oriental Ghâts (600 m), separated from the bay of Bengal by another coastal where chain meets itself the estuaries of 2 big rivers of the South of India, Kristna and Godavari. On the West, the peninsula is also lined by a coastal chain of higher height (1 000 - 2 400 m): Western Ghâts separated