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The parts of India in brown and white, lying above the yellow and green portions of this map, lie in the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) The Indian Himalayan Region (abbreviated to IHR) is the section of the Himalayas within the Republic of India, spanning thirteen Indian states and union territories, namely Ladakh, [1] Jammu and Kashmir, [2] [3] [4] Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, West ...
The Himalayas occupies an area of 595,000 km 2 (230,000 sq mi) across six countries – Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. The sovereignty of the range in the Kashmir region is disputed amongst India, Pakistan, and China. The range varies in width from 350 km (220 mi) in the north-west to 150 km (93 mi) in the south-east.
In western India, the Kutch region in Gujarat and Koyna in Maharashtra are classified as a Zone IV region (high risk) for earthquakes. The Kutch city of Bhuj was the epicentre of the 2001 Gujarat earthquake , which claimed the lives of more than 1,337 people and injured 166,836 while destroying or damaging near a million homes. [ 51 ]
English: Political map of the greater Himalayan region, showing administrative boundaries, political claims, major uprisings and armed separatist activity in the region. Date August 2011
In the 19th century, as the East India Company had consolidated control over most of India, it began seeking influence and access to Himalayan routes and peripheral regions. Thus, in 1816, the Treaty of Sugauli was signed, affirming the India-Nepal border and establishing better relations in the region.
The Western Himalayas are the western half of the Himalayas, in northwestern India and northern Pakistan. Four of the five tributaries of the Indus River in Punjab ( Beas , Chenab , Jhelum , and Ravi ) rise in the Western Himalayas; while the fifth, the Sutlej cuts through the range after rising in Tibet.
Between 2014 and 2019, Modi met with Chinese President Xi Jinping 18 times, building a close personal rapport. The Xi-ordered encroachments were thus widely seen in India as a stab in the back.
The inhabitants of this region are mostly speakers of the Indo-Aryan languages and the Tibeto-Burman languages. [ 4 ] Some of the world's major transboundary rivers originate in the territory of the Himalayan states, including the Brahmaputra , the Ganges , the Indus , and the Irrawaddy .