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Mapping The Great Game: Explorers, Spies & Maps in Nineteenth-century Asia. Oxford: Casemate (UK). pp. 67– 123. ISBN 978-1-61200-814-1. Deb Roy, Rama (1986), "The Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in a Historical Perspective" (PDF), Indian Journal of History of Science, 21 (1): 22– 32, archived from the original (PDF) on 25 January 2014
Joseph E. Schwartzberg (2008) proposes that the Bronze Age [[Indus Valley Civilization]] (c. 2500–1900 BCE) may have known "cartographic activity" based on a number of excavated surveying instruments and measuring rods and that the use of large scale constructional plans, cosmological drawings, and cartographic material was known in India with some regularity since the Vedic period (1st ...
The precise definition of an "Indian subcontinent" in a geopolitical context is somewhat contested as there is no globally accepted definition on which countries are a part of South Asia or the Indian subcontinent. [60] [61] [62] [6] Whether called the Indian subcontinent or South Asia, the definition of the geographical extent of this region ...
commons:Category:Maps of India – India Image:BlankMap-PersianGulf.png – Persian Gulf area, showing all of Kuwait , Bahrain , Qatar , and the United Arab Emirates , as well as large parts of other countries like Saudi Arabia , Oman , Iran , and Iraq . 359 x 251 pixels, 3 271 bytes.
Topographic maps are also commonly called contour maps or topo maps. In the United States, where the primary national series is organized by a strict 7.5-minute grid, they are often called or quads or quadrangles. Topographic maps conventionally show topography, or land contours, by means of contour lines.
English: Blank map of the Indian subcontinent. Includes territory governed by states and union territories of India, provinces of Pakistan, and nations of Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka. Includes territory governed by states and union territories of India, provinces of Pakistan, and nations of Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka.
India's territorial waters extend into the sea to a distance of 12 nautical miles (13.8 mi; 22.2 km) from the coast baseline. [7] India has the 18th largest Exclusive Economic Zone of 2,305,143 km 2 (890,021 sq mi). The northern frontiers of India are defined largely by the Himalayan mountain range, where the country borders China, Bhutan, and ...
English: Grey-green orthographic projection focused on the Indian subcontinent, where all countries part of said Indian subcontinent are highlighted dark green to provide the viewer with a visual representation of where the Indian subcontinent is and what countries are part of it.