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The Indian subcontinent [note 7] is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas. Geographically, it spans the countries of Bangladesh , Bhutan , India , [ note 1 ] Maldives , [ note 2 ] Nepal , [ note 3 ] Pakistan , [ note 4 ] and Sri Lanka .
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 ...
An arc of mountains consisting of the Himalayas, Hindu Kush, and Patkai ranges define the northern frontiers of the Indian subcontinent. [20] These were formed by the ongoing tectonic plates collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates. The mountains in these ranges include some of the world's tallest mountains which act as a barrier to cold ...
From its inception in 1600 to its domination of the entire Indian subcontinent by the beginning of the nineteenth century, the British East India Company gained more and more territory. [1] With the acquisition of new territory, it employed several explorers and cartographers to provide maps and other information on its territories, most ...
English: Blank map of the Indian subcontinent. Includes territory governed by states and union territories of India, provinces of Pakistan, and nations of Bangladesh ...
The Indo-Gangetic Plain, also known as the Northern Plain or North Indian River Plain, is a fertile plain spanning 700,000 km 2 (270,000 sq mi) across the northern and north-eastern part of the Indian subcontinent. It encompasses northern and eastern India, eastern Pakistan, southern Nepal, and almost all of Bangladesh.
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.
A common approximate synonym for South Asia is the Indian subcontinent which excludes Afghanistan. Southeast Asia Commonly understood as comprising the ASEAN countries of Brunei , Cambodia , East Timor , Indonesia , Laos , Malaysia , Myanmar , the Philippines , Singapore , Thailand , and Vietnam . [ 18 ]