Rivers of India :- The rivers of India play an important role in the lives of the Indian people. The river systems provide irrigation, potable water, cheap transportation, electricity, as well as provide livelihoods for a large number of people all over the country. This easily explains why nearly all the major cities of India are located by the banks of river. The rivers also have an important...

Forests in India :- Indian Forestry: 50 million hectares, about 17 percent of India's land area, were regarded as forest land in the early 1990s. In FY 1987, however, actual forest cover was 64 million hectares. However, because more than 50 percent of this land was barren or brush land, the area under productive forest was actually less than 35 million hectares, or approximately 10 percent of...

Climate of India :- The climate of India defies easy generalization, comprising a wide range of weather conditions across a large geographic scale and varied topography. Analysed according to the Koppen system, India hosts six major climatic sub types, ranging from desert in the west, to alpine tundra and glaciers in the north, to humid tropical regions supporting rain forests, in the southwest...

Geography of India :- India the seventh largest country in the world, is well marked with off from the rest of Asia by mountains and the sea, which gives the country a distinct geographical entity. It covers an area of 32,87,2631 sq.km. Lying entirely in the northern hemisphere the mainland extends measures 3214 km from north south between extreme latitudes and about 2933 km from east to west b...

DISTRIBUTION OF WORLD POPULATION :- Human beings are very unevenly spread over the earth's surface. The greater part of the land surface is practically uninhabited, while large areas are very thinly peopled. Most of the world's population is concentrated in about 25 per cent of the earth's surface. The greatest numbers, about 90 per cent, lie in the Northern Hemisphere and even here, nearly 60...