!!!India: Geography
||Location|Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and Pakistan
||Geographic Coordinates|20 00 N, 77 00 E[{GoogleMap location='20.0,77.0' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''3,287,263 sq km\\''land: ''2,973,193 sq km\\''water: ''314,070 sq km__\\''We are unable to verify those figures from Factbook, since the 6 main sources we used for checking give different figures as follows:\\[Factbook|https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook]: 3287263\\ [DBpedia|http://dbpedia.org]: 3287262\\ [Geoname|http://www.geonames.org]: 3287590\\ [Infoplease|http://www.infoplease.com]: 3287590\\ [Britannica|http://www.britannica.com]: 3166414\\ [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: 3287000''__\\__Attempted Explanation__: Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org]
||Land boundaries|''total: ''13,888 km\\''border countries: ''Bangladesh 4,142 km, Bhutan 659 km, Burma 1,468 km, China 2,659 km, Nepal 1,770 km, Pakistan 3,190 km
||Coastline|7,000 km
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Indian Ocean 0 m\\''highest point: ''Kanchenjunga 8,598 m
||Highest Mountains|__Due to difference in mountain rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\ According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Kangchenjunga 8586 m; Kangchenjunga West 8505 m; Kangchenjunga South 8494 m; Kangchenjunga Central 8482 m; Distaghil Sar 7885 m\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Nanda Devi 7816 m; Kamet 7756 m; Saser Kangri 7672 m; Kabru 7412 m; Badrinath 7138 m\\ \\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Mountains|Geography/Asia/India/Geography/Important_Mountains]
||Terrain|upland plain (Deccan Plateau) in south, flat to rolling plain along the Ganges, deserts in west, Himalayas in north
||Natural Hazards|droughts; flash floods, as well as widespread and destructive flooding from monsoonal rains; severe thunderstorms; earthquakes volcanism: Barren Island (elev. 354 m) in the Andaman Sea has been active in recent years
||Natural Resource|coal (fourth-largest reserves in the world), iron ore, manganese, mica, bauxite, rare earth elements, titanium ore, chromite, natural gas, diamonds, petroleum, limestone, arable land
||Land Use|''arable land: ''47.87%\\''permanent crops: ''3.74%\\''other: ''48.39% (2011)
||Climate|varies from tropical monsoon in south to temperate in north
||Irrigated Land|663,340 sq km (2008)
||Renewable Water Resources|1,911 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|deforestation; soil erosion; overgrazing; desertification; air pollution from industrial effluents and vehicle emissions; water pollution from raw sewage and runoff of agricultural pesticides; tap water is not potable throughout the country; huge and growing population is overstraining natural resources
||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling\\''signed, but not ratified: ''none of the selected agreements
||Large Cities|__Due to difference in city rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Mumbai; Delhi; Bengaluru; Chennai; Kolkata\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Mumbai; Delhi; Bangalore; Kolkata; Chennai\\\\\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Cities|Geography/Asia/India/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|dominates South Asian subcontinent; near important Indian Ocean trade routes; Kanchenjunga, third tallest mountain in the world, lies on the border with Nepal