GEOG 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Deccan Plateau, Indus River, Indian Subcontinent
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Total population of india, bangladesh, sri lanka and pakistan = china"s. India arose in 1948 before that, no nation called india just a bunch of empires that don"t quite correlate to modern india. Physical geography himalayas in da north south of himalayas - flat plain with 3 big rivers. Indus, ganges, bramaputra delta of the ganges (indo gangeic plain) rest of india: deccan plateau - low mountains in west and east. Sri lanka: island in the south during the ice age, u could cross the channel. 80m y/a, the indian peninsula wsas par of gondwanaland with africa, south. Deccan plateau separated and ran into asia still moving north today, 2 in/yr created hims. Biogeo at high altitude, there are more palearctic species and fewer oriental species also have ethiopian species (spread through s arabia) only place where 3 biogeographic regions contact.
