GEOGRAPHY AND POPULATION OF INDIA

India is the seventh largest country in the world in terms of area which it an obvious place to have vast geographical features. It lies on the Indian plate, a nothern portion of the Indo-Australian plate. The Indian landmass is surronded by three different water bodies and is easily regonisable on the world map. India is also famous for its holyriver such as Gangga, Brahmaputra, Indus,Godavari and Cauvery river.

India is also is know the second most populated country in the world. Currently population of people in India is estimated around 1.2 billion. A study also suggests that India would overtake China as the world’s most population nation by 2030. Population in India shows a static increase over the centuries as population was about 100 million in 1600 and remained nearly stationary until the 19th century and It reached 255 million according to the first counting taken in 1881. Studies of India’s population since 1881 have focused on such topics as total population, birth and death rates, geographic distribution, literacy, the rural and urban divide, cities with populations over eight million such as Bombay, Delhi and Calcutta.

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