The annual rainfall increases from west towards the east. 8 The Lower Ganges Plains and the Assam Valley are more verdant than the middle Ganga plain.

The northern plains of India comprise a large, flat and fertile region that runs across the northern and eastern areas of India into Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh.

The Ganges River flows through the region, which is also known as the Indo-Gangetic Plain or the North Indian River Plain.

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THE NORTHERN PLAINS The northern plain has been formed by the interplay of the three major river systems- the Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra along with their tributaries.

The Northern Plains lie between the Himalaya and the southern peninsula.

The Northern Plains region includes the valleys of the Brahmaputra, Ganges, and Indus rivers and their branches, which rise in the Himalaya from the constant mountain snows.

The Brahmaputra and the Ganges are Indias longest and most important waterways.

The Great plain of Northern India lies on the south of the Himalayas.

It is, in fact, bounded by the Himalayas on the north and the Deccan plateau on the south.

Clusters of yellow lights on the Indo-Gangetic Plain reveal numerous cities large and small in this astronaut photograph of northern India and northern Pakistan, seen from the northwest.

The Indo-Gangetic Plain, also known as the Indus-Ganga Plain and the North Indian River Plain, is a 630-million-acre (2.5-million km 2 ) fertile plain encompassing northern regions of the Indian subcontinent, including most of northern and eastern India, the eastern parts of Pakistan, virtually all of Bangladesh and southern plains of Nepal.

The region is named after the Indus and the Ganges rivers and encompasses a number of large urban areas.

The plain is bound on the north by the Himalayas, which feed its numerous rivers and are the source of the fertile alluvium deposited across the region by the two river systems.

The region is known for the Indus Valley Civilization, which was responsible for the birth of ancient culture of the Indian subcontinent.

The flat and fertile terrain has facilitated the repeated rise and expansion of various empires, including the Magadha dynasties, Imperial Kannauj, the Mughal Empire and Maratha Empire all of which had their demographic and political centers in the Indo-Gangetic plain.

During the Vedic and Epic eras of Indian history, this region was referred to as Aryavarta (Land of the Aryans).

According to Manusmti (2.22), Aryavarta is the tract between the Himalaya and the Vindhya ranges, from the Eastern Sea (Bay of Bengal) to the Western Sea (Arabian Sea).

The region is referred to as Hindustan (Land of the Indus), deriving from the Persian term for the Indus River.

This term was later used to refer to the whole of the Indian subcontinent.

The term Hindustani is also used to refer to the people, music, and culture of the region.

A part of the Indo-Gangetic Plain over Northern, Central and Eastern India as well as Bangladesh.

The Indus-Ganga Plain is divided into two drainage basins by the Delhi Ridge; the western part drains to the Indus, and the eastern part consists of the GangaBrahmaputra drainage systems.

This divide is only 350 metres above sea level, causing the perception that the Indus-Ganga Plain appears to be continuous from Sindh in the west to Bengal and Assam in the east.

The streams disappear underground here.

The many tributaries of the Indus and Ganges divide the plain into doabs, tongues of land that extend to where the tributaries meet.

Close to the rivers is khadar land of new alluvium that is subject to flooding.

Above the flood limit, bangar land is older alluvium deposited in the middle Pleistocene.

The annual rainfall increases from west towards the east.

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