1. There are six major physiographic regions of India.
2. They are:
1. The Himalayas,
2. The Indo-Gangetic plain,
3. The Peninsular Plateau,
4. The Coastal Plains
5. The Thar Desert and
6. The Islands.
3. The Himalayas have 3 ranges of mountains. Among them Himadri has the highest peaks with an average elevation of about 6100 mts above the mean sea level.
4. In ‘Lesser Himalayas’ the height of the peaks ranges between 3700 to 4500 mts.
5. Shivaliks have an altitude varying between 900 mts and 1100 mts.
6. The Himalayas width differs from 500 kms, in the western regions to 200 kms in central and eastern regions.
7. The peninsular plateau consists of two broad divisions namely, the central high lands (Malwa Plateau) and the Deccan Plateau.
8. The place where the Western Ghats and Nilgiris meet has many peaks over a height about 2000 mts.
9. The average height of the Eastern Ghats rarely exceeds 900 mts.
10. The highest peak in the Eastern Ghats is Aroma Konda found at Chintapalli in Andhra Pradesh.
