Capital | Delhi |
Area | 3 287 590 km² |
Population | 1,1 billion people |
Official language | Hindi and English |
Currency | Indian Rupee |
Climate | summer +35°C winter +25°C |
Recommended type of holiday | beach vacation (Goa) sightseeing (Delhi, South India) |
India, the major portion of the Indian subcontinent, lies atop the Indian tectonic plate, a minor plate within the Indo-Australian Plate. India's defining geological processes commenced seventy five million years ago when the Indian subcontinent, then part of the southern supercontinent Gondwana, began a northeastwards drift—lasting fifty million years—across the then unformed Indian Ocean. The subcontinent's subsequent collision with the Eurasian Plate and subduction under it gave rise to the Himalayas, the planet's highest mountains, which abut India in the north and the north-east. The former seabed immediately south of the emerging Himalayas, plate movement created a vast trough which, having gradually been filled with river-borne sediment, now forms the Indo-Gangetic Plain. To the west lies the Thar Desert, which is cut off by the Aravalli Range.
Capital | Bandar Seri Bhagavan |
Area | 5 765 km² |
Population | 407 000 people |
Official language | Malay |
Currency | Brunei Dollar |
Climate | throughout the year lasts +26°C |
Recommended type of holiday | beach vacation |