North India

Northern India is a geographic and linguistic-cultural region of , East India , West India and South India . The Vindhya mountains, in particular the line marked by the Narmada River and the Mahanadi River marks the southern boundary of north India. The line made by the Son River and the Kosi River marks its eastern border. The dominant geographic features of northern India are the Indo-Gangetic Plain and the Himalayas .

However, the socio-cultural boundaries of north India have actually surpassed these traditional boundaries. As a linguistic-cultural and political region, North India consists of twelve , Himachal Pradesh , Uttarakhand , Haryana , Punjab , Uttar Pradesh , Bihar , Jharkhand , Chhattisgarh , Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan (Bihar and Jharkhand are also considered as parts of East India ). The National Capital Territory Of Delhi is also a part of northern India. It shares most of its cultural, historical, musical, and linguistic heritage with neighbours Pakistan and Bangladesh , which were a part of the region before the Partition .

North India is culturally rich and diverse and is supported by very large cities: apart from the great metropolis of Delhi , the cities of Lucknow , Patna , Kanpur , Allahabad , Varanasi , Meerut , Jaipur , Chandigarh , Ludhiana , Amritsar , Jalandhar , Patiala , Srinagar , Jammu , Bhopal and Indore would rank with the most populous cities of Europe .

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