Location: Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and Pakistan
Geographic coordinates: 20 00 N, 77 00 E
Map references: Asia
Area:
total: 3,287,590 sq km
land: 2,973,190 sq km
water: 314,400 sq km
Area - comparative: slightly more than one-third the size of the US
Land boundaries:
total: 14,103 km
border countries: Bangladesh 4,053 km, Bhutan 605 km, Burma 1,463 km, China 3,380 km, Nepal 1,690 km, Pakistan 2,912 km
Coastline: 7,000 km
Maritime claims:
contiguous zone: 24 NM
continental shelf: 200 NM or to the edge of the continental margin
exclusive economic zone: 200 NM
territorial sea: 12 NM
Climate: varies from tropical monsoon in south to temperate in north
Terrain: upland plain (Deccan Plateau) in south, flat to rolling plain along the Ganges, deserts in west, Himalayas in north
Elevation extremes:
lowest point: Indian ocean 0 m
highest point: Kanchenjunga 8,598 m
Natural resources: coal (fourth-largest reserves in the world), iron ore, manganese, mica, bauxite, titanium ore, chromite, natural gas, diamonds, petroleum, limestone, arable land
Land use:
arable land: 56%
permanent crops: 1%
permanent pastures: 4%
forests and woodland: 23%
other: 16% (1993 est.)
Irrigated land: 535,100 sq km (1995/96 est.)
Natural hazards: droughts, flash floods, severe thunderstorms common; earthquakes
Environment - current issues: deforestation; soil erosion; overgrazing; desertification; air pollution from industrial effluents and vehicle emissions; water pollution from raw sewage and runoff of agricultural pesticides; tap water is not potable throughout the country; huge and growing population is overstraining Natural Resources
Environment - international agreements:
party to: Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography - note: dominates South Asian subcontinent; near important Indian Ocean trade routes
the mughal empire originated from Turkestan, and with the help of Akbar they we're able to push all the way into India and into Afghanistan eventually.
What does the implementation of terrace farming tell you about the geography of the Inca Empire?
The Empire became a colony of the British Empire (United Kingdom), so technically it was a colony of Europe.
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by helping them grow a trading empire
Mughal Empire was created in 1526.
Mughal Empire ended in 1857.
The Mughal empire is better than the Maratha empire.
They replace The Mughal Empire in China
The Mughal empire
the mughal empire lasted 333 years
The third capital of the Mughal Empire was Lahore.
The fourth capital of the Mughal Empire was Agra.
The Afghans invaded the Mughal empire in 1738.
The second capital of the Mughal Empire was Fatehpur Sikri.
The religion that developed during the Mughal Empire was Sikhism, founded by Guru Nanak in the 15th century in the Punjab region of South Asia. Sikhism emerged in response to the prevailing social and religious conditions of the time and combines elements of Hinduism and Islam.
At its height, the population of the Mughal Empire was about 150 million.