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Which mountain range formed when the plate containing the Indian subcontinent bombed into the continent of Asia?
The Himalayas.
What small country in the Himalayas lies on the 90th degree east line of the longitude?
The small country in the Himalayas that lies on the 90th degree east line of longitude is Bhutan.
What kind of convergent boundary is India in?
To the North of the Indian subcontinent are the Himalayas. These mark the Convergent plate boundary between it and the Eurasian Plate.
What small country in the Himalayas lies 90 degrees east line of longitude?
Bhutan
Name the three major divisions of the Himalayas from north to south?
The three major divisions of the Himalayas from north to south are: Ø The Great Himalayas/Inner Himalayas/Himadri(Northernmost division). Ø The Lesser Himalayas/Himachal Ø The Shiwaliks (Southernmost division).
Where is mt.Everest?
In the Himalayas, north of the Indian subcontinent.
What are the Himalayas north of?
Geographically: Indian subcontinent, some areas of the eastern Asian continent. Politically: India, Pakistan, and Myanmar (also known as Burma.) The Himalayas are a mountain range that lie above the Indian subcontinent. Major countries south of the Himalayas are India and Pakistan (And Sri Lanka, but this is an island nation, so they aren't affected geographically.) Countries which are within the Himalayas, or which contain the Himalayas as a major part of their geography, include Bhutan and Nepal. The Himalayas also stretch eastward above Asian countries, namely Myanmar (Burma). Besides India and Myanmar, no Asian countries outside the Indian subcontinent are south of it and directly border it, although other nations such as Laos, Thailand and China are technically south (east) of the Himalayas (in China's case, only in a very small part of the countries), they are mostly NOT directly south of it and/or do not include the Himalayas as part of their geography. (China does, but only northward; their southern areas do not contain any portion of them.)
The Himalayas were formed at a?
The Himalayas are a mountain range in Asia. They are being formed by the Indian subcontinent submerging under the Asian continent.
Are the Himalayas in Iceland?
The Himalayas or Himalaya for short, is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. So, No. The Himalayas are nowhere near Iceland.
How did the location of the Himalayas affect the development of civilization in India?
I think that because of the Himalayas growth in their height, they protected Indian subcontinent from the North.
What country are the Himalayas from?
Himalayas are basically spread across India, Pakistan. Its a mountain range which basically separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.
What landform was created when the Indian subcontinent collided with aisa millions of years ago?
The Himalayas.
The Himalayas lie in the southwestern part of what country?
I am sure most of it's part lies in Nepal. It lies in the north east of Nepal, only a very little part of it lies in Tibet. Himalayas are seen from Tibet but they lie in Nepal.
What separates the subcontinent of India to the rest of Asia?
India is called the "subcontinent" in that it's large and is separated to a large degree from the rest of Asia. The main barrier of the Himalaya mountain chain is the physical barrier between India and Asia.
Which mountain range formed when the plate containing the Indian subcontinent bombed into the continent of Asia?
The Himalayas.
How are mountains a safety barrier of India?
The Himalayas, due to their large size and expanse, have been a natural barrier to the movement of people for tens of thousands of years. In particular, this has prevented intermingling of people from the Indian subcontinent with people from China and Mongolia, causing significantly different languages and customs between these regions. The Himalayas have also hindered trade routes and prevented military expeditions across its expanse. For instance, Genghis Khan could not expand his empire south of the Himalayas into the subcontinent. The Himalayas are the natural barriers on the north protecting the boundary from foreign occupation till today.
What geographic feature separates the Indian subcontinent from the rest of Asia?
Indian Ocean is the geographical barrier between India and Africa .
