Northern India
Northern India is the most-populous and the most-visited part of the country. It mainly consists of the Gangetic Plains, the Thar Desert, the northern Himalayan region and the northern parts of the Deccan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Region with 504,000,000 residents
- Description: group of Northern Indian states
- Also known as: “North India” and “northern India”
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Northern India
- Location: India, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Northern India” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شمال الهند”
- Azerbaijani: “Şimali Hindistan”
- Belarusian: “Паўночная Індыя”
- Bengali: “উত্তর ভারত”
- Bhojpuri: “𑂇𑂞𑂹𑂞𑂩 𑂦𑂰𑂩𑂞”
- Bhojpuri: “𑂇𑂞𑂹𑂞𑂩𑂲 𑂦𑂰𑂩𑂞”
- Catalan: “Índia del Nord”
- Catalan: “Nord de l’Índia”
- Central Bikol: “Amihanan na Indya”
- Central Kurdish: “باکووری ھیندستان”
- Chechen: “Къилбаседа ХӀинди”
- Chinese: “北印度”
- Chinese: “印度北”
- Chinese: “印度北部”
- Croatian: “Sjeverna Indija”
- Dimli (individual language): “Hindıstanê Zımey”
- Dotyali: “उत्तर भारत”
- Dutch: “North India”
- Esperanto: “Norda Barato”
- Esperanto: “Norda Hindio”
- Finnish: “Pohjois-Intia”
- French: “Inde du Nord”
- French: “nord de l’Inde”
- Georgian: “ჩრდილოეთი ინდოეთი”
- German: “Nordindien”
- Hebrew: “צפון הודו”
- Hindi: “उत्तर भारत”
- Hindi: “उत्तर भारतीय”
- Hindi: “उत्तरी भारत”
- Indonesian: “India Utara”
- Japanese: “インド北部”
- Japanese: “北インド”
- Japanese: “北部インド”
- Kannada: “ಉತ್ತರ ಭಾರತ”
- Korean: “북 인도”
- Korean: “북부 인도”
- Korean: “북부인도”
- Korean: “북인도”
- Korean: “인도 북부”
- Korean: “인도북부”
- Latvian: “Ziemeļindija”
- Magahi: “उत्तरभारत”
- Malay: “India Utara”
- Malayalam: “North India”
- Malayalam: “Northern India”
- Malayalam: “ഉത്തരേന്ത്യ”
- Malayalam: “വടക്കേ ഇന്ത്യ”
- Marathi: “उत्तर भारत”
- Mingrelian: “ოორუე ინდოეთი”
- Nepali: “उत्तर भारत”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nord-India”
- Panjabi: “ਉੱਤਰੀ ਭਾਰਤ”
- Persian: “شمال هند”
- Portuguese: “Índia do Norte”
- Russian: “Северная Индия”
- Sanskrit: “उत्तर भारत”
- Sanskrit: “उत्तर भारतम्”
- Sanskrit: “उत्तरभारतम्”
- Santali: “ᱠᱚᱧᱮ ᱥᱤᱧᱚᱛ”
- Scots: “North Indie”
- Serbian: “Северна Индија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Severna Indija”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sjeverna Indija”
- Sindhi: “اتر هندستان”
- Slovenian: “Severna Indija”
- Spanish: “India del Norte”
- Spanish: “India septentrional”
- Swedish: “Norra Indien”
- Tajik: “Ҳиндустони Шимолӣ”
- Tamil: “வட இந்தியா”
- Tatar: “Төньяк Һиндстан”
- Telugu: “ఉత్తర భారతదేశం”
- Thai: “อินเดียเหนือ”
- Turkish: “Kuzey Hindistan”
- Ukrainian: “Північна Індія”
- Urdu: “شمالی ہند”
- Vietnamese: “Bắc Ấn Độ”
- Western Panjabi: “شمالی بھارت”
- “उत्तर भारत”
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