Geography

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INFO: The Mount Everest was formed about 60million years ago. It was named after a British surveyor-general of India ( Sir George Everest in 1865), the mountain was named after his last name. Height 29,035 ft. The height is about much as 20 empire state buildings and it is about 5 miles above sea level. On the border between Tibet and Nepal. It was first to be climbed at May 28, 1953, about four thousand people tried to attempt to climb Mount Everest. There was about six hundred people who successfully climbed Mount Everest. And this mountain is part of the Himalyian mountains around the border of Tibet (or China) and Nepal.



 INFO: Also known as the great Indian desert. 500 miles long and 250 miles wide. It overlaps northwest Inida and East Pakistan. The majority of the land is in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is an area that contains lots of sand dunes, broken rocks, and scrap plants. It also contains ruins of temples and architecture from hundreds of years ago. This land is a home to 40% of the whole Rajasthan population, most people living here are Hindus or Muslims. A unique fact about this desert is that it is one of the world's most densely populated deserts in the world. Even though, water is scarce and rain does not fall a lot in the area. Farming and agriculture is a bit difficult, but it is still a big part of their every day lives.





Info: Northern India and Southern asia collided together and formed mountains of Himalayas. Himalayas consists one of the most tallest peak in the world. It has more than 100 mountains. The Himalayan mountain cover 75% or three fourth of Nepal. Himalayas is one of the most youngest and the highest mountain range in the world. Another name for Himalayas is called, above the snow. Himalayas is 2,400 km in length. The himalayas is divided in to three parts. The Greater Himalayas, the Lesser Himalayas, and the outer Himalayas. The Greater himalayas contains the three highest mountain. It is about 6,000 meters high. The lesser himalayas is about 1500 to 5,000 meters high. The outer himalayas is 900 to 1,200 elevation.





 info- T he Ganges are sacred to the Hindus and start s in an ice cave in the Himalayas .E xit s to the sea Hindus bathe and have baptism in the river and some take the water to pour on them. W hen they die to give them better reincarnation it''s one of the most polluted rivers people still drink it's water and bathe in it the delta is 23000 square miles (60000 km) it's 1560 mi long (2510 km) there is a kind of dolphin called the Ganges river dolphin that lives in the river.



Himalayas

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Mount everest

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