North India

North India is a geographic and linguistic-cultural region of India. Geographically, North India traditionally includes the entire Indian Peninsula north of the Satpura and Vindhya ranges and Narmada River. The dominant feature geographic feature is the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

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India - Satpura - Vindhya - Narmada River - Indo-Gangetic Plain

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As a linguistic-cultural and political region, North India consists of fourteen Indian states Maharastra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, and Bihar. These are states with very strong Aryan influence, and generally, inhabitants of these states have lighter skin than those of their southern counterparts. Their languages are preponderantly Indo-Aryan, and it is in this region that Sanskrit and the various Prakrits are thought to have first flourished.

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Indian - Maharastra - Gujarat - Madhya Pradesh - Jharkhand - West Bengal - Rajasthan - Himachal Pradesh - Haryana - Punjab - Delhi - Uttar Pradesh - Uttarakhand - Jammu and Kashmir - Bihar - Aryan - Indo-Aryan - Sanskrit - Prakrit

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North India remains primarily rural, but it is the location of the great metropolises of Delhi and Kolkata, and Mumbai, as well as many other important cities, including Allahabad, Kanpur, Ahmedabad, Patna, Jodhpur, Nagpur, and Bhopal.

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Delhi - Kolkata - Mumbai - Allahabad - Kanpur - Ahmedabad - Patna - Jodhpur - Nagpur - Bhopal

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