Question

The most widespread relief feature of India is (1) Mountains (2) Plains (3) Plateaus

Answer 1

Answer: (2) Plains

• India’s most prevalent relief feature is plains, i.e. 42.2 per cent of the landscape.
• The Indian peninsula consists mainly of plains and occupies a total area of 700,000 sq km.
• It is referred to as the wide plains of the Indo Gangetic and has main rivers such as the Ganga, Yamuna, Brahmaputra & total boundary of 15. 200 km.
• This 43% of the land area is appropriate for irrigation and is for industrial use, covering states such as UP (Uttar Pradesh), Bihar, Rajasthan Haryana & Punjab that together occupies the north Indian plains.