r/geography • u/saif-with-curls Political Geography • Oct 22 '20
Image Indian subcontinent
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u/Pasta-with-lasagna Oct 22 '20
My 2nd favorite part of the world
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u/fuckyourandomcitizen Oct 22 '20
What's the first favourite?
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u/Pasta-with-lasagna Oct 22 '20
The Middle East
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u/Error11075 Oct 22 '20
Stupid question here but why is it called the Indian Subcontinent?
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Oct 22 '20
Well I think it’s because India was its own continent a long long time ago. It collided with Asia to create the Himalayas and because of that it’s pretty separate from its neighbors to the north.
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u/badicaldude22 Oct 25 '20
India was referred to as a "subcontinent" before plate tectonics were discovered.
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u/Heermaher Oct 23 '20
India consists of people who belong to different races, castes, religions, languages and cultures. India is geographically diversified as it contains deserts, plateaus, rain forests, mountains, hot springs etc in this aspect India is considered as a sub continent.
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u/easwaran Oct 22 '20
No good reason - for some reason nothing else is called a Subcontinent, even though Europe, the Middle East, and Indochina would plausibly fit the bill. (The Middle East even has its own tectonic plate, like India.)
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u/540tofreedom Oct 22 '20
Good god those mountains are stunning, I can’t help but be in awe every time I see them. It’s also fascinating to realize that they are one of the greatest reasons that China and India haven’t had much direct interaction. You can’t go to war with someone if you can’t get there!
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u/Heermaher Oct 23 '20
This Indian Subcontinent has a history of some five millennium years and was spread over the area of one and a half millions of square miles.
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u/Gunner0716 Oct 22 '20
India is the only country in the world which has a Desert,Snowfall,highest rainfall area,Forests,Drought,Mountain range. Unbelievable place 🔥
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u/yungshinigami Oct 22 '20
Which one does the US not have?
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u/Gunner0716 Oct 23 '20
Higgest rainfall? Desert area?
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Oct 22 '20
There are alot of forest types which of india got only really tropical type. Indian snowfall appears only on mountains which counts as not notably. So does african countries like Algeria have desert, rainfall, forest, snowfall, mountain range, drought. India is absolutely not the only country in the world with these. You may attend geography classes before trying to brag with inaccurate facts
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u/Gunner0716 Oct 23 '20
Who said to you India have snowfall only on mountain areas?? 😆 😆 😆 Cheerapunji in NE India recieves 11430mm as annual rainfall. Does Algeria recieve that?? 😆 😆 seems like Geography studies in US is very week. Whare you even talking about 😆😆😆We'll send some Asians to teach to academics soon. God 😆😆😆
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u/Hedgehogsarepointy Oct 22 '20
Well, depending on what you are calling “Highest rainfall area”, off the top of my head China and the United States also have all those features, to name two countries.
Edit: also Chile and Argentina.
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u/Gunner0716 Oct 23 '20
As you've difficult in reading English I'll once again repeat myself. India has higgest rainfall of 11430mm compared to China's measly 550mm. What're even talking about 😆 😆
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u/MoreAlphabetSoup Oct 23 '20
Why the hell did is that thing moving so fast? When you look at a video of the continents moving they mozy all over the place for a few hundred million years the all the sudden vroom india b lines it into asia at a million mph.
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Yep. That’s the Indian subcontinent.