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Rajasthan (lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northern India.

It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area.

It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population.

It is on India's northwestern side, where it comprises most of the wide and inhospitable Thar Desert (also known as the Great Indian Desert) and shares a border with the Pakistani provinces of Punjab to the northwest and Sindh to the west, along the Sutlej-Indus River valley.

It is bordered by five other Indian states: Punjab to the north; Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to the northeast; Madhya Pradesh to the southeast; and Gujarat to the southwest.

Its geographical location is 23°.3' to 30°.12' North latitude and 69°.30' to 78°.17' East longitude, with the Tropic of Cancer passing through its southernmost tip.

India's golden triangle is a tourist circuit in India that connects the national capital, New Delhi, Agra and Jaipur.

The Golden Triangle is so named because of the triangular shape formed by their locations on a map.

The trips usually start in Delhi and move south to the site of the Taj Mahal at Agra (in Uttar Pradesh state), then west, to Jaipur (in the desert landscapes of Rajasthan state).

It is normally possible to do the trip by road, train or plane.

The Golden Triangle is now a well-traveled route, providing a good spectrum of the country's different landscapes.

The circuit is about 720 km by road.

Each leg is about 4 to 6 hours of driving.

The Shatabdi Express, Vande Bharat Express, and Gatimaan Express train also connects New Delhi with Agra and Jaipur.

South India, also known as Peninsular India, is the southern part of the peninsular Deccan Plateau in India encompassing the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry, occupying 19.31% of India's area and 20% of India's population.

It is bound by the Bay of Bengal in the east, the Arabian Sea in the west and the Indian Ocean in the south.

The geography of the region is diverse, with two mountain ranges, the Western and Eastern Ghats, bordering the plateau heartland.

The Godavari, Krishna, Kaveri, Tungabhadra and Vaigai rivers are important non-perennial sources of water.

Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Coimbatore and Kochi are the largest urban areas in the region.

North India, also called Northern India or simply the North, is a loosely defined region consisting of the northern part of India.

The dominant geographical features of North India are the Indo-Gangetic Plain and the Himalayas, which demarcate the region from the Tibetan Plateau and Central Asia.

In a sometimes administrative sense, North India may be used to denote the Indo-Gangetic Plain within this broader expanse, stretching from the Ganga-Yamuna Doab to the Thar Desert.

Historically, it may refer to the northern region of the Indian subcontinent where speakers of Indo-Aryan languages form a prominent majority population.

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country as of June 2023; and from the time of its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy.

Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east.

In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia.