Plains of Northern India, also known as or the North Indian River Plain, are a flat and enormous plain. These plains extend in the east west direction between the Himalayan in the north and in the south. These plains form an unbroken belt of alluvium varying in thickness from east Plain to and northern. Sutlej Plain in the west, the Ganga Plain in the middle, the Delta and the Brahmaputra Valley in the east constitute the northern plains.

The Northern Fertile Plain lies to the south of Himalayan Region. It is also called the Gangetic Plain. It is a vast plain and level land between the Himalayas in the. The northern plains of India comprise a large, flat and fertile region that runs across the northern and eastern areas of India into Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh.

The Thar is located in the west of the being largely a plain formed partly by corrosion and partly by deposition is also included in the plains of Northern India. These plains continue to the west beyond Punjab and and merge into the Indus Plains in neighbouring country Pakistan. Extension of the Plains of Northern India The Plains of Northern India, also known as the Gangetic Plains, is situated in the southern Himalayan Region. The Northern Plains spreading from Assam to Punjab has a length of around 2400 km and the width ranges between 150 km to 300 km, varying in different regions. It can be found in Bihar, Punjab,,,, parts of and. Features of Plains of Northern India The plains of Northern India are consistently level plains without any interruption except for a few outliers of the, such as, in the environs of. Formerly deep trenches of around 6 to 8 km in depth, these plains outline the isolated low hills or ridges and come out of the adjacent alluvium as islands in the ocean.

The trench was formed as a fore deep, when the Himalayas rose as fold mountains. This east-west depression received drainage from the in the north and the plateau in the south.

Owing to continued silting, the depression was filled up with sediments. Stability in the level of these plains is mainly due to two basic facts. Firstly, no earth movement disturbed their flatness later and secondly the deposition took place in water. The watershed that divides the Sutlej Plain from the Ganga Plain is low as one enters the Haryana-Punjab Plain from the Uttar Pradesh Plain. Division of Plains of Northern India The Plains of Northern India are generally divided into 2 river systems- * The Indus in the west, and * The Ganga- in the east.

Indus Basin Less than 1/3rd of the Indus basin is situated in India (, and ). It is approximately 2900 km long and its primary tributaries include the,,, and. A glimpse into the map of India will show how these rivers unite together before finally merging the in the. The northern plain stretches over 1200 km between the in the south-west and foothills of the Western Himalaya in the north-east having a total covered distance, of hardly 300 m. Interestingly, these rivers have turned the plain of country's northern region pretty productive and it now bears the testimony of the densest systems of irrigation canals. Sutlej Basin The Sutlej Basin is situated in the west of the Northern plains covering both Haryana Punjab, as well as parts of., a tributary of Sutlej, adjoins the river at Harike.

In the Sutlej Basin, crops like Wheat,,, gram, oil seeds and are cultivated. Rice and wheat, 2 of the major crops are supplied from here, to the rest of the country. Ganga Basin has two primary origins in the Himalaya the and the. Both merge in and flow as the Ganga afterward. It enters the northern plains. Joins it in Allahabad.

It is believed that Ganga has originated from the jota or head gear of Shiva according to the mythical references. Roms Neoragex 5.0. ,, and in turn join the Yamuna River. They all stream through the before entering into the northern plains.

The is the only big river that joins Ganga immediately from the southern plateau. Further east, the, irrigating the entire region of, joins the, another tributary of the. The Himalayan Rivers uniting with the Ganga downstream of from west to east comprise of the,, and. The Ganga serves as the tank watering most of Haryana, southeast Rajasthan, and northern Madhya Pradesh,, and most parts of., located on the water divide between the river systems of Indus and the Ganga in the northwest to Sundarban in the east expands over almost 1800 km.