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North ___MASK84___ is a loosely defined region consisting of the northern part of ___MASK84___ . The dominant ___MASK28___ features of North ___MASK84___ are the Indus - Gangetic ___MASK6___ and the Himalayas , which demarcate the region from the Tibetan Plateau and Central Asia . ___MASK84___ , officially the ___MASK79___ of ___MASK84___ (" Bhrat Gaarjya "), is a country in South Asia . It is the seventh - largest country by area , the second - most populous country ( with over ___MASK78___ . 2 billion people ), and the most populous democracy in the world . It is bounded by the Indian ___MASK59___ on the south , the Arabian ___MASK61___ on the southwest , and the ___MASK20___ of Bengal on the southeast . It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west ; China , Nepal , and Bhutan to the northeast ; and Myanmar ( Burma ) and Bangladesh to the east . In the Indian ___MASK59___ , ___MASK84___ is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives . ___MASK84___ ' s Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia . Its capital is New Delhi ; other metropolises include Mumbai , Kolkata , Chennai , Bangalore , Hyderabad and Ahmedabad . Haryana is a ___MASK1___ in North India , forming part of the larger Punjab region . It was carved out of the former ___MASK1___ of East Punjab on ___MASK78___ November 1966 on the basis of language distribution . The name Haryana is found in the works of the 12th century AD Apabhramsha writer Vibudh Shridhar ( VS 1189 -- 1230 ) . It is bordered by Punjab and Himachal Pradesh to the north , and by Rajasthan to the west and south . The river Yamuna defines its eastern border with Uttar Pradesh . Haryana surrounds the country ' s capital Delhi on three sides , forming the northern , western and southern borders of Delhi . Consequently , a large area of south Haryana is included in the National Capital Region for purposes of planning for development . Haryana is one of the wealthier states of India and had the second highest per capita income in the country at  119158 ( US $ ___MASK78___ , 800 ) in the year 2012 -- 13 ( See List of Indian states by GDP ) and  132089 ( US $ ___MASK78___ , 900 ) in the year 2013 -- 14 including the largest number of rural crorepatis in India . Haryana is also one of the most economically developed regions in South Asia and its agricultural and manufacturing industry has experienced sustained growth since the 1970s . Since 2000 , the ___MASK1___ has emerged as the largest recipient of investment per capita in India . The Tibetan ___MASK91___ , also known in China as the Qinghai  Tibet ___MASK91___ or the Qingzang ___MASK91___ or Himalayan ___MASK91___ , is a vast elevated ___MASK91___ in Central Asia and East Asia , covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province in western China , as well as part of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir ___MASK70___ . It stretches approximately north to south and east to west . With an average elevation exceeding , the Tibetan ___MASK91___ is sometimes called " the Roof of the World " and is the world ' s highest and largest ___MASK91___ , with an area of ( about five times the size of Metropolitan France ). Sometimes termed the Third Pole , the Tibetan ___MASK91___ contains the headwaters of the drainage basins of most of the streams in surrounding regions . Its tens of thousands of glaciers and other geographical and ecological features serve as a " water tower " storing water and maintaining flow . The impact of global warming on the Tibetan ___MASK91___ is of intense scientific interest . Central Asia or Middle Asia is the core ___MASK7___ of the Asian ___MASK5___ and stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east and from Afghanistan in the south to Russia in the north . It is also colloquially referred to as " the ' stans " ( as the six countries generally considered to be within the ___MASK7___ all have names ending with the Persian suffix "- stan ", meaning " land of ") and is within the scope of the wider Eurasian ___MASK5___ . Pakistan ( or ), officially the Islamic ___MASK79___ of Pakistan , is a federal parliamentary ___MASK79___ in South Asia on crossroads of Central Asia and Western Asia . It is the sixth - most populous country with a population exceeding 200 million people . It is the 36th largest country in the world in terms of area with an area covering . Pakistan has a coastline along the Arabian ___MASK61___ and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east , Afghanistan to the west , Iran to the southwest and China in the far northeast respectively . It is separated from Tajikistan by Afghanistan ' s narrow Wakhan Corridor in the north , and also shares a maritime border with Oman . East Punjab ( known simply as Punjab from 1950 ) was a ___MASK60___ and later a ___MASK70___ from 1947 until 1966 , consisting of the parts of the Punjab Province of British India that went to India following the partition of the ___MASK60___ between India and Pakistan by the Radcliffe Commission in 1947 . The mostly Muslim western parts of the old Punjab became Pakistan ' s West Punjab , later renamed as Punjab Province , while the mostly Hindu and Sikh eastern parts went to India . The Himalayas , or Himalaya , ( or ) are a ___MASK95___ in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau . West Punjab was a ___MASK60___ of Pakistan from 1947 to 1955 . The ___MASK60___ covered an area of 205 , 344 km2 ( 79 , 284 sq mi ), including much of the current Punjab ___MASK60___ and the Islamabad ___MASK9___ Territory , but excluding the former princely state of Bahawalpur . The ___MASK9___ was the ___MASK15___ of Lahore and the ___MASK60___ was composed of four divisions ( Lahore , Sargodha , Multan and Rawalpindi ). The ___MASK60___ was bordered by the Indian states of East Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir to the east , the princely state of Bahawalpur to the south , the provinces of Balochistan and Sind to the southwest , Khyber - Pakhtunkhwa to the northwest , and Azad Kashmir to the northeast .