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1) Sir/ Man upon adding the total land borders of India according to this page it comes out to be 15,000 km exact but here 15,200 km is written this is false and baseless information.

2) Sir/ Mam please remove the citation of government of India website as false information has been given. According to government of India India has a 106 km long border with Afghanistan which is not included in this page. So please remove the citation of government of India. 2409:4043:2218:487:0:0:1C82:70AD (talk) 13:23, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 13:31, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

India also shares border with Afghanistan. Please correct the article. 2409:4055:9A:9CE7:0:0:249F:68A5 (talk) 03:21, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please refer to the discussions on this topic in the Talk:India archives. There are quite a few discussions which should give you an idea of the Wikipedia consensus around this topic. All the best, Fowler&fowler«Talk» 03:28, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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1. To do: Add these somewhere

• List of mountains in India
• List of mountain passes of India

Suggestion: Create a new section "Geological lists" at the bottom of article and above the "see also" section. Then add these 2 items to "Geological lists" section and move most of the relevant items from "see also" section to this new section eg. Borders of India Climate change in India Disputed territories of India Exclusive economic zone of India List of disputed territories of India List of extreme points of India. After that add Geology of India to "see also".

If you don't like the suggestion about creating a new subsection then at least add those two items somewhere in the article. Thanks. 119.74.238.54 (talk) 08:38, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Partly done: Added Geology of India to See also section. The list of mountains and passes articles are already contained in Template:Geography_of_India at the bottom of the article; it would be redundant to add them again.

This sentence is located in the third paragraph of the Geology section. The sentence- " National Disaster Management Authority says that 60% of Indian landmass is prone to earthquakes and 8% susceptible to cyclone risks." seems to be randomly inserted at the end of the paragraph, in middle of the discussion of soil types. WorldDiagram837 (talk) 03:53, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

New coastline figure: 11,098.81 km. Based on recent studies using high-resolution satellite data and GIS technology, is a significant increase from the 7,516.60 km figure derived from older, low-resolution measurements. The updated length includes previously uncounted features like offshore islands and more detailed coastal irregularities. 2405:201:9009:F0CB:980E:E0EA:D106:106B (talk) 04:58, 7 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Indian Government doesn't seem to use the term (anymore) but uses Peninsular Plateau for the geographic region (of four geographical regions: great mountain zone or Himalayas, plains of the Ganga and the Indus, the desert region and the southern peninsula or Peninsular Plateau).

The NCERT lists six main geographical regions: The Himalayan Mountains, The Northern Plains, The Peninsular Plateau, The Indian Desert, The Coastal Plains, The Islands.

Should the lemma be moved and the term adjusted? J heisenberg (talk) 17:53, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

What is an indian subcontinent ~2026-30251-99 (talk) 08:04, 20 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]