India's Geography Is Stranger Than You Think (50 Facts)

Описание: India looks like a simple triangle on the map: mountains on top, coast on both sides, a point at the bottom. That picture is missing almost everything interesting.

In this episode: 50 geography facts about India, from the wettest village on Earth and the most crowded desert on the planet, to a river that flows the wrong way through the deepest canyon in the world, a lake punched out by a meteorite, the only floating national park, an island where no outsider may land, a 2,500 km hedge the British built to tax salt, and the disputed island that ended the argument by sinking.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro: the triangle that is really a crash site
00:34 Facts 1–6: size, plates and the highest peak
02:33 Facts 7–12: the monsoon, the wettest place on Earth, living bridges
04:23 Facts 13–16: the most crowded desert and the sea that disappears
05:46 Facts 17–22: rivers that flow the wrong way
07:48 Facts 23–26: lava, a meteorite lake and the old mountains
09:13 Facts 27–32: where three seas meet, islands and a volcano
11:12 Facts 33–36: floating islands and a lake split by a border
12:29 Facts 39–42: the roof of the world: roads, glaciers, bridges
14:04 Facts 43–46: the Chicken's Neck, enclaves and Mumbai's seven islands
15:29 Facts 47–50: tigers, the Great Hedge and the island that sank
16:42 Which country next?

Sources: Survey of India, India Meteorological Department, Geological Survey of India, NASA Earth Observatory, National Tiger Conservation Authority (2022 census), UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Indian Railways (Chenab Bridge), Border Roads Organisation (Umling La).

Stock footage via Pexels (credits in pinned comment / credits.txt).

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