North India

North India
Country	India
States and territories	Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir Punjab Rajasthan Uttarakhand Uttar Pradesh Chandigarh Delhi
Largest city	Delhi
Most populous cities (2011)	Haryana: Faridabad Gurgaon Panipat Ambala Yamunanagar Himachal Pradesh: Shimla Solan Dharamsala Baddi Nahan Jammu and Kashmir: Srinagar Jammu Anantnag Udhampur Baramulla Punjab: Ludhiana Amritsar Jalandhar Patiala Bathinda Rajasthan: Jaipur Jodhpur Kota Bikaner Ajmer Uttarakhand: Dehradun Haridwar Roorkee Haldwani-Kathgodam Rudrapur Uttar Pradesh: Kanpur Lucknow Ghaziabad Agra Varanasi
Area
• Total	1,010,731 km2 (390,245 sq mi)
Population
• Total	376,809,728
• Density	370/km2 (970/sq mi)
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
Official languages	Punjabi Sanskrit Urdu Hindi English

Himachal Pradesh:

Jammu and Kashmir:

Punjab:

Rajasthan:

Uttarakhand:

Uttar Pradesh:

North India is a loosely defined region consisting of the northern part of India. The dominant geographical features of North India are the Indus-Gangetic Plain and the Himalayas, which demarcate the region from the Tibetan Plateau and Central Asia.

The term North India has varying definitions - the Ministry of Culture defines the North Culture Zone as the states of Chandigarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttrakhand, whereas the Geological Survey of India includes Uttar Pradesh and Delhi but excludes Rajasthan and Chandigarh. Other states sometimes included are Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Gujarat and West Bengal.

North India has been the historical centre of the Maurya, Gupta, Pala, Harsha, Mughal, Marathas (Scindias),Sur, Sikh and British Indian Empires. It has a diverse culture, and includes the Hindu pilgrimage centers of Char Dham, Haridwar, Varanasi, Ayodhya, Mathura, Allahabad, Vaishno Devi and Pushkar, the Buddhist pilgrimage centers of Sarnath and Kushinagar, the Sikh Golden Temple as well as world heritage sites such as the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, Khajuraho temples, Hill Forts of Rajasthan, Jantar Mantar (Jaipur), Bhimbetka Caves, Sanchi monuments, Qutb Minar, Red Fort, Agra Fort, Fatehpur Sikri and the Taj Mahal.