Northern India

Northern India is the most-populous and the most-visited part of the country. It mainly consists of the Himalayas and the Plains.

Regions

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Map of Northern India

The following regions are generally considered as parts of Northern India, but there is no universal definition. The Himalayan North and Delhi are included by most definitions, and all the Plains by some. Also everything north of Southern India may also be included in certain anecdotal definitions.

  Himalayan North (Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand)
  The Plains (Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Chandigarh, Delhi)

Some definitions of the North variously include all or parts of Western India, Central India and/or Eastern India.

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Hindi is the lingua franca of Northern India and many non-native speakers in the region can understand some level of Hindi. Besides, the region is home to various Indo-Aryan languages, which are derived from Sanskrit, including Kashmiri, Punjabi, and in broader definitions of Northern India, Bengali, Gujarati, Konkani, Marathi, Odia, Maithili and Sindhi.

This article is on an extra-hierarchical region, describing a region that does not fit into the hierarchy Wikivoyage uses to organise most articles. These "extraregion" articles usually provide only basic information and links to articles in the hierarchy. This article can be expanded if the information is specific to the page; otherwise new text should generally go in the appropriate region or city article.