INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

Detailed explanation-1: -It flourished around 2, 500 BC, in the western part of South Asia, in contemporary Pakistan and Western India. The Indus Valley was home to the largest of the four ancient urban civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China.

Detailed explanation-2: -South Asia is the center of one of the great ancient civilizations of the world-the Indus Valley civilization in present-day Pakistan and northwestern India.

Detailed explanation-3: -The civilization was first identified in 1921 at Harappa in the Punjab region and then in 1922 at Mohenjo-daro (Mohenjodaro), near the Indus River in the Sindh (Sind) region. Both sites are in present-day Pakistan, in Punjab and Sindh provinces, respectively.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Indus Valley is located in the region known as South Asia, or the Indian subcontinent. The Indian subcontinent is a huge peninsula extending into the Indian Ocean. Towering, snow-covered mountain ranges mark the northern border of the subcontinent, including the Hindu Kush and the Himalayas.

Detailed explanation-5: -Occupying land crisscrossed by ancient invasion paths, Pakistan was the home of the prehistoric Indus Valley Civilization, which flourished until overrun by Aryans c. 1500 BCE. After being conquered by numerous rulers and powers, it passed to the British as part of India and became a separate Muslim state in 1947.