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Arrow-Puffin-3_Semester-1 Social 287throughout the year. The highest peak of the Himalayas is Mount Everest. It is in Nepal. Do you know it is the highest mountain peak in the world? Many rivers such as the Ganges, Yamuna, Indus, Sutlej and the Brahmaputra have their origin in the Himalayas. The climate around these mountains is very cold.India Map - Hills and RiversThe HimalayasIndo-Gangetic PlainKanyakumariThere are mountain ranges in the central and southern parts of India too. The Vindhya and Satpura Ranges are in central India while the Nilgiri Hills are in the south. But these mountain ranges are not as high as the Himalayas.PlainsAs we move to the south of the Himalayas, we see flat level land called plains. The Indo-Gangetic Plain occupies large areas of northern and eastern India. Rivers like the Ganges and the Yamuna flow through the plain making the region green and fertile. The summers are hot here and the winters are cold.Along the eastern and western coasts of India, there are plains. These plains meet at Kanyakumari which lies in the southernmost tip of India. Rivers like the Tapti, Godavari, Mahanadi, Krishna and Kaveri flow through these plains and flow into the sea. In the coastal regions, the climate is neither too hot nor too cold.What is the highest mountain peak in the world?Checkpoint