North India is a nominally defined region corresponding of the northern part of India. The dominant geographical features of North India are the Indo- Gangetic Plain and the Himalayas, which limit the region from the Tibetan Plateau and Central Asia.
The term North India has varying descriptions. The Ministry of Home Affairs in its Northern Zonal Council Administrative division included the lands of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Rajasthan and Union niches of Chandigarh, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir andLadakh.The Ministry of Culture in its North Culture Zone includes the state of Uttarakhand but excludes Delhi whereas the Geological Survey of India includes Uttar Pradesh and Delhi but excludes Rajasthan and Chandigarh. Other countries occasionally included are Bihar, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal.