Name: 現在就去地理印度 (Geography Now! India)
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情態副詞

So we have finally encroached upon the giant: India.

Some of you've been waiting a long time for this episode.

程度副詞

You all know India is incredibly complex and diverse.

Even Indians have trouble understanding their own country.

Obviously, I won't be able to scratch even the surface in this episode.

But I'll try my best. A lot of you Indian geograpeeps have helped me along the way.

So thank you, and without further ado, let's begin!

♫ It's time to learn Geography! NOW!!! ♫

This place doesn't even need much of an introduction.

Everybody has heard of India. It's big. It's loud.

It's colorful, and most importantly it has a plethora of confusing territorial anomalies that I just can't wait to cover. Here we go!!

There's an old saying: India is a place where everyone is in a hurry,

First of all, India is located in South Asia right on the Indian and Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal.

Bordered by six other countries. So close to seven but that land bridge between Sri Lanka

got wiped away like 600 years ago by a cyclone. India is divided into 29 states and 7 union territories

with the capital New Delhi which acts as its own administrative

Keep in mind that New Delhi is actually just the name of one of the districts in the capital territory made up of 11.

The largest city however, is actually Mumbai, with New Delhi, Bangalore (or Bengaluru) and Hyderabad

following after. However the four busiest airports are Delhi (Indira Gandhi International), Mumbai (Chhatrapati Shivaji International)

Bengaluru's Kempegowda International and Chennai International in the south.

First of all what exactly is a Union territory?

In the simplest way I can put this Union Territories are places that are two distinct to be incorporated into a state

but too small to have their own local governments.

The first one of course is the Delhi National capital territory where the capital lies.

Chandigarh is a post-independent city constructed to replace Lahore as the capital of the Punjab area after it was split up between India and Pakistan.

Then you have the Island territories the smallest one

Lakshadweep and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The Andaman Islands being home to one of the last

the sentinelese tried who have been hostile to visitors and are therefore left alone.

As well as the Nicobar Islands which actually used to be a short-lived colony of Denmark.

Finally the three remaining territories are former European Colony towns and ports:

which are separated by 200 kilometers across the Gulf of Khambhat.

And the most confusing Union Territory: the French-speaking Puducherry

Which is actually split between four district cities across India:

Pondicherry is strange because it has 11 enclaves within the Tamil Nadu state or in this area you can also find the

commune with a little bit of controversy (look it up).

Here the Eastern States (also known as the Seven Sisters) are connected by this incredibly narrow 27-kilometer wide pathway known as the Siliguri Corridor.

This pathway is like a crucial artery that completes the India puzzle. Or so you would think?

I already talked about the disputed areas with India such as Aksai Chin and Arunachal Pradesh.

The latter pretty much just belonging to India as it's almost completely inhabited and operated by Indians.

So let's move to the other disputes. Now as of 2015 the Bangladesh episode is already outdated as India and Bangladesh have finally come to

complex former enclave/exclave dispute. In the end India only lost about 40 square kilometers of land to Bangladesh.

And now only a few enclaves and exclaves exist.

Now when you try to draw the shape of India you might want to be careful which depiction you use.

and those that don't really study very well might use this.

The point is the whole area is like the most heavily militarized

diplomatically stressed out region on the planet.

It's already had like four wars in the past half century.

Basically, India, Pakistan (and to some extent China) all want the entire area for themselves although

it's more of like a Pakistan-India thing.

In the China episode we already discussed the Chinese disputes with India

so I won't cover those in this episode if you want to learn more just watch the China episode.

But anyway! This entire area was a former domain known as the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir that was under Royal

Maharaja rulers all the way up until independence.

Currently this place is split up by this fenced off militarized line known as the Line of Control (LoC) between India and Pakistan.

Pakistan: Okay the British are out. We get to take your land.

J&K: No, we want to be an independent princely state.

Pakistan:  Er..we're supposed to take your land and majority of your people are Muslim.

Just like us. Even though your ruler is Hindu as well.

J&K: Hey India. If you help me, I'll let you secede my territory to your land with autonomy.

I love how Mike played India. He totally represents India.

Islamabad is less than 80 kilometers away from all that drama.

The Line of control meanders through the mountains until it stops at a point called NJ-9842.

This is where things get really crazy because from there you hit the Siachin glacier (the second longest nonpolar glacier) in the world and this

is pretty much the dead man's zone. After point NJ-9842 you hit the actual ground

position line: a series of military outposts that extend all the way to the Chinese border.

That means everything in this area is ground zero for the Indo-Pak tension.

You know the crazy thing is there's actually literally small towns of normal regular civilians living in these areas high up in the mountains.

Many of which just go about daily life going to work and raising their families.

Otherwise they have a river dispute with Nepal

and various River Islands disputed with Bangladesh.

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