Country

India

India is a subcontinent sealed by the Himalayas to the north and ocean everywhere else, which is why its rivalry with China plays out on glacier borders and in the Indian Ocean rather than across a plain. The monsoon-fed Ganges plain packs one of the densest rural populations on Earth; water from Himalayan headwaters shared with Pakistan and China is a permanent strategic anxiety.

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