North India is a region of diversities which include different climate, language, costume, culture and many geographical differences. It consists of snow capped Himalayan peaks along with hill stations at highest to low altitudes. North India also has Thar Desert in the state of Rajasthan. The fertile Indo-Gangetic plains of North India were once ruled by various Indian dynasties like Maurya, Gupta, Mughal, Maratha and Sikh prior to British Indian Empire before India became an independent nation in August, 1947.

It has many Hindu pilgrimage centers such as Varanasi, Ayodhya, Haridwar, Allahabad, Mathura, Vaishno Devi and Pushkar along with the Buddhist pilgrimage centers like Sarnath and Kushinagar. The Golden Temple of Amritsar is one of the major attractions of Punjab. The Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve and the Khajuraho temples are among the world heritage sites.

Many other attractions like the Hill Forts of Rajasthan, Jantar Mantar (Jaipur), Bhimbetka Caves, Sanchi monuments, Agra Fort, Fatehpur Sikri, the Taj Mahal, Qutub Minar and Red Fort. Hindi is the language majorly spoken in North India and is also considered as an official language. Other mostly spoken languages in the northern region are Punjabi & Urdu.

North India officially includes the Indian states of Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and the Union Territories of Delhi and Chandigarh. Rajasthan, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh are the other states tough not formally part of North India yet these states are culturally and linguistically accepted as North Indian states.