🗺 State & UT profiles
Himachal Pradesh
🗺 Geography
⛰ Land and rivers
Physiographic divisions: Northern and North-eastern Mountains (most of the state)
Mountains & hills: The Himalayas (most of the state)
Rivers: Chenab (Chandrabhaga), Ravi, Beas, Satluj
⚠ Natural hazards
- Earthquakes — Most vulnerable (named by NCERT)
- Landslides — High vulnerability
🌿 Protected areas and natural heritage
Biosphere reserves: Cold Desert (2009)
Natural World Heritage Sites: Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area
Ramsar wetlands (3): Pong Dam Lake, Chandertal Wetland, Renuka Wetland
📜 History
👑 Who held this land
Kingdoms, empires and cultures whose territory, as drawn on our map, covered a large part of today’s Himachal Pradesh, or that were based here. Extents are approximate, so treat this as a guide to who held the region — not as exact borders.
📅 Events in Himachal Pradesh
- 1945 Simla Conference · Shimla
- 1972 Simla Agreement · Shimla
🎨 People and culture
👥 2011 Census
- Population
- 6,856,509
- Share of India’s population (%)
- 0.57
- Density (per sq km)
- 123
- Decadal growth 2001–11 (%)
- 12.81
- Urban population (%)
- 10.04
- Work participation rate (%)
- 51.9
Geography: features are those on our Geography map that cover a good part of the state (or that NCERT places in it); hazards, reserves, crops, minerals, industries and ports are where NCERT, UNESCO or the Ramsar list name or place them. Census figures are for 2011, as NCERT prints them.
How this is made: nothing here is new — it is YugMap’s own map data sorted by today’s states. A kingdom is listed if its territory on our map covered at least 40% of the state at some point, or if its centre or capital lies here; events and places are listed where their map point falls inside the state. State outlines follow India’s official map.