Astronaut Bob Behnken captured from ISS the night view of the South India and Sri Lanka. Maga cities such as Bengaluru, Chennai, Madurai and Colombo of Sri Lanka across the Palk Strait are in the image.
South India, also known as Peninsular India, is the southern part of the peninsular Deccan Plateau in India encompassing the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry, occupying 19.31% of India’s area and 20% of India’s population. The geography of the region is diverse with two mountain ranges the Western and Eastern Ghats bordering the plateau heartland. The majority of the people in South India speak at least one of the four major Dravidian languages: Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam.
The local scenery on the ground of Chennai is as follows.
Reference: Bob Behnken’s Tweet
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