Only 40 settlements were located on the Indus and its tributaries Īs many as 1,100 (80%) settlements were located on the vast plain between the Indus and the Ganga, comprising mainly the Saraswati river system (which no more exist) Ībout 250 settlements were found in India beyond the Saraswati River system a number of them were located in Gujarat, and a few in Maharashtra. Mostly, the Harappan settlements were located on river banks of which − km which is more than 20 times of the area of Egyptian and more than 12 times of the combined area of Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations. The total geographical stretch of Harappan civilization is about 1,250,000 sq. About 925 settlements sites are now in India and 475 are in Pakistan. Manda (Akhnoor District, Jammu and Kashmir) in the north to Daimabad (Ahmadnagar District, Maharashtra) in the south.Ībout 1,400 settlements of the Harappan culture are known from different parts of India. Sutkagendor (Baluchistan) in the west to Alamgirpur (Meerut, Uttar Pradesh) in the east and Harappan civilization extent starts from − The 1,400 settlements of this civilization discovered so far are distributed over a very wide geographical area covering almost 1,600 km (east to west) and 1,400 km (north to south). The remains of the civilization were first noticed at Harappa, therefore it is also known as the Harappan civilization.įollowing are the important geographical facts of distribution of Harappan civilization − In 1920-21, the Harappan civilization was discovered in the excavations by D. Till 1920, the relics of the civilization were found only in the Indus valley region therefore, it was known as the Indus civilization.
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