Himachal Pradesh derives its name from the Sanskrit word, Himachal, which when split means him (snow) and achal (unmovable) of “The Mountain State”. About 350-7000m above the sea level and covering over 56,000 sq km of the Western Himalayas, the state’s terrain rises from the foothills of the Shivalik, bordering the plains of Punjab’s, and extends to the trans – Himalayan heights of the Zanskar Range, bordering Ladakh and Tibet.
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