North India is a nominally defined region corresponding of the northern part of India. The Ministry of Home Affairs in its Northern Zonal Council Administrative division included the lands of Uttrakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh and Union niches of Chandigarh, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

North India has been the literal centre of the Mughal Empire, the Delhi Sultanate and the British Indian Empire. It has a different culture, and includes the Hindu passage centres of Char Dham, Haridwar, Varanasi, Ayodhya, Mathura, Allahabad, Vaishno Devi and Pushkar, the Buddhist passage centres of Sarnath and Kushinagar, the Sikh Golden Temple as well as world heritage spots similar as the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, Khajuraho temples,