The landscape of the district is dominated by the Northern Ridge chain of hills which separate the basins of the Northern Dvina and the Volga Rivers, or, more generally, the basins of the Arctic Ocean and the Caspian Sea.
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The district of Ilam in Nepal falls on the western part of this ridge, and the northern ridge ends up in Sikkim, the Indian part of the Himalayas.