Where are the non metals located in the periodic table?

Apart from hydrogen, which is in group 1, non metals are located in the top right hand corner of the periodic table. Seventeen elements are generally classified as non metals; most are gases (hydrogen, helium, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, neon, chlorine, argon, krypton, xenon and radon); one is a liquid (bromine), and the remaining five are solids (carbon, phosphorus, sulphur, selenium and iodine).