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Write a note on the location and sizes of India |
| Answer» India\'s Location• Lies entirely in\xa0Northern hemisphere\xa0between\xa0latitudes\xa08°4\' N and 37°6\' N and\xa0longitudes\xa068°7\' E and 97°25\' E.• Divided by\xa0Tropic of cancer (23°30\' N)\xa0in almost two equal parts.• In Southeast,\xa0Andaman and Nicobar islands\xa0lie in Bay of Bengal.• In Southwest,\xa0Lakshadweep islands\xa0lie in Arabian Sea.Its Size• Total Area of India is\xa03.28 million square km\xa0which is\xa02.4 percent\xa0of the total\xa0area of the world.• It is\xa0seventh largest country\xa0in the world in terms of landmass.• It has land boundary about\xa015,200 km\xa0and the total length of the coast line of the mainlandincluding Andaman and Nicobar and Lakshadweep islands is\xa07,516.6 km.• In the northwest, north and north east of India,\xa0young folds mountains\xa0bounds it.• South of about 22° north latitude, India narrows and finally extends towards the Indian Ocean. It also divides it into two seas, the Arabian Sea on the west and the Bay of Bengal on its east.• The latitudinal and longitudinal extent of the mainland is about 30°.\xa0\xa0• India’s east-west extent appears to be smaller than the north-south extent.\xa0• The time along the\xa0Standard Meridian (82°30\' E)\xa0passing through\xa0Mirzapur in UP\xa0is taken as the Indian Standard Time for whole country.•\xa0The time gap between Arunachal Pradesh present in the east and Gujarat present in the west is about 2 hours. The latitudinal extent influences the duration of day and night, as one moves from south to north. | |