India – size and locationMade by:

Rinkal Rudrawad

India is one of the ancient civilisations in the world. It has achieved multi-faceted socio-economic progress during the last five decades. It has moved forward displaying remarkable progress in the field of agriculture , industry , technology and overall economic development. India has also contributed significantly to the making of world history. India has 29 states and 7 union territories. No.of districts in India = 622 Capital of India = New Delhi

INTRODUCTION

LOCATIONIndia is such a vast country, lying entirely in the northern hemisphere. So how we would locate it in the map of world?

By using latitudes and longitudes. Latitude: imaginary horizontal lines parallel to equator. Longitude: imaginary vertical lines parallel to prime meridian.

India’s latitudinal extent=8˚4’N and 36˚7’NIndia’s longitudinal extent=68˚7’E and 97˚25’E

SIZEArea of India = 3.28 million sq.km.India’s total area accounts for about 2.4% of total geographical area of the world.India is the seventh largest Country in the world.India has a land boundary of about 15,000 km and the total length of coast line including Andaman and Nicobar and Lakshadweep is 7,516.6 km.

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01/05/200201/06/200201/07/200201/08/200201/09/2002

17.09Rus-sia

3.28India

9.62USA

9.59China8.51

Brazil

7.69Australia

34.24All others

9.98Canada

Seven largest countries of the world

Area in million sq. km.

India and the world

INDIA : EXTENT AND STANDARD MERIDIAN

The latitudinal and longitudinal extent of India is 30.The latitudinal extent influences the duration of the day and night as one moves from south to north.

From Gujrat to Arunachal pradesh there is a time lag of two hours. Hence, the time along the Standard Meridian of India (82 30’E) passing through mirzapur in Uttar pradesh is taken as the standard time for whole country. India is 5.30hrs front of prime meridian.

INDIA AND THE WORLDThe Indian landmass has central location between east and west Asia.India is a southward extension of Asian continent.The trans Indian ocean routes which connect the countries of Europe in the West and the countries of East Asia provide a strategic central location to India.No other country has a long coastline on Indian ocean as India has and indeed, it is India’s eminent position in Indian ocean which justifies the naming of ocean after it.Since the opening of suez canal in 1869,India’s distance from Europe has been reduced by 7,000 km.

India stands apart from rest of the Asia in many ways and is also known as a subcontinent because of it’s physical features.

INDIA’S NEIGHBOURSIndia has had strong geographical and historical links with her neighbours.India shares it’s land boundaries with pakistan and afghanistan in northwest, China, Nepal, and Bhutan in north, and myanmar and bangladesh in east.India’s southern neighbours across the sea consists of two island countries, namely Sri Lanka and Maldives.Sri Lanka is separated from India by a narrow channel of sea formed by palk strait and gulf of mannar while Maldives Islands are situated to the south of Lakshadweep Islands.

India and it’s adjacent countries

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