(Source: IX NCERT Geography chapter 1)
- India lies entirely in the Northern Hemisphere.
- The main land of India extends between 8 degree 4 minutes N and 37 degrees 6 minutes N and longitudes 68 degrees 7 minutes E and 97 degrees 25 minute E.
- The tropic of cancer divides India into almost two equal parts.
- The southernmost point of India is Indira Point.
- The land mass of India has an area of 3.28 million square km.
- India's total area accounts for about 2.4 percent of the total geographical area of the world.
- India is the seventh largest country in the world.
- India has a land boundary of about 15,200 km.
- The total length of the India's coast line including Andaman and Nicobar and Lakshadweep is 7,516.6km.
- India is bounded by the young fold mountains in the northwest, north and north east.
- From Gujarat to Arunachal Pradesh there is a time lag of two hours.
- The time along the standard Meridian of India (82 degrees and 30 minutes East) passing through Mirzapur( in Uttar Pradesh) is taken as the standard time of India.
- India shares its land boundaries with Pakistan and Afghanistan in the northwest, China, Nepal and Bhutan in the north and Myanmar and Bangladesh in the east.
- India's southern neighbours across the sea consist of the two island countries, namely Sri Lanka and Maldives.
- Sri Lanka is separated from India by a narrow channel of Sea formed by the Palk Strait and th Gulf of Mannar.
- Maldives Islands are situated to the south of the Lakshadweep Islands.
- India lies entirely in the Northern Hemisphere.
- The main land of India extends between 8 degree 4 minutes N and 37 degrees 6 minutes N and longitudes 68 degrees 7 minutes E and 97 degrees 25 minute E.
- The tropic of cancer divides India into almost two equal parts.
- The southernmost point of India is Indira Point.
- The land mass of India has an area of 3.28 million square km.
- India's total area accounts for about 2.4 percent of the total geographical area of the world.
- India is the seventh largest country in the world.
- India has a land boundary of about 15,200 km.
- The total length of the India's coast line including Andaman and Nicobar and Lakshadweep is 7,516.6km.
- India is bounded by the young fold mountains in the northwest, north and north east.
- From Gujarat to Arunachal Pradesh there is a time lag of two hours.
- The time along the standard Meridian of India (82 degrees and 30 minutes East) passing through Mirzapur( in Uttar Pradesh) is taken as the standard time of India.
- India shares its land boundaries with Pakistan and Afghanistan in the northwest, China, Nepal and Bhutan in the north and Myanmar and Bangladesh in the east.
- India's southern neighbours across the sea consist of the two island countries, namely Sri Lanka and Maldives.
- Sri Lanka is separated from India by a narrow channel of Sea formed by the Palk Strait and th Gulf of Mannar.
- Maldives Islands are situated to the south of the Lakshadweep Islands.