india size and location ,9th class geography 1st lesson

3. Location
• India is lying entirely in the northern hemisphere.
• What is the land extends of India?
Ans. The main land extends between latitudes 8.4’N and 37.6’N and longitudes
68.7’E and 97.25’E .
• Which latitude divides India into two parts?
Ans. The tropic of cancer (23.30’N) divides the country into two equal parts.
• Write about ‘Indira point’ ?
Ans. The southernmost point of the Indian union – ‘Indira point’ got
submerged under the sea water in 2004 in the Tsunami.

4. size
• What is the land mass of india ?
Ans. The land mass of india has an area of 3.28 millon square km.
• What is India’ s total geographical area of the world?
Ans. The India’s total area accounts for about 2.4 per cent of the total
geographical area of the world.
• What is the length of the land boundary of India ?
Ans. India has a land boundary of about 15,200 KM.
• What is the total length of coastline of India ?
Ans. The total coastline of the mainland , including Andaman and Nicobar
and Lakshaweep island, is 7,561.6 KM
• Write about standard meridian of India?
Ans. From Gujarat to Arunachal pradesh , there is a time lag of two hours.
Hence , time along the standard meridian of India [82.30’E] passing though
mirzapur [in uttar pradesh] is taken as the standard meridian time for the
whole country.
• India is the seventh largest country in the world.

5. India and the World
• Write about the eminent position of India ?
Ans. No other country has a long coastline on the Indian Ocean as India
has and indeed , it is India’s eminent position in the Indian Ocean ,
which justifies the naming of an Ocean after it.
• Write about Suez Canal.
Ans. With the opening of the suez canal in 1869, India’s distance from
europe has been reduced by 7000km.

6. India’s Neighbours
• What are the neighboring countries of India?
Ans. India shares its land boundaries with Pakistan and Afghanistan in
the northwest , China (Tibet) , Nepal and Bhutan in the north and
Myanmar and Bangladesh in the east. Our southern neighbours across
the sea consist of the two island countries , namely Sri Lanka and
Maldives.
• How Sri Lanka is separated from India ?
Ans. Sri Lanka is separated from India by a narrow channel of sea
formed by the Palk strait and the gulf of mannar.
• India has 29 states and 7 union territories.