India size and location Notes

India -- Size and Location

1. Location

2. Size

3. India and the World

4. India's neighbours

India 

  India is one of the ancient civilization in the world.

 It has displayed remarkable progress in the field of agriculture , industry, technology and overall economic development .

1. Location

 India lies entirely in the Northern hemisphere.

 The main land extends between 

latitude --  8 degree 4 minutes and 37 degree 6 minutes

and

 longitude -- 68 degree 7 and 97 degree 25 minute

Important Terms

1. The Equator -- It is an imaginary line that divides the globe into the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere.

2. Latitudes -- Horizontal mapping lines on Earth are lines of latitude. They are also known as "parallels" of latitude, because they run parallel to the equator.

3. Longitude -- Vertical mapping lines on Earth are lines of longitude, known as "meridians". 

 

-- The five major parallels of latitudes from north to south are called: Arctic Circle, Tropic of Cancer, Equator, Tropic of Capricorn, and the Antarctic Circle.

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Note -- the Tropic of Cancer divides the India into almost two equal parts .It passes through the following 8 states :- 

    Gujarat ,MP ,Chhattisgarh ,Rajasthan, Jharkhand ,West Bengal ,Tripura ,Mizoram 

2. Size

  Area =  3.28 million square kilometre

            = 2.4% total area of world 

  Rank = 7th (India in Area)

 Land Boundary = 15200 Km

 Coastline length (including Andaman and Nicobar and Lakshadweep) = 7516.6 Km

 Note --- India is bounded by

 Mountains in the  ----North West , North East and North .

Arabian sea in the  --- West ,  

Bay of Bengal in the ---- East and 

Indian ocean in the ---- south

Standard Meridian Time

  Standard Meridian Time refers to the time System that is applicable throughout India. 

This is called Standard Meridian Time as it passes along the standard meridian of India through Mirzapur (UP) .......

      This has been taken to avoid confusion between due to the different latitudinal extent..

    e.g : The Sun rises two hours earlier in Arunachal Pradesh as compared to Gujarat , but watches show the same time because SMT is applicable throughout India....

3. India and the World

           Indian landmass is situated between east and west Asia and is a southward extension of the Asian continent..

        

#Contact with the World through sea routes

            

From western coast -- West Asia , Africa and Europe

           

From Eastern Coast -- East Asia and South East Asia

Indian ocean

          India has the longest coastline on Indian Ocean. This is because of India's eminent position , the ocean is named after India.

#Contact with the world through land routes

   India's contact with the world through the land routes are much older than her maritime contacts.

         The various passes across the mountains in the north have provided passage to the travellers.

   This led to exchange of many goods and Ideas.

  India to World.

Ideas -- The Indian numerals , Panchatantra , Ramayana , Upanishad etc and

  Goods  --- Spices , Cotton , Muslin reached the world from India.

World to India

  Ideas --- Architectural style of minarets , Domes and sculpture style from Greek etc.

4. India's Neighbours

India occupies important position in South   Asia and has 28 states and 29 UTs.

 Neighbours 

      North -- China , Nepal and Bhutan

 

      East --- Myanmar and Bangladesh

     North -West --- Pakistan and Afghanistan

      South -- Srilanka and Maldives

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