1. Write down the area of India.
2. What percentage of area India occupy in the world.
Write down the rank of India according to area in the world.
4. Why Ahmedabad and Kolkata are able to see the noon exactly overhead twice in a year.
5. Why 82 degree 30 minute is has been selected as the standard meridian of India.
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Why is the difference between the duration of day and night hardly felt at Kanyakumari but not so in Kashmir?
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Answer:
1-India is situated north of the equator between 8°4' north to 37°6' north latitude and 68°7' east to 97°25' east longitude. It is the seventh-largest country in the world, with a total area of 3,287,263 square kilometres (1,269,219 sq mi).
2-India occupies 2.4 percent of the total land area of the world, but supports 16.7 percent of the world population.
3-Rank of India is 7.
4-Ahmadabad and Kolkata lie within the tropical zone and Delhi slightly above the Tropic of Cancer. The the two former cities get the overhead sun twice a year This happens once when the Suns direct rays shifts from the equator to the Tropic and secondly when it moves away from the Tropic to the Equator.
5-Accordingly, each country chooses a central meridian. The local time of this Meridian will be the standard time of the country. ... 82degree 30 minutes is chosen as standard Meridian mainly because it lies almost in the middle of India.
6-Above the equator which is 0° latitude, India is located. At the 0° latitude, India is located. ... Since Kanyakumari is located near the equator therefore the difference in day and night is almost 1 hour but Kashmir is located 30° from the equator which makes a difference in day and night more.