Question

Describe the location and sizes of India in three point each

Answer 1

Answer:

Location

• Lying entirely in the northern hemisphere the main land extends between latitudes 8°4'N and 37°6'N and longitude 68°7'E and 97°25'E.
• The Tropic of Cancer (23° 30'N) divides the country into almost two equal parts.
• To the southeast and southwest of the mainland, lie the Andaman and Nicobar islands and the Lakshadweep islands in Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea respectively.

Size

• The land mass of India has an area of 3.28 million square km.
• India's total area accounts for about 2.4 per cent of the total geographical area of the world.
• India has a land boundary of about 15,200 km and the total length of the coastline of the mainland, including Andaman and Nicobar and Lakshadweep, is 7,516.6 km.