Discuss about the location and size of india
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Continent Asia
Coordinates 21°N 78°E
Area Ranked 7th
• Total 3,286,592 km2 (1,268,960 sq mi)
• Land 91%
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Location
India is a vast country. Lying entirely in the Northern hemisphere the main land extends between latitudes 8°4’N and 37°6’N and longitudes 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.
Find out the extent of these groups of islands from your atlas.
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 is the seventh largest country of the world.
India has a land boundary of about 15,200 km and the total length of the coast line of the mainland including Andaman and Nicobar and Lakshadweep is 7,516.6 km.
India is bounded by the young fold mountains in the northwest, north and north east.
South of about 22° north latitude, it begins to taper, and extends towards the Indian Ocean, dividing it into two seas, the Arabian Sea on the west and the Bay of Bengal on its east