Question

Discuss India,s location according to its latitudes and longitudes extents.

Answer 1

To the south of Himalayas is the great Indo-Gangetic plain which is well known for its fertile soils. South of this plain is the peninsular India comprising of the uneven plateaus and coastal plains.

India is the most natural geographical unit which has developed a very distinctive culture which is further conditioned by a common foreign rule of over two centuries. Thus due to its vastness and diversities India is considered to be a sub-continent as it comprises all the characteristics of a continent.India that is Bharat is a country of great geographical extent. Girdled by the young folded mountain Himalayan chains on its North-West, North and North-East and washed by the foundered basin of the Indian Ocean and its two main arms—the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal on the South-West, South and South-East, it has since historic times the privilege of being a well defined geo-graphical and geopolitical unit.

Answer 2

the geographical extents, i. e., latitude and longitude of India respectively, are as follows- ... when we mention a Southern latitude, letter S is added to show its location in Northern