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important questions for class 6 (Kerala) CBSE social chapter Our Country India

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CBSE Class 06 Social Science
Revision Notes
Chapter – 07 Geography
Our Country-India
• India is a vast country with diverse geographical features.
• India is surrounded by the Himalayas in the north, Arabian Sea in the west, Bay of Bengal
in the East and the Indian Ocean in the south.
• India covers an area of 3.28 million sq km. It extends from Kashmir in the north to
Kanyakumari in south which is about 3,200 km apart and Arunanchal Pradesh in east to
Gujarat in west about 2,900 km apart .
The lofty mountains, the Great Indian Desert, the Northern Plains, the uneven plateau
surface and the coasts and islands present a diversity of landforms.
It has a great diversity in the climate, vegetation, wildlife as well as in the language and
culture but also has unity which is reflected in traditions that bind us as one nation.
• India is the seventh largest country in area and second largest in population .
• Locational Setting:
(i) India is situated in the northern hemisphere.
(ii) The Tropic of Cancer passes almost halfway through the country.
(iii) From south to north, main land of India extends between and
latitudes.
(iv) From west to east, India extends between and longitudes.
(v) The local time changes by four minutes for every one degree of longitudes. The sun rises
two hours earlier in the east (Arunachal Pradesh) then in the west (Gujarat).
(vi) Due to great longitudinal extent of about 29
o
, there could be wide differences in local
time of places located at two extreme points of India.
(vii) The local time of longitude has been taken as the Indian Standard time.(IST)
• India’s: Neighbours and Administrative Divisions:
(i) India shares its border with seven countries-Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh,
Afganistan and Myanmar(Burma). Sri Lanka is separated from India by the Palk Strait.