Question

Latitudnal and longitudanal extent of india is almost 30°. The north south and east west extent in km is not same. Give reason

Answer 1

The latitudinal and longitudinal extent of India is almost the same degrees.i.e 30 degrees. But the north south distance  in Kilometers is 3214 and the east west distance is 2933 km. This is  because of the nature of the lines. The latitudes are parallel lines and the distance is fixed between any two points and will not vary according to the area or shape. The longitudes are not parallel lines and the distance between the lines vary from equator to the poles. The distance is maximum near the equator and minimum at the poles.

Answer 2

The reason behind it is that they are less number of latitudes and more number of longitudes for more information there are 181 latitudes and 360 longitudes

So the latitudes and longitudes are same in number but in kilometres the distance is not same because there is more gap between latitudes as compared to the longitudes

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