Question

Name the parallel of latitude which divides India into two halves

Answer 1

The tropic of cancer is the latitude that falls in the northerly circle on the Earth at 23.43 degree to the equator.

It passes through a total of 8 Indian states that includes Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Mizoram, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Tripura, Jharkhand, and Rajasthan.

However, it doesn’t divide India into two equal parts but the division is approximately equal to each other.

Answer 2

Question

Name the parallel of latitude which divides India into two halves.

Answer :

The tropic of cancer

23.5° N