Question

% of the area of the earth.
8. India covers approximately ...
(A) 0.95%
(B) 10%
(C) 0.57%
(D) 2.70%​

Answer 1

Answer:

(D) 2.70 % is the right answer

Answer 2

India is the 7th largest country in the world.

Explanation:-

• India has a total area of 3,287,263 square kilometres (1,269,219 sq mi).
• Also, India approximately occupies 2.70 and exactly 2.4 percent of the total land area of the world but supports 16.7 percent of the world population.

• The Land is scarce in India, even though the country has a land area of about 328 million hectares which is the seventh - largest land area among the countries of the world.

Hence D is the right answer.