Question

Describe the location and size of India?

Answer 1

Hint: India ranks seventh position and the largest country in the world with a total area of $$3,287,263$$. India is a vast land with immense geographical and cultural variations. Towering mountains, extensive plains and plateaus, rivers, deserts, and coastlines makes a diverse landscape of this land.

Complete answer:
India’s total geographical area is $$3.28$$ million square kilometers. India is situated on the Asian continent. It has a total length of the coastline of the mainland including Andaman and Nicobar and Lakshadweep islands are $$7,516.6$$ kilometers. India is the seventh-largest and second most populous country next to China in the world. India is a peninsula. A peninsula is a land covered by water on all three sides. India is covered by the Himalayan Mountains in the north, the Indian Ocean in the south, the Arabian Sea in the west, and the Bay of Bengal in the east. India is located in the northern hemisphere i.e., it is to the north of the equator, and in the eastern hemisphere i.e., to the east of the Greenwich Meridian. The Tropic of Cancer passes through almost the center of India.
The Indian mainland extends between $$37$$ degrees$$6$$’ N and $$8$$degrees $$4$$N latitudes from north to south and $$68$$ degrees $$7$$E and $$97$$ degrees$$25$$’E longitudes from west to east. The longitudinal width of India is $$30$$ degrees. The time lag between the easternmost and the westernmost parts of India is two hours. The sun rises in the west (in Gujarat) only two hours after it rises in the east (Arunachal Pradesh). The entire country needs to follow the same time to avoid confusion. Therefore, $$82$$ degrees $$30$$E, the central longitude is chosen as the standard meridian of India. The time on this meridian is referred to as the Indian Standard Time (IST). The westernmost point of India is Rann of Kutchch in Gujarat ($$68$$degrees$$7$$’ W). The distance between these two points is $$2933$$Km India’s coastline and its maritime boundary are $$7516$$Km. the length of India’s earthly border is $$15200$$Km.

Note: The northernmost point of India lies in the Pamir Knot ($$37$$degrees$$4$$’N). The southernmost point of the Indian mainland lies at Kanyakumari ($$8$$degrees$$4$$’ N). The distance between these two points is $$3214$$kilometers. The easternmost point of India lies in Arunachal Pradesh ($$97$$degrees$$25$$’ E).