India: Size and location

• India's location

• India's size

• India and the World

• India's Neighbours

• India lies entirely in Northern

Hemisphere.

• The mainlands extent between the

Latitudes: 8°4'N to 37°6'N

Longitudes: 68°7'E to 97°25'E

• The Tropic Of Cancer (23°30'N) divides the country into almost two equal parts.

• To southeast of the mainland lies Andaman & Nicobar Island in Bay of Bengal.

• To southwest, lies Lakshadweep in Arabian sea.

• Do You Know...

The southernmost point of the Indian Union- 'Indira Point' got submerged in sea water in 2004 during Tsunami.

• The land mass of India has an area of 3.28 million km², which is 2.4% of the total geographical area of the world.

• India is the seventh largest country of the world.

• India has a land boundary of 15,200 km and

the total length length of coastline of the

mainland, including Andaman and Nicobar

and Lakshadweep, is 7,516.6 km.

• South of about 22° N latitude, it begins to narrow and extend towards the Indian

Ocean, dividing it into two seas- Arabian

Sea and Bay of Bengal.

• Longitudinal and Latitudinal extent of

mainland is 30°.