Class 9 Notes Geography-India Size and Location

India is an antiquated civilisation however now it is a creating country. It has demonstrated surprising advancement in different fields.

India lies completely in the Northern Hemisphere.
India's territory reaches out amongst scopes, and longitudes.
The Tropic of Cancer isolates India into two relatively equivalent amounts of.
The island gatherings of Lakshadweep and Andman and Nicobar are additionally part of India.

Covering a region of 3.28 million square kilometers, India's aggregate territory is 2.4% of the aggregate land region of the world.
India is the world's seventh biggest nation with a land limit of around 15,200 km, with add up to length of the coastline being 7,516.6 km.
India's east-west degree gives off an impression of being littler than the north-south degree.
India's latitudinal and longitudinal degree is around 30 degrees.
India's standard time depends on 82.30 degrees E meridian, which leaves close Mirzapur in Behind.
Latitudinal degree impacts term of the day and night.

The Indian landmass is midway situated amongst West and East Asia.
The trans Indian sea courses associate nations in the west and districts in the east.
India's jutting Deccan Peninsula helped India to build up close contacts with West Asia, Africa and Europe, South-east and East Asia.
India's contacts with the world by means of land courses are substantially more than her oceanic contacts.
India is the main country which has a sea named after it.
India has contributed a considerable measure to the world in types of thoughts, rationalities (Upanishads, Ramayana, Panchtantra) and arithmetic (Indian numerals and decimal framework).
In return, India's design was impacted by Greek model and compositional styles from West Asia.

India has an essential position in South Asia and has 29 States and 7 Union Territories.
India imparts its limits to Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Bhutan.
The southern neighbors over the ocean comprise of the two island nations, in particular Maldives and Sri Lanka.
Shri Lanka is isolated from India by Pak Strait, a thin portion of ocean.
India dependably have and had solid topographical and authentic connections with her neighbors.
India stands separated from whatever remains of Asia.