Test: India- Size And Location- 1 - UPSC

Tropic of Cancer divides India into almost two equal parts. Tropic of Cancer is the northerly circle of the latitude on the Earth at an angle of 23.43 degree north to the equator, at which the Sun appears to be directly overhead at its culmination. However, Tropic of cancer does not divide India into equal halves.

STRAIT is a narrow channel of sea which separates two land masses.

Indira point is the name of the southernmost point of Republic of India. It is situated on Great Nicobar Island in the Nicobar Islands, which are located in the eastern Indian Ocean at 6°45'10″N and 93°49'36″E. This is not on the Indian mainland, but within the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Lakshadweep, formerly the Laccadives, is a group of islands situated some 400 km off India's west coast in the Arabian sea. They are India's only coral atolls and geologically a part of the same chain as the Maldives.

Uttar pradesh shares an international boundary with Nepal.

The Andaman Islands form an archipelago in the Bay of Bengal between India, to the west, and Myanmar, to the north and east.

India accounts for about 2.4 percent of the total geographical area of the world but supports the second largest population of the world. The total area of Indian land mass is around 3.28 million Km².

Kanyakumari at 8°4′41″N and 37°32′28″E is the southernmost tip of the Indian mainland.

Because, before the opening of Suez Canal, to reach Europe one had to cover almost half the east and whole of west coast of African continent taking a round through the Cape of Good Hope.

The standard meridian of India is 82°30'E. It passes through Mirzapur (Uttar Pradesh). The time of this meridian is taken as the standard time for the whole country.