1. In which hemisphere does India lie?
Northern hemisphere.
2. What is the latitudinal extent of India? Or What are the degrees of the southernmost latitude of mainland India? Or What are the degrees of the northernmost latitude of India?
The latitudinal extent of India is between 8°4’ N (southernmost) and 37°6’ N and (northernmost) latitude.
3. What is the longitudinal extent of India? Or What are the degrees of the easternmost and westernmost longitude of India?
The longitudinal extent of India is 68°7’ E (westernmost) to 97°25’ E (easternmost) longitude.
4. Name the parallel of latitude which divides India roughly into two equal halves.
The parallel of latitude which roughly divide India into two equal halves is the Tropic of Cancer (23° 30’ N).
5. Name the two seas located around India.
The two seas located around India are the Arabian Sea in the west and the Bay of Bengal in the east.
6. What is the southernmost point of the Union of India?
Southernmost point of the Union of India is Indira Point.
7. What is the total area of the Indian landmass?
The landmass of India has an area of 3.28 million square km. it is 2.4% of the total area of the world.
8. What is the size of India among the countries of the world?
India is the seventh largest country in the world.
9. What is the total land frontier of India?
The total land frontier of India is 15,200 km.
10. Give the total length of the Indian coastline including the Indian islands.
The total length of the Indian coastline is 7,516.6 km.
11. In which direction India is bound by young fold mountains?
In the north, northwest and northeast direction, India is bound by young fold maintains.
12. Why is the north-south extent of India larger than east-west extent even though the latitudinal and longitudinal extent in degrees is of the same value?
This is because the distance between two latitudes is always 111 km i.e. always same whereas between two longitudes, it is the maximum at the equator and decreases towards the poles.
13. What is the time lag between Gujarat and Arunachal Pradesh?
The time lag between Gujarat and Arunachal Pradesh is 2 hours.
14. Why was 82°30’ E has been selected as the standard meridian of India?
82°30’ E has been selected as the standard meridian of India because it passes through the centre of India, i.e. Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh.
15. Which route connects countries of Europe in the west to the countries of East Asia?
The trans Indian Ocean route.
16. What is the significance of the Suez of India?
With the Suez Canal, India’s distance from Europe has been reduced by 7,000 km.
17. What is the total north-south extent of India in km?
3,214 km
18. How had India kept her relationship with the world in ancient times?
Passes in the mountains of the Himalayas provided passages to the ancient travellers while the oceans restricted this as people were afraid to travel by oceans.
19. Which ideas of India could reach the world?
The ideas of the Upanishads and the Ramayana, the stories of Panchtantra, the Indian numerals, decimal system could reach many parts of the world.
20. Which commodities were exported from India?
The spices, muslin cloth and many other commodities were exported from India.
21. From which regions and styles India got influenced in ancient times?
India got influenced from greek sculpture, the architectural styles of dome and minarets from west Asia in the ancient times.
22. Which is the largest state of India area-wise?
The largest state is Rajasthan.
23. Name the states of India which do not have an international border or lie on the coast.
The states are Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Haryana and Jharkhand.
24. Name the states of India which have common border with Pakistan.
The states are Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir.
25. Name the states of India which have common border with China.
The sates are Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh.
26. Name the states of India which have common border with Myanmar.
The sates are Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram.
27. Name the countries which share borders with India.
The countries are Pakistan and Afghanistan in the northwest, China (Tibet), Nepal and Bhutan in the north, Myanmar and Bangladesh in the east.
28. Which two island countries are India’s neighbours?
Sri Lanka and Maldives are the two island countries.
29. Mention the types of states in India present before 1947.
The two types of sates in India were: a. the provinces b. the princely states.
30. Who ruled the princely sates?
Princely states were ruled by the local hereditary rules.
31. Name the country that has common land frontier with the sates of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Sikkim.
Nepal
32. Name the states through which the Tropic of Cancer passes.
Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura and Mizoram.
33. Name the Union Territories of India.
The Union Territories Delhi, Chandigarh, Andaman and Nicobar, Lakshadweep, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Puducherry.
34. With which country Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat share international boundary?
Pakistan
35. Name the states of India which lie along the eastern coast of India from North to South.
The states lying along the eastern coast are West Bengal, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
36. Name the two states of India which are parts of Indian desert.
Gujarat and Rajasthan are parts of Indian Desert.