INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

 

A study on Indian geography 

This article provides some important facts of Indian geography.

India lying entirely in the Northern hemisphere. It's latitudinal extents 8°4' N to 37°6'N and longitudinal extents 68°7' E to 97°25' E. The tropic of Cancer passes through the country and it divides the country into two equal parts ;i e. North and South.

India has total area of about 32,87,263 sq. km.  It has a land frontier of about 15,200 km. The total length of the coastline of the mainland, Lakshadweep and Andaman and Nicobar Islands is 7,517 km .

The southernmost point of the Indian union is Indira Point. The standard meridian of India (82°30E) passing through Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh. Sri Lanka is separated from India by the Palk Strait and the Gulf of Manner.

India has common border with Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan , Myanmar and Bangladesh.

India shares its borders with the neighbouring states likewise as follows:

1. Bangladesh - 4096 km.

2. China - 3917 km.

3. Pakistan - 3310 km.

4. Nepal - 1752 km.

5. Myanmar - 1458 km.

6. Bhutan - 587 km 

7. Afghanistan - 80 km.

India shares highest boundary with Bangladesh.

Border of Indian states with neighbouring countries:

1. Afghanistan : Jammu and Kashmir

2. Bangladesh: Assam ,Meghalaya ,Mizoram, Tripura and West Bengal.

3. Bhutan: Arunachal Pradesh ,Assam, Sikkim, west bengal.

4. China: Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir ,Sikkim ,Uttarakhand.

5. Myanmar :Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland.

6. Nepal:  Bihar ,Sikkim ,Uttarakhand ,Uttar Pradesh, west bengal.

7. Pakistan: Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan.

States and UTs of India:

Andhra Pradesh :Amravati 

Arunachal Pradesh :Itanagar 

Assam: dispur 

Chhattisgarh: Raipur

Goa :Panaji

Gujarat: Gandhinagar

Haryana: Chandigarh

Himachal Pradesh: Shimla

Jharkhand :Ranchi

Karnataka :Bengaluru

Kerala :Thiruvananthapuram

Madhya Pradesh :Bhopal

Maharashtra: Mumbai

Manipur: Imphal

Meghalaya: Shillong 

Mizoram: Aizawl

Nagaland :Kohima

Odisha: Bhubaneswar

Punjab: Chandigarh

Rajasthan :Jaipur

Sikkim :Gangtok

Tamilnadu :Chennai

Telangana: Hyderabad

Tripura: Agartala

Uttar Pradesh :Lucknow

Uttarakhand: Dehradun

West Bengal :Kolkata

Andaman and Nicobar: Port Blair

Chandigarh :Chandigarh

Dadra and Nagar haveli: Silvassa

Daman and Diu: Daman

Delhi ,NCR :New Delhi

Lakshadweep :kavaratti 

Ladakh: Leh 

Jammu and Kashmir :Srinagar, Jammu

Puducherry: Puducherry 

The hottest place of India is Briawali, Bikaner .

The coldest place of India is Dras in Ladakh.

The highest rate of India is k2.

The longest river of India is Ganga river.

The largest river island of India is Majuli.

The largest desert of India is Thar desert.

The longest coastline of India is  in Gujarat.

The highest undisputed pick of India is Kanchanjungha.