Geography of India

1. Important facts about India

1.1. Lies entirely in the northern hemisphere of the earth

1.2. The tropic of Cancer divides the country approximately into two equal parts.

1.3. The southern half coinciding with Peninsular India lies in the tropical zone , the northern half , somewhat continental in nature, belongs to the subtropical zone.

1.4. India occupies the South - central peninsula of the Asian continent.

1.5. It is situated to the east of the prime meridian

1.6. India measures about 3,214km from north to South and about 2,933km from East to West, which is one -twelfth of the earth's circumstances at the equator.

1.7. It has a land frontier of about 15,200k.

1.8. The total length of the coastline of the mainland, lakshadweep, Andaman and nicobar, where as it's southernmost tip of the Indian mainland is Cape Comorin in the kanyakumari district of Tamilnadu.

2. Physical and political Indian geography

2.1. India with an area of 32,87,782 sq.km is the seventh largest country.

2.2. It extends between 8°4' and 37°6' north latitude and 68°7' and 97°25' east longitude, lying north of the equator.

2.3. Thus belongs to the northern hemisphere