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What are the longitudinal and latitudinal extent of India and your state?

What are the longitudinal and latitudinal extent of India and your state?

The latitudinal and longitudinal extent of India is about 30o. The North-South extent is 3214 km and East-West extent is 2933 km. The longitudinal extent of India is 68 degrees 7′ E and 97 degrees 25′ E whereas the latitudinal extent of India is 8 degree 4′ N and 36 degrees 7′ N.

What is the latitudinal and longitudinal extent of India for Class 6?

Answer: India lies in the Northern Hemisphere and the Eastern Hemisphere. The Indian mainland stretches between ​8° 4’N latitude in the south and 37° 6’N latitude in the north. The longitudinal extent is 68° 7’E in the west and 97° 25’E in the east.

What is the longitude and latitude extent of India Class 9?

India is a vast country. Lying entirely in the Northern hemisphere (Figure 1.1) the main land extends between latitudes 8°4’N and 37°6’N and longitudes 68°7’E and 97°25’E.

How is the longitudinal and latitudinal extent of India different?

Due to the great longitudinal extent and difference of about 29°, there are wide differences in local time of places located at two extreme points of the country. The difference between these two points would be approximate of about two hours.

Where does India extend from south to North?

From the extends south to north, the mainland of India extends between 8°4’N and 37°6’N latitudes. From the other extends west to east, India extends between 68°7’E and 97°25’E longitudes.

Which is the measure of the distance between two latitudes?

Latitudinal extent: The measure of the distance latitudinally is referred to as latitudinal extent. The latitudes run from east to west and so from leftof the earth to the right. The distance between two latitudes is referred to as latitudinal extent.

What is the distance between East and west of India?

From the other extends west to east, India extends between 68°7’E and 97°25’E longitudes. The distance between two latitudes is constant that is 111 km but the distance between two longitudes is 111 km at the equator and reduces to 0 at the poles.