INDIA INTRODUCTION
Area: 32, 87, 263 sq. km, 2.4 % of the total land area of
the world.
Latitude: 8˚ 4’ to 37˚ 6’ N
Land frontier: about 15,200 km
Length of coastline: 7,516.6 km (mainland including
Lakshadweep and Andaman Nicobar Island).
North – south extent: 3, 214 km
East – west extent: 2, 93 km
Standard meridian: 82 ½ ˚east longitude
Southernmost point: Indira point (Nicobar Island)
Southernmost point of mainland: ‘Cape comorin’
