PHYSICAL FEATURES OF INDIA
Location. Lying between latitude 8 degree 4` N to 37 degrees 6` N and from longitude 68 degree 7` E to 97 degrees 25` E the country is divided into almost equal parts by the tropic of Cancer.
.The southernmost point in Indian territory is the Indira Island is the Indira Point (6 degree 45`), while as Cape Comorin is the southernmost point of the Indian mainland. The whole country lies wholly in the northern and eastern hemispheres.
.The 82 degree30` longitude is taken as the Standards Time Meridian of Indian, as it passes through the middle of India(from Naini near Allahabad).
Area And Boundaries: – India stretches 3,214 Km from N to S & 2,933 km from E to W.
.In India ,of the totasl land mass: .Plains43.3% Plateaus:27.7%,Hills:18.6%,Mtns:10.7%
.In the South, on the eastern side, the Gulf of Mannar & the Palk Strait separate India from Sri Lanka.
.Total land neirhbours:7(Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar).
About Position of States Of India:-Uttar Pardesh border maximum number of states- Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, MP, Chhatisgarh, Jhar.Indian Standard Meridian (82 degree30`E meridians) passes UP, MP, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, and Andhra Pradesh.