India is seventh largest country of the world in terms of area.

1. Russia 2. Canada 3. America 4. China 5. Brazil 6. Australia

Indira Point is the southern tip of the Indian Ocean island of Great Nicobar, in the Nicobar Islands south of Burma. It represents the southernmost point of Indian national territory, some 1100 miles ESE of India’s mainland and only about 100 miles NE of Sumatra in Indonesia.

The Southern tip of India is Indira point which is also called Pygmalion point. Kanyakumari is the southern tip of India’s mainland.

City Latitude

Patna                     25.37’N

Panchmari             22.3’N

Allahabad               25.28’N

Ahmadabad           8.29’N

The Direct rays of sun will not fall on Srinagar. The sun rays directly fall in the middle of tropic of Cancer and Capricorn. Srinagar is very far from tropic of Cancer, so direct rays of sun do not fall over Srinagar while Chennai, Mumbai and Thiruvananthapuram located in between tropic of Cancer and Capricorn. 

Indian Standard Time (IST) is the time observed throughout India and Sri Lanka, with a time offset ofUTC+05:30. India does not observe daylight saving time (DST) or other seasonal adjustments. In military and aviation time IST is designated E* (“Echo-Star”).

Standard meridian of India is 82.5 E longitude which passes through Mirzapur near Allahabad. It is 5:30 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

The eastern part of India from False Divi Point to CAPE COMORIN is called Coromandal coast, while Konkan, Gujarat plains and Malabar plains are related to western coast.