Geographical Location of India Questions and Answers
1. In which hemisphere is India located according to latitude and longitude?
Answer: Northern Hemisphere.
2. What is the total length of India from north to south? m?
Answer: 3,214 km
3. What is the length of India in East-West?
Answer: 2,933 km
4. What is the length of total coastline of India including outlying islands?
Answer: 7,500 km.
5. Apart from which countries the rest of the countries including India are collectively called the Indian subcontinent?
Answer: China, Afghanistan, Maldives.
6. In what year did India become a sovereign democratic state?
Answer: 1950
7. Before 26th January 1950, India had only one state?
Answer: 28
8. Which were the states ruled by Chief Commissioner?
Answer: Ajmer, Bhupal, Bilaspur, Cooch Behar.
9. After the reorganization of the state in 1956, which are the districts ruled by the Governor?
Answer: Assam, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar
10. In which year the 24 Parganas district of West Bengal was divided into two parts?
Answer: In 1990
11. In which year the name of Madras State was changed to Tamil Nadu?
Answer: 1968
12. How long does Nagaland get full state recognition?
Answer: In 1963
13. 1973 AD: What important event happened?
Answer: Mysore was renamed Karnataka.
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