Why is long.l & lat.l extent of India spans over 25 deg but in km N-S extent is more than E-W extent?
535406
Latitude lines are placed so that they are parallel to each other- they form parallel circles around the earth.  Longitude lines, on the other hand, are not parallel- they intersect at the north and south poles.  Because they intersect at the north and south, the closer you get to the either of the poles, the shorter the distance from east to west between lines of longitude. Because latitude lines never intersect each other, the distance between them remains the same from north to south, across the globe.
647375
Well it depends on what the old record was India has so many ppl. Many languages and dialects.
1046372
Because it's near India.
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b/c there's 80 millions people living on a thin stretch of rocky land versus 10 millions living on the most fertile and fruitful land in south east asia. \n\nSimple geopolitics!!
385084
I was in India during those pesky bomb testings back in 1998.   At that time they didn't have long range capacity.  Sounds kind dumb to shoot a 10 megaton 200 miles.  Maybe they have it figured out now?
1040993
according to all India is in Northern Hemisphere... any doubt? consult basic geography book :)
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4.28 billion km or\n2.66 billion miles )
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An extra down, a longer field, and latitude
372877
Fairly simple question.  SImply mulitply the length of the coastline in miles by 200 (which represents, in miles,  the maximum extent of the Exclusive Economic Zone as directed by the United Convention on LAw of Sea or UNCLOS 1972).
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Wow....how old are you? It's a bit scary that this is something you have to ask. It makes me think you haven't paid attention during geography classes.\n\nIndia is a sovereign nation, located in The Indian subcontinent, a peninsular landmass of the Asian continent occupying the Indian Plate and extending into the Indian Ocean.  India borders Pakistan to the west, Nepal, China and Bhutan to the north, and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, it is adjacent to the island nation of Sri Lanka\n\nSaudi Arbia is the largest country on the Arabian Peninsula,occupying eighty percent of it. It borders Jordan on the northwest, Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south, with the Persian Gulf to its northeast and the Red Sea to its west.
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Mandy and Benny both have valid points. It's because of plate tectonics, because of which continents moved. Pangea (single continent) that existed millions and millions of years ago...slowly started dispersing and if you see the movement of india subcontinent, it moved all the way from southern africa and joined asian continent. This must have created a pileup of land that benny is talking about.
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If it was an old map the grid might have related to miles.  Newer maps are in kilometres.  If the map is over printed with the new grid it helps to standardise it.  The features of the area/map have not changed - just the convention of the grid used.
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Wow Sterling I would be happy if boundaries of India are extended till Canada, Brazil or Germany. We always pray to god, give us at least one good neighboring country.
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longitude runs north and south\n\nladitude runs east west\n\nlongituse the lines are longer because the stretch pole to polo\n\nlongitude=long lines
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The word continent is from the Latin "continens" meaning "continuous land."  The prefix "sub-" means "less than."  So subcontinent is a piece of land smaller than a continent.  The term is usually only applied to the region around India or to Greenland.
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Fiji is far away from mainlands in center of Pacific that mabbe reason...But don't b upset in India EVERYONE knows Fiji.U r our Far away brothers after all...
695484
The distance to the center of the earth and most planets is greater at the equator than at the poles. This is due to the spinning of the object on its axis.