{"id":53441,"date":"2021-09-24T07:25:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T07:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=53441"},"modified":"2021-09-24T07:25:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T07:25:49","slug":"location-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/location-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Location of India : Geography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>India is situated in the continent of Asia. It lies completely in the Northern hemisphere and Eastern hemisphere between latitudes 84\u2032 N and 37\u00b06\u2019N and longitudes 68\u00b07\u2032 E and 97\u00b025\u2032 E.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India is divided by Tropic of Cancer 23\u00b030\u2032 N in almost two equal parts. The upper half has a temperate cooler climate and the lower half has a tropical climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Southernmost point of the Indian union is known as \u2018Indira point\u2019, however, that was submerged in 2004 Tsunami.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the south-east of India, Andaman &amp; Nicobar Islands lie in the Bay of Bengal. In southwest Lakshadweep islands lie in the Arabian sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/size-of-india\">Size of India<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/india-and-the-world\">India and the World<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/indias-neighbours\">India&#8217;s Neighbours<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is situated in the continent of Asia. It lies completely in the Northern hemisphere and Eastern hemisphere between latitudes 84\u2032 N and 37\u00b06\u2019N and longitudes 68\u00b07\u2032 E and 97\u00b025\u2032 E. India is divided by Tropic of Cancer 23\u00b030\u2032 N in almost two equal parts. The upper half has a temperate cooler climate and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":53442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761],"tags":[1847,1838],"class_list":["post-53441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upsc-notes","tag-contemporary-india","tag-geography-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53443,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53441\/revisions\/53443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}