Country | States and Union Territories | Length in Km |
Pakistan | J&K, Ladakh, Punjab, Rajasthan, Gujarat | 3,323 |
Afghanistan | Ladakh (POK region) | 106 |
China | Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh | 3,488 |
Nepal | Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Sikkim | 1,751 |
Bhutan | Sikkim, West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh | 699 |
Myanmar | Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram | 1,643 |
Bangladesh | West Bengal, Meghalaya, Assam, Tripura, Mizoram | 4,096.7 |
With an area of 32,87,263 square km, India is the seventh largest country in the world.
- India accounts for about 2.4 per cent of the total surface area of the world.
- The Tropic of Cancer passes through the middle of the country dividing it into two latitudinal halves.
- The area to the north of Tropic of Cancer is near twice the area which lies to the south of it.
East-West time difference is nearly 2 hrs. (A difference of 1° longitude will make a difference of 4 minutes in time. ~30 x 4 = ~120 minutes or ~2 hours).
- India has 15106.7 Km of land border running through 17 States.
- Indian has a coastline of 7516.6 Km (6100 km of mainland coastline + coastline of 1197 Indian islands) touching 13 States and Union Territories.
- Barring Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Delhi and Haryana, all other states in the country have one or more international borders or a coastline .
- India's longest border is with Bangladesh while the shortest border is with Afghanistan.
Indo-Nepal Boundary
- Five states of India, namely Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Sikkim touch the Nepalese border with India.
- The border is a porous one with an unrestricted movement of goods and people between Indian and Nepal.
- Major portion of Indo-Nepalese border runs in the east-west direction almost along the foothill of the Shivalik Range.
The Indo-Pakistan boundary is the result of the partition of the country in 1947 under the Radcliffe award of which Sir Cyril Radcliffe was the chairman.
Indo - Myanmar Boundary
- This boundary runs roughly along the watershed between the Brahmaputra and Irrawaddy rivers.
- It passes through thickly forested regions, with Mizo Hills, Manipur and Nagaland on the Indian side and Chin Hills, Naga Hills and Kachin state on the Myanmar side.
India-Sri Lanka Boundary
• India and Sri Lanka are separated from each other by a narrow and shallow sea called Palk Strait.
• Dhanushkodi on the Tamil Nadu coast in India is only 32 km away from Talaimanar in Jaffna peninsula in Sri Lanka. These two points are joined by a group of islets forming Rama Setu (Adam's Bridge).
Border with China
