Geography Where are we?

To understand India’s location in the world map, let’s first find out where Rishi Valley School is located on the Indian map. Rishi Valley school is in , which is in the . The Chittoor district is in , which is in South India. India How was India formed? The Indian subcontinent was formed when the island of India collided with the mainland of Asia millions of years ago. Watch this video patiently and carefully while looking at the map to understand what is meant by India being an island. Where is India on the world map?

The land of India India has displays great many of the physical major variation. physical Geographically, features of this region the earth like constitutes one mountains, of the most plains, ancient land deserts, masses on the plateaus and earth surface. islands. India is a vast country and located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere . Note : For practical reasons scientists have divided the Globe of the earth into four parts : 1. Northern Hemisphere 2. Southern Hemisphere 3. Western Hemisphere 4. Eastern Hemisphere The size of India

India is the seventh largest country in the world. Just to compare..

You know that India is about 13 times bigger than the United Kingdom and nine times the size of Japan. Oceans surrounding India

The southern part of India is surrounded by three oceans. The Indian Ocean is in the south of India, on the west coast of India is the Arabian Sea and on the eastern side is the Bay of Bengal. India - length and breadth

India stretches from Kashmir to Kanyakumari (North to South) and from Gujarat to Arunachal Pradesh(West to East) covering thousands of kilometers of length and breadth. Indian Neighbours

India shares its land boundaries with Pakistan and Afghanistan in the Our southern northwest, China neighbours across (Tibet), Nepal and the sea are two Bhutan in the island countries, Sri North and Lanka and the Myanmar and Maldives. Bangladesh in the east. India has had strong geographical and historical links with her neighbours. Do some research and look at the physical map of asia and find out how India stands apart from the rest of asia.