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India — A General Introduction - Short Trick

Position, extremes, neighbours, boundary lines, channels and coast — one sentence each

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  • Guru Ram Each coloured word = one name in the list, shown below in the same colour
  • Panda Two colours in one word = two names
  • ➜ Order the numbered order matters · ⇄ Any order no order
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Location, Extremes and Records

Countries larger than India, its extreme points, the highest and lowest places, and the largest and smallest.

Trick 1

Countries larger than India

➜ largest first — India is 7th

Ruby carried uncle’s chilli bread to aunty’s Indian kitchen.

  1. 1Russia171 lakh sq km
  2. 2Canada99.8
  3. 3United States98.3
  4. 4China96
  5. 5Brazil85.2
  6. 6Australia77
  7. 7India32.9 — 7th

India’s area is 3,287,263 sq km — 2.4% of the world’s land · first in population (since April 2023).

Pairs

India’s extreme points — where they are

6 sentences

Cola with laddoos

Indira Col=Northern tip (India as administered) — Ladakh

Pointing down to Nicobar

Indira Point=Southern tip of the whole country — Great Nicobar · earlier Pygmalion / Parsons Point

Kajal sings with Tamanna.

Kanniyakumari=Southern tip of the mainland — Tamil Nadu

Gulab from the guru

Guhar Moti=Western tip — Gujarat (Kachchh)

Kite for Arun

Kibithu=Eastern tip — Arunachal Pradesh

Donut for Arun at sunrise

Dong village (Anjaw district)=India’s first sunrise — Arunachal Pradesh

On the official map the northernmost latitude, 37°6′ N, falls in the PoK (Gilgit-Baltistan) area; the northernmost point India administers is Indira Col.

Pairs

Highest and lowest

3 sentences

Kanchan climbs with her sister.

Kanchenjunga=Highest peak in undisputed India — Sikkim (8,586 m)

Nanda meets Uttara.

Nanda Devi=Highest peak lying wholly inside India — Uttarakhand (7,816 m)

Kutty’s kettle sank low.

Kuttanad=Lowest place — Kerala (about 2 m below sea level) · “the Netherlands of India”

Highest of all is K2 (Godwin Austen, 8,611 m) — in the PoK part of the Karakoram.

Pairs

Largest and smallest

5 sentences

The big Raja loves a small goat.

Rajasthan · Goa=Largest state by area — Rajasthan · smallest — Goa

A big laddoo for little Lakshmi

Ladakh · Lakshadweep=Largest Union Territory — Ladakh · smallest — Lakshadweep

A big kangaroo carried little Mahi.

Kachchh (Gujarat) · Mahe (Puducherry)=Largest district — Kachchh · smallest — Mahe

Uttam lost his sister in the crowd.

Uttar Pradesh · Sikkim=Most populous state — Uttar Pradesh · least populous — Sikkim

Uttam has many neighbours but his sister and Megha have one each.

Uttar Pradesh · Sikkim · Meghalaya=Borders the most states — Uttar Pradesh · only one state each — Sikkim and Meghalaya

Sonbhadra (Uttar Pradesh) is the one district touching four states — Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand.

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Standard Time and the Tropic

The states the standard meridian crosses, and the eight states on the Tropic of Cancer.

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Special Lists of States

States with neither a coast nor an international border, and Puducherry’s scattered pieces.

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Land Border and Neighbours

The seven land neighbours by border length, the states touching three countries, each neighbour’s longest and shortest state border, and the boundary lines.

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Maritime Zones and Channels

How far the three maritime zones reach, and which channel lies between what.

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Coast and Islands

The nine coastal states in coastal order, the four coastal UTs, Lakshadweep’s sub-groups, renamed islands and the volcanoes.

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