{"id":2575,"date":"2024-06-06T18:12:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T18:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/odeacademy.in\/?p=2575"},"modified":"2025-07-26T04:16:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T04:16:42","slug":"geography-notes-for-competitive-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thequickknowledge.com\/exam\/geography-notes-for-competitive-exams\/","title":{"rendered":"Geography &#8211; Notes for Competitive Exams | General Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Complete Geography Notes<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Location and Area<\/b><\/p>\n<p>India is Lying entirely in the Northern hemisphere (Figure 1.1) the main land extends between latitudes 8\u00b04&#8217;N and 37\u00b06&#8217;N and longitudes 68\u00b07&#8217;E and 97\u00b025&#8217;E.<\/p>\n<p>The land mass of India has an area of 3.28 million km\u00b2 (32,87,263 sq. km\u00b2).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>India\u2019s total area accounts for about 2.4 per cent of the total geographical area of the world.<\/li>\n<li>India is the seventh largest country of the world after Russia, Canada, USA, China, Brazil, Australia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to 2011 census,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The population of India was About 121 crores which is 17.5% of the world&#8217;s population. The mainland of India stretches 3214 km from north to south and 2933 km from east to west.<\/li>\n<li>India has a land boundary of about 15,200 km and the total length of the coastline of the mainland, including Andaman and Nicobar and Lakshadweep, is 7,516.6 km.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From Gujarat to Arunachal Pradesh, there is a time lag of two hours. Hence, time along the Standard Meridian of India (82\u00b030&#8217;E) passing through Mirzapur (in Uttar Pradesh) is taken as the standard time for the whole country.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>For more Please visit Our YouTube Channel <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>@ODEAcademy \u25b6\ufe0f<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Related Links<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thequickknowledge.com\/exam\/?p=3541&amp;preview=true\">General Studies MCQs for Competitive Exams<\/a> \ud83d\udd17<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thequickknowledge.com\/exam\/general-studies\/\">General Studies Complete Study Material for Competitive Exams<\/a> \ud83d\udd17<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thequickknowledge.com\/exam\/general-science\/\">General Science<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thequickknowledge.com\/exam\/study-materials\/\">Study Materials<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thequickknowledge.com\/exam\/current-affairs\/\">Current Affairs<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thequickknowledge.com\/exam\/practice-questions\/\">Practice Questions<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>For More Updates ! Join ODEAcademy <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VbB3TFEI1rcs7QmbSv2H\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">WhatsApp <\/span><\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/ODEAcademy\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Telegram <\/span><\/span><\/a>Channel<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Complete Geography Notes Location and Area India is Lying entirely in the Northern hemisphere (Figure 1.1) the main land extends between latitudes 8\u00b04&#8217;N and 37\u00b06&#8217;N and longitudes 68\u00b07&#8217;E and 97\u00b025&#8217;E. The land mass of India has an area of 3.28 million km\u00b2 (32,87,263 sq. km\u00b2). India\u2019s total area accounts for about 2.4 per cent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-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":"","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-5)","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-5)","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-5)","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":[141,145],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-2575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-studies","category-geography","tag-general-studies-notes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thequickknowledge.com\/exam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thequickknowledge.com\/exam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thequickknowledge.com\/exam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thequickknowledge.com\/exam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thequickknowledge.com\/exam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2575"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thequickknowledge.com\/exam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3570,"href":"https:\/\/thequickknowledge.com\/exam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions\/3570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thequickknowledge.com\/exam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thequickknowledge.com\/exam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thequickknowledge.com\/exam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}