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The ancient land of India portrays a landscape
of vibrant cultural heritage and spiritual mysticism. This
particular section invites you to lose yourself in a journey
through the fascinating lanes of the country, which reflect its
numerous national traits, such as art, national identity
elements, cultural extravaganza, and so on. Living up to its
name, this section houses information on all the elements that
go on to shape this splendid nation called India, and is an
enlightenment zone for anyone who wants to know all about this
spiritual country.
India is
one of the oldest civilizations in the world with a kaleidoscopic variety and
rich cultural heritage. It has achieved multifaceted socio-economic progress
during the last 58 years of its Independence. India has become self-sufficient
in agricultural production, and is now the tenth industrialized country in the
world and the sixth nation to have gone into outer space to conquer nature for
the benefit of the people. It covers an area of 32,87,263 sq km, extending from
the snow-covered Himalayan heights to the tropical rain forests of the south. As
the seventh largest country in the world, India stands apart from the rest of
Asia, marked off as it is by mountains and the sea, which give the country a
distinct geographical entity. Bounded by the Great Himalayas in the north, it
stretches southwards and at the Tropic of Cancer, tapers off into the Indian
Ocean between the Bay of Bengal on the east and the Arabian Sea on the west.
Lying
entirely in the northern hemisphere, the mainland extends between latitudes 8°4'
and 37°6' north, longitudes 68°7' and 97°25' east, and measures about 3,214 km
from north to south between the extreme latitudes and about 2,933 km from east
to west between the extreme longitudes. It has a land frontier of about 15,200
km. The total length of the coastline of the mainland, Lakshadweep Islands, and
the Andaman and Nicobar Islands is 7,516.6 km.
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