INDIA

GEOGRAPHY

• India lies on the Indian Plate, the northern portion of the Indo-Australian Plate, whose continental crust forms the Indian subcontinent. The country is situated north of the equator between 6°4' (8°4' for mainland) to 37°6' north latitude and 68°7' to 97°25' east longitude.[2] It is the seventh-largest country in the world, with a total area of 3,287,263 square kilometres (1,269,219 sq mi).
• India measures 3,214 km (1,997 mi) from north to south and 2,933 km (1,822 mi) from east to west. It has a land frontier of 15,200 km (9,445 mi) and a coastline of 7,516.6 km (4,671 mi).[4
• On the south,India projects into and is bounded by the Indian Ocean –- in particular, by the Arabian Sea on the southwest, the Laccadive Sea to the south, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast.

ECONOMY

• India is a land of villages. A large population of India belongs to rural areas. Some of these villages are sparsely populated, while others are densely populated. The physical structure of any rural society is an important aspect of rural sociology.
• This is because it enables us to understand the patterns of settlement adopted by rural people, the spatial distribution of houses and the composition and density of rural population in a particu­lar village. The size of the population and settlement patterns of villagers vary from one village to another, depending upon its ecological and environmental factors and the availability of natural resources.

NATURAL RESOURCES

• India is endowed with different types of natural Resources such as fertile soil, forests, minerals and water. These resources are unevenly distributed. The various types of different Natural Resources of India is discussed below:
• India has a large proportion of well watered fertile lands. In the alluvial soil of the Northern Great Plains of the Sutlej-Ganga plains and Brahmaputra Valley wheat, rice, maize, sugarcane, jute, cotton, rapeseed, mustard, sesumum, linseed, etc. are grown in abundance.