Which is the largest country that the equator passes through?

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What is the capital city of Africa?

What is the smallest country the equator passes through?

The island nation of the Maldives is the smallest country on the Equator, coming in at just over one hundred square miles, located in the Indian… See full answer below.

What is the largest African country crossed by the equator?

Equatorial Guinea

Does Equator pass through India?

There is no Equator going via India. India isnorth to the equator. But in India, the Tropic of Cancer travels via eight states. Was this answer helpful?

Is India above the equator?

India is situated north of the equator between 8°4′ north (the mainland) to 37°6′ north latitude and 68°7′ east to 97°25′ east longitude.

What countries touch the equator?

The Equator passes through 13 countries: Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Sao Tome & Principe, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Maldives, Indonesia and Kiribati. At least half of these countries rank among the poorest in the world.

Which country is in the middle of the Earth?

2003 calculation of the geographical center of all land surfaces on Earth: İskilip, Turkey. The geographical center of Earth is the geometric center of all land surfaces on Earth.

Which Indian city is nearest to Equator?

Considering mainland India, it is Kanyakumari or Cape Comorin which is the closest to the Equator.

Is Delhi near equator?

New Delhi, is 28 degrees north to the position of the equator, Hence it is not possible to have a geostationary satellite directly over Delhi.

Does equator pass through Chennai?

Chennai lies on the thermal equator and is also coastal, which prevents extreme variation in seasonal temperature. For most of the year, the weather is hot and humid.

Is India south of the equator?

India is situated north of the equator between 8°4′ north to 37°6′ north latitude and 68°7′ to 97°25′ east longitude. It is the seventh-largest country in the world, with a total area of 3,287,263 square kilometres (1,269,219 sq mi).

Who guards India in the north?

The Indian Coast Guard organisation is headed by the Director-General (DG ICG) who is located at Coast Guard Headquarters (CGHQ), New Delhi.
Leadership and organisation.

Which hemisphere is Singapore in?

Singapore is an island country located off the coast of the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula in Southeast Asia, between the Indian Ocean and South China Sea. It is located in both Northern and Eastern hemispheres of the Earth.

Which hemisphere is China in?

China is part of the northern and eastern hemispheres, placing the country well above the equator.

What hemisphere is USA in?

The United States, for example, is in both the Northern and Western hemispheres and Australia is in the Southern and Eastern hemispheres.

What hemisphere is Australia?

Southern Hemisphere

The Southern Hemisphere contains most of South America, one-third of Africa, Australia, Antarctica, and some Asian islands.

Which hemisphere is located in India?

Northern hemisphere

India is a vast country. Lying entirely in the Northern hemisphere (Figure 1.1) the main land extends between latitudes 8°4’N and 37°6’N and longitudes 68°7’E and 97°25’E.

What Tropic runs through Australia?

The Tropic of Capricorn is the dividing line between the Southern Temperate Zone to the south and the tropics to the north.

Which hemisphere has more water than land?

The Mollwiede projection of Earth shows that there is more landmass in the Northern Hemisphere than in the Southern Hemisphere. While perhaps not obvious just at a glance, the Northern Hemisphere’s surface is about 40% landmass and is covered by about 60% water in the Northern Hemisphere.

Which Tropic passes through the middle of India?

Tropic of Cancer

Tropic of Cancer is an imaginary line that is at an angle of 23.50 degrees. It is North of the Equator, which passes through the middle of India.

What passes through the middle of Saudi Arabia?

1 The Tropic of Cancer is located at 23.5 degrees north of the equator and runs through Mexico, the Bahamas, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India, and southern China.

Which river crosses the Equator twice in India?

The Chambeshi is a tributary of the Lualaba River, which flows for 1,800 kilometres upstream of Boyoma Falls. The Congo River is 4,370 kilometres long when combined with the Lualaba, its largest tributary. It is the only big river in the world to pass across the equator twice.

How many imaginary lines pass India?

Tropic of Cancer is an imaginary line, at an angle of 23.50 degrees North from the Equator, that passes through the middle of India. If you run this imaginary line around Earth (Yes, Flat-Earthlings, the Earth is spherical), it passes through 17 countries, India being one of them.

Which state of India has largest area?

Area of India : 3,287,240 Sq km.*

How many states are in India?

28 states

There are 28 states and 8 Union territories in the country. Union Territories are administered by the President through an Administrator appointed by him/her. From the largest to the smallest, each State/ UT of India has a unique demography, history and culture, dress, festivals, language etc.