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�WELCOME TO �SOCIAL SCIENCE�POWER POINT PRESENTATION �

CLASS: VI

TOPIC

OUR COUNTRY-INDIA

(TEXT BOOK: The Earth: Our Habitat)

PREPARED BY

SHAIK KAREEM BASHA

TGT-SOCIAL SCIENCE

JNV RANGAREDDY

TELANGANA STATE

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PERIOD-1 begins�GLIMPSES OF INDIA

  • India is a Peninsula
  • It’s area is 3.28 million Square Kilometres
  • The extension of India from Kashmir to Kanyakumari is 3,200 kilometres and 2,900 kilometres from Arunachal pradesh to Kuchchh
  • It is second most populous country of the world after China.

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THE PRESENT POPULATION OF CHINA IS� 143 CRORES

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THE PRESENT POPULATION OF INDIA IS� 138 CRORES

CHINA

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LOCATIONAL SETTING OF INDIA

  • India is located in the Northern Hemisphere
  • Tropic of Cancer(23°30N) passes halfway through India
  • From south to north India extends between 8°4’N and 37°6’N latitudes and …….
  • From west to east India extends between 68°7’E and 97° 25’E longitudes

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INDIAN STANDARD MERIDIAN(IST)

  • The local time changes by FOUR MINUTES for every ONE DEGREE of Longitude.
  • The Sun rises 2 hours earlier in the East(Arunachal Pradesh) than in the West(Gujarat)
  • The local time of the Longitude of 82°30’E is taken as the Indian Standard Time