Question

Areawise India is the _____________ largest country in the world.
A. Fifth
B. Sixth
C. Seventh
D. Fourth

Answer 1

Hint: India is a large country in area 3,287,263 sq. km (1,269,219 miles). It measures near about 3,500 km (near about 2,000 miles) in the north-south direction and near about 3,000 km (near about 2,000 miles) in the east-west direction.

Complete Answer:
Option A: Brazil is the fifth largest country of the world with an area of 8,514,877 sq. km. Therefore, option A is not the correct answer.
Option B: Australia is the sixth largest country in the world with an area of 7,741,220 sq. km. Therefore, option B is not the correct answer.
Option C: India is located on the Indian Plate in the northern part of the Indo-Australian Plate, on the continental crust of Indian Subcontinent. The country is situated north of the equator extending from $8^\circ 4'$ north to $37^\circ 6'$ north latitude and from $68^\circ 7'$ east to $97^\circ 25'$ east longitude. It covers a total area of 3,287,263 square kilometres (1,269,219 sq mi). It stretches for 3,214 km (1,997 mi) from north to south and for 2,933 km (1,822 mi) from east to west. It has a land frontier that measures 15,200 km (9,445 mi) and a coastline that measures 7,516.6 km (4,671 mi). India ranks seventh in terms of area among the countries of the world.
Option D: China is the fourth largest country of the world with an area of 9,596,961 sq. km. Therefore, option D is not the right answer.
Hence, from the above analysis it can be seen that option ‘C. Seventh’ is the correct option.

Note: This large country of India presents a unity in diversity as this country is an amalgamation of many languages, cultures, traditions varying due to many geographic factors. Before independence, the area of India was even larger but after partition the area has become much smaller in size.