Question

The landmass of India has an area of ________.
A. 2.38 million sq. km
B. 283 million sq. km
C. 3.28 million sq. km
D. 382 million sq. km

Answer 1

Hint: The landmass area is the surface area occupied by any country out of the total earth’s surface area. As per the latest estimates, the total area of the earth surface is 510 sq. km, so now common sense will easily help us eliminate the impractical options; also some factual knowledge is a must.

Complete answer:
India ranks as the 7th largest country in the world and Russia ranks as the 1st. We shall now analyze the options to reach the appropriate answer; It is a close guess, yet an incorrect choice. The total land area of India i.e., excluding the area occupied by the water bodies is more than 2.38 million square kilometres; it is around 2.98 square kilometres. Therefore, this is the wrong option.

This can be ruled out immediately; when we calculate the percentage of this choice upon the total area of earth’s landmass, we get 55%, i.e. more than half the landmass, which is impractical. Russia is the largest country occupies around 16 million square kilometres so for a country like India which occupies 7th position, it isn’t even possible.

This is the correct option. India’s total landmass is 3.28 million square kilometres out of which the land area is 2.38 million square kilometres while the area occupied by the water bodies is around 300 thousand square kilometres.

The same logic that has been applied in the case of option (b) can be followed here. 382 million square kilometres form a whopping 74% which is nearly three-fourths of the total landmass of the earth. This is an unrealistic figure and has to be omitted. Thus, this is an incorrect choice.

Therefore the correct answer is option (C).

Note:
By careful observation of the options, we could easily reach the answer. India is the 7th largest country in the world (after Russia, Canada, China, USA, Brazil, & Australia) in terms of area and 2nd largest in terms of population (after China) and has the total landmass of 3.28 million square kilometres.