Question

Which of the following countries share the longest land boundary with India?
A. Bangladesh
B. Nepal
C. Bhutan
D. None of the above

Answer 1

Hint: India shares its borders in the north or north west with Nepal, Bhutan, China,Pakistan, Afghanistan and in the east with Bangladesh and Myanmar. India shares water bodies with Indonesia, Maldives and Sri Lanka.

Complete Step by Step answer: Bangladesh shares the largest land border India. It covers an area of 1,43,998 sq km along with a coastline of 580 km. Bangladesh- India border is called the International border. It runs between India and Bangladesh and marks eight divisions of Indian states and Bangladesh.
Assam,Bangladesh, Myanmar, Mizoram and West Bengal of India share the border. Mymensingh, Khulna, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Sylhet, and Chittagong of Bangladesh lie on this border. The Radcliffe line was used to mark the boundary between India and Bangladesh on 17th August 1947. It was named after the architect Sir Cyril Radcliffe who was the pillar of the Indo-Bangladesh partition.
The transportation from India to Bangladesh holds cultural, political as well as historical importance. The Kolkata Dhaka bus route began in 1999. In 2001 a bus service was started to connect Dhaka with Agartala. There are two passenger trains that run from Kolkata to Bangladesh known as Maitreyee and Bandhan express.

Note: Do not confuse ‘nirvana’ with ‘parinirvana’. Lord Buddha attained Nirvana at the age of 35 when he was alive at Bodh Gaya. He is known to have attained Parinirvana after his death at Kushinagar.