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India, with its area of 3.28 million sq km, accounts for 2.4 per cent of the world’s land surface area and stands as the seventh largest country in the world.
Countries around the world select a standard meridian in multiples of 7°30' of longitude. India has chosen 82°30' E as its standard meridian. Hence, the Indian Standard Time is 5 hours and 30 minutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
• There is a variation of nearly 30 degrees, which causes a time difference of nearly two hours be- tween the easternmost and the westernmost parts of our country (A difference of 1° longitude will make a difference of 4 minutes in time. ~30 x 4 = ~120 minutes or ~2 hours).
• India chose to have a single time zone, unlike longitudinally extensive (greater east-west ex- tent) countries such as Canada (6), USA (11), and Russia (11), which have multiple time zones.
• While the sun rises in the northeastern states about two hours earlier compared to Jaisalmer, the
watches in Dibrugarh and Imphal in the east and Jaisalmer, Bhopal, or Chennai in the other parts of India show the same time.
France (12 time zones), the United Kingdom (9), etc., have multiple time zones despite their mainland not being longitudinally extensive. This is because they have multiple overseas ter- ritories, some of which are in regions far away from the mainland.
India has a 15106.7 km land border running through 16 states and 2 UTs. It has a coastline of 7516.6 Km (6100 km of mainland coastline + coastline of 1416.6 Indian islands), touching 9 States and 4 Union Territories (UTs) — Lakshadweep, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Puducherry, and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Barring Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Delhi and Haryana, all other States in the country have one or more international borders or a coastline and can be regarded as frontline States from the point of view of border management.

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