Is India entirely in the hot zone? Answer: Southern part of India is in hot zone such as Karla, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh are the hot zone states while upper half of India is in north temperate zone.
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The Torrid Zone includes southern Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, northern South America (larger parts of Brazil, Guyana, Caribbean South America, the Andean states and the northern tip of the Southern Cone), Sudan and the southern regions of Western Sahara, Algeria, Libya and Egypt, West Africa, Central …
The ‘national capital of India’, Delhi is known as the Torrid Zone. Explanation: A hot zone is a place also known as a tropic, meaning it is 5 degrees “north and south of the equator”.
The tropical zone or hot zone lies between 23½°N and 23½°S. At EVERY place in this zone, the sun is vertical at least once a year. In the above question, the three cities, namely Chennai, Nagpur and Mumbai fall under this definition and are thus in the Torrid Zone.
While the northern part of India is in the temperate zone, the southern part of India is in the hot zone.
India is located north of the equator between latitude 8°4’N to 37°6’N and longitude 68°7′ to 97°25’E. It is the seventh largest country in the world with a total area of 3,287,263 square kilometers (1,269,219 sq mi).
c. Kolkata: Kolkata is near the sea and lies below the Tropic of Cancer and above the equator, which places it in the Tropical zone.
In India (Bansal & Minke, 1988) had carried out detailed studies and reported that India can be divided into six climate zones, namely hot and dry, warm and humid, temperate, cold and cloudy , cold and sunny and composed.
If you look at the zone map of India, you can verify that India is divided into six zones namely North Zone, South Zone, East Zone, West Zone, Central Zone and Northeast Zone. All these zones include 28 states and 8 union territories. Each zone consists of a certain number of states and union territories.
Eight countries have land in the cold zone: the United States, Canada, Russia, Iceland, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Greenland, which is part of Denmark.
Some countries like Canada, some regions in China, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Sweden, the United States etc. are in the temperate zone.
Notes: The hot zone lies between the Tropic of Cancer 23.5 degrees north and the Tropic of Capricorn 23.5 degrees south. Of the options given in this question, Jaipur is at latitude 26.9°N, which is in the temperate zone.
Is India entirely in the hot zone? Answer: Southern part of India is in hot zone like Karla, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh are the hot zone states while upper half of India is in north temperate zone.
The Indian states that fall within the temperate zone are the north belt states of India such as Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir etc.
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