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World Geography

World Map
Basic Information
• Water : 71%
• Mostly salty water
• Just 1 % in the form of fresh water

• Land: 29%
• In the form of continents
Continents
• Asia
• Africa
• North America
• South America
• Europe
• Australia
• Antarctica
Oceans
• Pacific
• Atlantic
• Indian
• Southern
• Arctic
Latitudes and longitudes
• Latitudes : Horizontal line
How to find direction?
• Total angles = 360
• Circumference of Earth = 2π R
• Radius of earth = 6371km
• So. C= 2× 22÷7 × 6371

• C= 40000
• Exact: 40075
• So. 40000÷ 360
• 111.11 km so 112 km. 1⁰ latitude =112km
Earth moves by 2 ways
• 1) Rotation
• 23 hrs, 56 min and 4 sec
• Days and Nights are due to rotation
• Earth rotates from west to east .

• 2) Revolution
• In 365 days and 6 hours
• Years and seasons are due to revolution
Longitudes
• Vertical lines or meridian

• 0⁰ longitude= prime meridian or GM-T line.

• Prime meridian passes through 8 countries.


• UK , France, Spain ,Algeria , Mali, burgina fuso ,Togo and Ghana
• Total angles = 360⁰

• Total times earth rotates= 24 hrs


24× 60 = 1440 min
1440÷ 360= 4 min
1⁰ longitude = 4 min
Equatorial countries
• Equator pass through 13 countries .
• Total 4 continents
• 1) south America = 3 countries
• Equator
• Columbia
• Brazil
• 2) Asia = 2 countries
• Indonesia
• Maldives
• 3 ) Africa = 7 countries
• Sai Tomi
• Gaboon
• Republic of Congo
• Democratic republic of Congo
• Uganda
• Kenya
• Somalia
• 4) Australia = kiribati
Islands
• 1) Greenland : Largest
2) Papua New Guinea
3) Borneo Island
• Have 3 countries
• 1) Indonesia
• 2) Malaysia
• 3) Brunei Darus Salam
4) Madagascar
• In Africa
• In Indian ocean
Straits
• 1) Bosporus strait
• Narrowest strait in the world
• Joins black sea and sea of Marmara
• Separates Turkey and Istanbul
2) Malacca strait
• Longest strait in the world
• 800km
• Join Pacific ocean with
• Indian ocean
• Separate Indonesia and
• Malaysia
3) Mozambique strait
• Broadest strait in the world
• Separates Mozambique and Madagascar
• In Africa
• In Indian ocean

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