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India’s share of Earth’s surface: Estimate the percentage of Earth’s total surface area covered by India. Use India’s total area ≈ 3.28 million km² and Earth’s surface area ≈ 510 million km². Choose the closest value.

Difficulty: Medium

Correct Answer: 0.64% (approximately)

Explanation:

Given

  • India area ≈ 3.28 × 106 km²
  • Earth surface area ≈ 5.10 × 108 km²

CalculationPercentage = (3.28 × 106 / 5.10 × 108) × 100= (3.28 / 510) × 100 ≈ 0.643% ≈ 0.64%

NoteIndia’s share of world land area is ≈ 2.4%, but of Earth’s total surface it is ≈ 0.64%.

Final Answer≈ 0.64%.

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