GK
INDIAN GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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Palk Strait
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Gulf of Mannar
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Red Sea
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Bay of Bengal
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Suez Canal links the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, making it the quickest sea route from Europe to Asia. It has been one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes since its completion in 1869. Through both the Cape of Good Hope and the Suez Canal, India is linked to Europe, North America, and South America.
Detailed explanation-2: -The European-Asian sea route, commonly known as the sea route to India or the Cape Route, is a shipping route from the European coast of the Atlantic Ocean to Asia’s coast of the Indian Ocean passing by the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Agulhas at the southern edge of Africa.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Red Sea is part of the sea roads between Europe, the Persian Gulf and East Asia, and as such has heavy shipping traffic.
Detailed explanation-4: -The sea separates the coasts of Egypt, Sudan, and Eritrea to the west from those of Saudi Arabia and Yemen to the east. Its maximum width is 190 miles, its greatest depth 9, 974 feet (3, 040 metres), and its area approximately 174, 000 square miles (450, 000 square km).