General Studies - Did You Know?

The 1st real map was made in Babylon around 2300 BC, over 4000 years ago!Since no one knew the extent of the earth, early maps were not accurate  at all.

The equator is also called the Great Circle. If you travelled all along the equator, i.e., along the circumference of the earth, you would travel a distance of 40,075 km!

The International Date Line marks the place where each day officially begins. The west side of the dateline is always one day ahead of the east side, no matter what time of day it is when the lie is crossed. This is because the earth rotates eastward on its axis.

Longitude is pronounced lonjitude. Greenwich is pronounced Grenich.

The equator is the imaginary line that cuts the earth into an upper half and a lower half. Each half is called a hemisphere.

India's land boarder in the north of our country is over 15,000 km long!