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World Geography (Easy) World Physical Aspects

The following question consists of two statements one labelled as ‘Assestion (A)’ and the other as ‘Reason (R)’. You are to examine these two statements carefully and select the correct answer to this question using the codes given below.

Assertion (A) The percentage of the Earth’s surface covered by India is 2.4%.

Reason (R) On the Mercator’s map of the world, India is shown much smaller than Canada

Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A

Both A and B are true and R is not the correct explanation of A

A is true, but R is false.

A is false, but R is true.

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Explanation:

Both A and R are correct but R ios not the correct explanation of A.

India occupies 2.4 percent of the total land area of the world, but supports 16.7 percent of the world population.
Mercator’s map inadvertently also pumps up the sizes of Europe and North America. Visually speaking, Canada and Russia appear to take up approximately 25% of the Earth’s surface, when in reality they occupy a mere 5%