History and Geography

WORKSHEETS
on
Locating Places
on a
Map

Kavita Grover

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Fact sheet
Pre-requisite knowledge/skills:
Locating places on a map with the help of a grid
Learning outcomes: The students will be able to:
Explain the earth grid
Locate places on the map of India
Earth Grid: The longitudes and the longitudes form a network on the earths surface which
helps us in locating places on the map.

Example: Locating places using the grid. Delhi is located at 28.38 N and 77.12 E.
28.38 N means 28.38 degrees latitude, north to the equator, and

21.42 E means 21.42 degrees longitude, east to the prime meridian.

Locate the latitude and the longitude on the margins of the map, and draw line
extending from these points.

The point where these two lines meet on the grid gives us the location of Delhi.

Exercise 1
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1) On the given map of India join the corresponding latitudes and longitudes, and
make a grid.

Answer sheet: The latitudes and longitude should be curved, not straight lines

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Exercise 2
1) On the map of India locate the following cities:
a) Agra: 2717'N 7758'E b) Mumbai :1855'N 7250'E
c) Surat : 2112'N 7255'E d) Amritsar: 3135'N 7457'E
e) Kolkata: 2236'N 8824'E f) Meerut: 2901'N 7742'E
g) Chennai: 1308'N 8019'E h) Goa: 1533'N 7359'E
i) Mausulipatnam: 1745'N j) Calicut: 1115'N 7543'E
8320'E

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Worksheet 3
In the map of India mark the grid where the following cities are located.

1. Agra: 2717'N 7758'E 6. Mumbai :1855'N 7250'E

2. Surat : 2112'N 7255'E 7. Amritsar: 3135'N 7457'E

3. Kolkata: 2236'N 8824'E 8. Meerut: 2901'N 7742'E
4. Chennai: 1308'N 8019'E 9. Goa: 1533'N 7359'E
5. Mausulipatnam: 1745'N 8320'E 10.Calicut: 1115'N 7543'E

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Worksheet 4
1) In the map of India name 5 cities each of the
a) Eastern coast
b) Western coast
c) North India

2) Give the new names of the following cities:

a) Calcutta: c) Bombay:
b) Mausulipatnam: d) Madras:

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1) In the grid map of India locate and name the cities where the important
events of the freedom struggle of India took place.

Event Location Name of city

Sepoy Mutiny 2901'N 7742'E

Jallianwala Bagh 3135'N 7457'E

Massacre
Fort St George 1308'N 8019'E

Fort St. Williams 2236'N 8824'E

Trading centres 2112'N 7255'E

1745'N 8320'E

1855'N 7250'E

Factories 2112'N 7255'E

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East India Company got the Dewani of which 3 states and in which year?
Locate them on the map of India.
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Comprehension/mapreading

1) With the help of the map given below, answer the given question.

Courtesy: http://ambassadors.net/archives/issue19/profile.htm

1. WhendidVascodaGamaleaveforhisjourneytoIndia?

2. Fromwhichportdidheleave?

3. InwhichdirectiondidhetravelfromCapeVerdeIsland?

4. AfterhowmanymonthsofleavingPortugaldidhereachAfrica?

5. WhichotherportsofAfricadidheland?

6. WhendidhereachIndiaandwhichportdidheland?

7. Fromwheredidhestarthisreturnjourney?

8. Writethenamesoftheportshetouchedonhisreturnjourney?

9. WhichwasjourneywaslongertheonetoIndiaorthereturnjourneyto
Portugal?
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Ontheworldmap,marktheportsvisitedbyVascodaGama.

a) Lisbon b) Cape c) Azores d) St.HelenaBay

Verde
Island

e) Mombasa f) Calicut g) Goa h) Mocambique

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History of maps of India

Compare the 4 maps given below showing India under the rule of different rulers. Write a brief
history of Indias freedom struggle.

A) B)

This map shows the location of the Mughal, or Mogul
Empire. Central Asian Muslims established the empire
in 1526. By about 1600, the Mughals controlled most
of what are now north and central India, Afghanistan,
Bangladesh, and Pakistan. The empire lasted until the
1700s.
C)
The British East India Company controlled much of the Indian
subcontinent by the early 1800s. The company had direct control
over most of the northern part of the subcontinent and most of the
coastal areas along the Bay of Bengal.
D)

British India was set up in 1858. The United Kingdom The independent country of India was founded on Aug. 15, 1947,
took over East India Company lands and also had the day after the northwestern and northeastern parts of the Indian
indirect control of the remaining states. subcontinent became the independent country of Pakistan.