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Location of Places

Look at the drawing given below.

Your friend has to reach her home. She should follow the route

indicated by the arrows in the drawing.

This drawing is called a map. In the map, different symbols have
been used for marking the school, bank, park and home. These

symbols helps us to locate the places on a map.

School

Home

Park
Bank

The word NEWS is the short form of the four directions North, East, West
and South.

Directions in a Map

In a map, it is very easy to find out the
Ladakh
Srinagar
directions. Look at the picture of the
Shimla
map given below. Chandigarh Dehradun
Gangtok ARUNACHAL PRADESH
Itanagar
Jaipur Lucknow NAGALAND
g The top shows north. DIspur ASSAM Kohima
MEGHALAYA
Shillong
Patna
Imphal
MANIPUR
Gandhinagar Bhopal TRIPURA Aizawl
g The bottom shows south. Ranchi Kolkata MIZORAM
Agartala
Raipur
g The right side is east. WEST Mumbai Odisha BHUBANESHWAR
g The left side is west. Panaji
Bengaluru Chennai
Directions are shown in the same Mahe PUNDUCHERRY
Karaikal
pattern in all the maps. THRIVANANTHAPURAM
Kanniyakumari

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