NCERT Solutions for Class 7th Social Science Chapter 14 India and Her Neighbours
Updated on 2026-09-19
About this chapter
A ‘neighbour’ is more than a country across a land border. By land, India's neighbours are Pakistan and Afghanistan in the northwest, China's region of Tibet , Nepal and Bhutan in the north, and Bangladesh and Myanmar in the east. India's land boundary stretches over 15,100 km through deserts, plains, forests, mountains, marshes and river valleys. But India has always been a maritime nation , sea on three sides — so Sri Lanka and the Maldives are immediate neighbours across the water, and Iran, Oman, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia belong to a wider maritime neighbourhood. The sea is India's oldest highway. With a coastline of about 11,100 km and a peninsula reaching deep into the Indian Ocean, India sits on the routes linking Southeast Asia, West Asia and Africa . The Indian O
- Chapter opening
- Framing the Neighbourhood
- India and Pakistan
- The ‘Land of the Thunder Dragon’
- From Dvārakā to Dvāravatī and Ayodhyā to Ayutthayā
- The ‘Lion City’
- The chapter in four points
- End-of-chapter exercise
Exercises
- Chapter opening — The Big Questions Page 29
- Framing the Neighbourhood — LET’S EXPLORE Page 30
- India and Pakistan — DON’T MISS OUT Page 36
- The ‘Land of the Thunder Dragon’ — In-text Question Page 40
- From Dvārakā to Dvāravatī and Ayodhyā to Ayutthayā — LET’S EXPLORE Page 51
- The ‘Lion City’ — LET’S EXPLORE Page 53
- The chapter in four points — Before we move on … Page 59
- End-of-chapter exercise — Questions and activities Page 60