General Knowledge - Indian Geography - Discussion

The tropic of cancer moved from India and also Jarkhand.

Tropic of the cancer is situated north of Kanyakumari whereas equator is south to Kanyakumari.

Indira point at Andaman Nicobar island.

Tropic of Cancer lies at 23.50 degree North. Agartala, the capital of Tripura and Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram, lies to just north of Tropic of cancer which has a latitude of - 23.51 N and 23.36 N respectively.

Following are the latitudes of other cities/ states through which the tropic of cancer passes in India.

Gandhinagar (Gujrat) - 23.10 N.
Jaipur (Rajasthan) - 26.55 N.
Bhopal (M.P) - 23.16 N.
Raipur (Chattisgarh) - 21.16 N.
Ranchi (Jharkhand) - 23.11 N.
Kolkata (W.B) - 22.34 N.
Agartala (Tripura) - 23.51 N.
Aizawl (Mizoram) - 23.36 N.

North to the equator is the right answer.

What is capricorn ?

yes its right

The location of kanyakumari is as follows:

South of tropic of cancer.
North of tropic of capricorn as well as of equator.

Kanyakumari exists in top of the equator, which is well known by most of the people

Kanyakumari is in the north of the equator but does not belong to the equator.