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Angeles in North America, Rio de Janerio in g Helicopters are extremely useful in most
South America, Durban and Cape Town in inaccessible areas and in time of calamities
Africa, Sydney in Australia, London and for rescuing people and distributing food,
Rotterdam in Europe. water, clothes and medicines.

Important Sea Routes of the World : North g Some of the important airports are Delhi,
Atlantic route which connects North America Mumbai, New York, London, Paris,
with Europe. Mediterranean-Suez-Indian Ocean Frankfurt and Cairo.
route connecting Europe with East Africa, South g Air Services are of two types :
Asia and Australia. Cape of Good Hope route
1. Domestic Airways : Fly within the
was used to connect Western Europe with India,
boundaries of a country.
Far Eastern countries
and Australia.
Major Sea Ports of
India : Mumbai, Kabul
Kandla, Kochi, AFGHANISTAN Srinagar Leh
Chennai, Jammu
Vishakhapatnam, Lahore Kullu
Shimla CHINA
Kolkata. Amritsar
Jalandhar
Chandigarh
PAKISTAN Ludhiana
AIRWAYS Dehradun
Panthnagar Along Pasigha
Daponjo
Delhi
g This is the fastest Tezu
Bikaner
Kathmandu BHUTAN Dibrugari
NEPAL
and most com- Gangtok Guwahati Tezpur
Jaiselmer Jaipur Rampur Lucknow Jorhat
fortable means of Agra Gorakhpur Koch Dimapur
Jodhpur Rai Barielly Gaya Patna Silchar
transportation Kota Allahabad Bihar Imphal
Udaipur Varanasi BANGLADESH Kailashahar
Gwalior Dhaka
and also the most Khajuraho
Guna
Agartala Aizwal
Bhuj Ranchi
expensive due to Kandla I N D I A
Rajkot Ahmedabad Bhopal Jamshedpur Kolkata Chittagong
high cost of fuels. Surat Indore Raurkela
Porbander MYANMAR
Nagpur Raipur
g Air traffic is
adversely affected Bhubneshwar
Aurangabad
Mumbai Ramagundam
by bad weather Pune Nanded Jeypore
B A Y
Warangal
like fog, storms, Vishakhapatnam O F
Ratnagiri
A R A B I A N Hyderabad B E N G A L
etc. S E A Rajahmunday
Vijayawada
g It is the only Bellary
Panaji
mode of trans- A N D M A N
Tirupati REFERENCES
port to reach the L Bengaluru Chennai International route
Domestic route A N D
A
most remote and S Mysooru Airport: Connected by
K
international ight
Nayyeli ( I N D I A )
H
distant areas (INDIA) A Kozhikode Domestic N I C O B A R
D
Coimbatore Thanjavur
especially where E Tiruchchirapalli
W
E
Kochi Madurai
there are no I S L A N D S
P
roads and rail- Thiruvananthapuram SRI
Colombo LANKA
ways. I N D I A N O C E A N
Indian Airways
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