Seven NE States cover how much % of India's land area?

Concept

India’s total geographical area is about 3,287,263 km2 (taken as 100%). The percentage of land any region covers is found as (region’s area ÷ India’s total area) × 100. The “Seven Sisters” of North-East India are Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura (Sikkim is the separate eighth NE state).

Application

Adding the areas of the seven states (in km2):

• Arunachal Pradesh ≈ 83,743

• Assam ≈ 78,438

• Meghalaya ≈ 22,429

• Manipur ≈ 22,327

• Mizoram ≈ 21,081

• Nagaland ≈ 16,579

• Tripura ≈ 10,486

Total ≈ 255,083 km2. Share of India = (255,083 ÷ 3,287,263) × 100 ≈ 7.7%. Among the four offered figures, 7.6% is the value this matches; the other choices are far away.

Cross-check

Summing the individual published state-area percentages (2.55 + 2.39 + 0.68 + 0.68 + 0.64 + 0.50 + 0.32) also gives ≈ 7.7%, confirming the figure independently. Hence the seven NE states together cover roughly 7.6% of India’s land area.