Geography GK Questions with Answers – Page 2

The Tharu are a tribe of the Terai, the foothill belt along the Nepal border, and live mainly in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, not in Madhya Pradesh.

At about 1,684 km, the Kolkata–Chennai arm along the east coast is the longest of the four sides of the Golden Quadrilateral.

Warm sea water, moist air and an unstable atmosphere are the conditions a tropical cyclone needs in order to be born.

The Mekong river ends in a vast delta in southern Vietnam, where it splits into many channels before entering the South China Sea.

Dolomite is a sedimentary rock, not an igneous one; it forms from layers of carbonate deposits laid down in water.

Among the four states given, Tamil Nadu has by far the longest coastline, stretching from Pulicat Lake in the north to Kanyakumari in the south.

India stretches across about 30 degrees of longitude, and every degree makes a difference of four minutes in local time.

Jharkhand has railway divisions such as Ranchi and Dhanbad, but no zonal headquarters. Indian Railways is organised into zones, each headed by a General Manager, and every zone is split into divisions.

The Dhanbad-Jamshedpur region is known for coal, iron and steel, not cotton textiles. Cotton mills grew where raw cotton, a humid climate, capital, cheap power and markets came together.

The Volga flows into the Caspian Sea, not the Black Sea. The Volga, about 3,530 km long, is the longest river in Europe.

Havelock Island was renamed Swaraj Dweep, but the names given for Ross Island and Neil Island have been swapped. On 30 December 2018 Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced new names for three islands of the Andaman and Nicobar group at Port Blair.

The India State of Forest Report 2021 placed Madhya Pradesh first in India by total forest cover in area. The report is prepared every two years by the Forest Survey of India, Dehradun, under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, using satellite data.

Mercury is both the smallest and the least massive of the eight planets, with only about 5.5 per cent of the mass of the Earth.

Lithuania lies on the Baltic Sea to the north of Belarus, and Belarus separates it completely from Ukraine.

Odisha holds the largest share of India's bauxite reserves and almost all of its chromite, making it the leading state for both minerals.

The Ganga rises on the Indian side of the Great Himalaya, at the Gangotri glacier in Uttarakhand, while the Indus, the Satluj and the Brahmaputra all rise beyond the Himalaya in Tibet.

This statement is wrong: Shola forests grow in the high hills of South India, in the Western Ghats, not in the Himalaya.

Indian monsoon rain is shaped by relief, varies widely by region and season, and falls in heavy bursts, but its onset and withdrawal are not regular.

A wind gap has nothing to do with wind, despite its name. It is a notch or gap in a ridge through which a river once flowed; when that river's headwaters were captured by another stream, the gap was left dry.

Panchmuli Lake lies in the Sardar Sarovar reservoir area on the Narmada at Ekta Nagar (Kevadia) in the Narmada district of Gujarat, close to the Statue of Unity, and is known for its boat rides and crocodiles.