Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 141

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.

Of the forty-four landlocked countries in the world, sixteen are in Africa, among them Chad, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Malawi and Lesotho; the colonial boundaries drawn in the nineteenth century are the reason so many African states were left without a coast.

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.

All five are tropical cyclones of the North Indian Ocean, named from the list kept by the WMO/ESCAP Panel on Tropical Cyclones.

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 meridian, which passes near Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh, runs roughly through the middle of the country and was adopted as the standard meridian so that the whole of India could keep one time.

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

The earth's orbit is an ellipse, so its distance from the sun changes through the year; at perihelion, about 3 January, the earth is nearest the sun, which is why the northern winter half of the year is slightly shorter than the summer half.

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

It lies in the Jordan rift valley between Israel and Jordan, more than four hundred metres below sea level, and its extreme salinity, caused by heavy evaporation with no outlet, lets a swimmer float easily.

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

The Ten Degree Channel runs along the tenth parallel of north latitude across the Bay of Bengal and separates the Andaman group in the north from the Nicobar group in the south, which is why the Union Territory is named for both groups.

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.

Reo Purgyil, 6,816 metres, stands in the Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh on the Zanskar range near the border with Tibet, and it is the highest point of the state.

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

National Waterway 2 is the 891 km stretch of the Brahmaputra between Sadiya and Dhubri in Assam. It was declared a national waterway in 1988 and is managed by the Inland Waterways Authority of India, set up in 1986 with its headquarters at Noida.

Bolivia and Paraguay are the only two landlocked states in South America. Paraguay has no coast but reaches the Atlantic along the Paraguay and Parana rivers, which carry most of its trade; Bolivia lost its Pacific coast to Chile in the War of the Pacific of 1879 to 1883.

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.

Eritrea became independent of Ethiopia in 1993 after a long war and took with it the entire Red Sea coast, including the ports of Massawa and Assab, leaving Ethiopia landlocked; Ethiopia is today the most populous landlocked country in the world and routes most of its trade through Djibouti.

Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is the only state in South East Asia without a sea coast; it is bordered by China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar, and the Mekong, which forms much of its western boundary, is its chief waterway and source of hydroelectric power.