Uttar Pradesh Mixed Quiz: Set 1

Uttar Pradesh covers 240,928 square kilometres, about 7.3 per cent of the area of India, which makes it the fourth largest state after Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

After leaving the hills at Haridwar in Uttarakhand, the Ganga enters Uttar Pradesh in Bijnor district and then flows south-east past Kannauj, Kanpur, Prayagraj, Varanasi and Ghazipur before passing into Bihar near Ballia.

This branch strikes the Ganga delta, is turned west by the Himalaya and moves up the Ganga plain, so it reaches eastern Uttar Pradesh about the middle of June and then travels on to the west, which is why the east of the state gets both earlier and heavier rain.

The Ghatampur Thermal Power Project stands at Ghatampur in Kanpur Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh. It is a coal-based plant of three units of 660 MW each, built by Neyveli Uttar Pradesh Power Limited, a joint venture of NLC India Limited and the Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam.

Uttar Pradesh lies between these parallels and between 77 degrees 5 minutes east and 84 degrees 38 minutes east longitude.

The Yamuna, the longest tributary of the Ganga, joins it at Prayagraj, and the meeting place is called the Sangam.

The monsoon current enters from the Bay of Bengal in the south-east and loses moisture as it travels up the plain, so the eastern districts and the Terai of Gorakhpur, Bahraich and Lakhimpur Kheri are the wettest, while Mathura, Agra and the Bundelkhand districts of Jhansi, Jalaun and Banda are…

The standard meridian of India is 82 degrees 30 minutes east, and it passes through Mirzapur district in Uttar Pradesh.

The Gomti rises from Fulhar lake, also called Gomat Taal, in Pilibhit district of the terai belt, flows south-east through Lakhimpur Kheri, Sitapur, Lucknow, Sultanpur and Jaunpur, and joins the Ganga east of Varanasi.

It is a hot, dry and dusty wind that blows from the west over the northern plains in the afternoons of May and early June, pushing the temperature past forty-five degrees Celsius in Agra, Jhansi and Banda and causing heat stroke, and it stops only when the monsoon arrives.

Uttar Pradesh has an international boundary of about 579 kilometres with Nepal along its northern edge, and seven districts stand on it: Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheri, Bahraich, Shrawasti, Balrampur, Siddharthnagar and Maharajganj.

The Ramganga rises in the Kumaon Himalaya, enters the plain through Bijnor and Moradabad, waters Bareilly and the Rohilkhand districts and joins the Ganga near Kannauj.

Western disturbances travel from the Mediterranean across Iran and Pakistan and give the plains a few spells of light rain in December, January and February, exactly when wheat, gram, barley and mustard are standing in the field, so farmers call this shower the golden drops.

Uttar Pradesh is bounded by Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar, which is more neighbours than any other Indian state has.

The Betwa rises on the Vindhyan plateau in Madhya Pradesh, flows north-east across Bundelkhand past Jhansi and Orchha and joins the Yamuna at Hamirpur.

Bhangar is the old alluvium of the higher ground away from the present river channels; it is darker, more clayey and dotted with the lime concretions called kankar, and it is not renewed by fresh silt.

The bhabhar is the narrow belt of coarse gravel, pebbles and boulders laid down by hill streams where they leave the Shivalik hills.

Pachnada, in Etawah district, takes its name from the meeting of five streams, where the Chambal joins the Yamuna along with the Sindh, the Kwari and the Pahuj.

Usar, also called reh, is the saline and alkaline soil of districts such as Raebareli, Unnao, Hardoi, Kanpur and Aligarh, where sodium salts gather on the surface; gypsum, which is calcium sulphate, replaces the sodium on the clay particles with calcium, the sodium is then washed away by drainage, and…

The Gomti rises at Madho Tanda in Pilibhit district, flows past Lucknow and Jaunpur and joins the Ganga in Ghazipur district, so its whole course lies inside Uttar Pradesh.