Which is the largest national park in India by area?
- A.Jim Corbett National Park
- B.Hemis National Park
- C.Kaziranga National Park
- D.Gir National Park
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Hemis National Park. Hemis lies in eastern Ladakh, in high cold desert country, and is the largest national park in India by area. It is best known as a stronghold of the snow leopard, and it also holds the Tibetan wolf, the bharal or blue sheep and the Asiatic ibex.
Option A, Jim Corbett in Uttarakhand, is the oldest national park in India and the place where Project Tiger was launched, but it is far smaller. Option C, Kaziranga in Assam, is a World Heritage Site famous for the one-horned rhinoceros and for its grasslands along the Brahmaputra. Option D, Gir in Gujarat, is the only natural home of the Asiatic lion. Each of the four is a park a paper setter likes to name, so the distinction being tested here is size, not fame.
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Practice Questions
View allWhich is the highest mountain peak located in India?
- A.Nanda Devi
- B.Kangchenjunga
- C.Anamudi
- D.Doda Betta
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Kangchenjunga rises to 8,586 metres on the border of Sikkim with Nepal and is the third highest mountain in the world after Mount Everest and K2.
Read the full explanation →Anamudi, the highest peak of peninsular India, is located in which state?
- A.Karnataka
- B.Tamil Nadu
- C.Kerala
- D.Maharashtra
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Anamudi stands 2,695 metres high in the Idukki district of Kerala, in the Anaimalai hills of the Western Ghats, close to Eravikulam National Park, which protects the Nilgiri tahr.
Read the full explanation →Which is the largest state of India by area?
- A.Madhya Pradesh
- B.Maharashtra
- C.Uttar Pradesh
- D.Rajasthan
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Rajasthan is the largest state of India by area, holding the Thar desert in its west and the Aravalli range running across it from the south-west to the north-east.
Read the full explanation →Which is the largest freshwater lake in India?
- A.Chilika Lake
- B.Wular Lake
- C.Sambhar Lake
- D.Vembanad Lake
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Wular Lake lies in the Kashmir valley in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, is fed by the Jhelum and is the largest freshwater lake in India.
Read the full explanation →Majuli, the largest river island in India, lies on which river?
- A.Ganga
- B.Brahmaputra
- C.Godavari
- D.Mahanadi
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Majuli lies in the Brahmaputra in Assam and is the largest river island in India. It is inhabited, it has been made a district of Assam, and it is famous for the satras, the Vaishnava monasteries founded in the tradition of Srimanta Sankardeva.
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