SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

These districts, with Jalaun, Hamirpur and Chitrakoot, form the Bundelkhand upland in the south-west of the state. It is built of ancient granite and gneiss, has thin soil and bare hillocks, is drained by the Betwa and the Ken, and is the most drought-prone part of Uttar Pradesh.

Uttar Pradesh is landlocked, so it can have no coastal plain at all. The state is divided into three physical regions only: the Bhabhar and Terai belt in the north, the Ganga plain in the middle and the southern plateau and hills beyond the Yamuna.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The Luni is the main river of western Rajasthan. It rises in the Naga hills near Ajmer, runs about 495 kilometres to the south-west through the Godwar belt and empties into the Rann of Kutch.

The Aravalli runs diagonally from the south-west to the north-east and splits Rajasthan into two unequal parts: roughly three-fifths of the state lies west of the range, in the sandy plain and the Thar, and about two-fifths lies to its east, in the plains and the plateau.

The south-eastern plateau of Rajasthan has two parts: the Vindhyan scarpland of sandstone and the Deccan lava plateau, which is the Malwa plateau of basalt continuing into Rajasthan.

Sambhar is the largest saline lake of Rajasthan and of India, lying in the inland drainage tract on the eastern edge of the desert, where the Mendha and the Rupangarh end their course.

The Great Boundary Fault runs along the Chambal valley in south-eastern Rajasthan and separates the Vindhyan rocks of the Hadoti plateau from the much older Aravalli system to its west.

Rajasthan touches five states, and of them Madhya Pradesh, lying to the south-east, shares the longest common boundary. The two states meet along the Chambal and the Hadoti country, which is why the Chambal ravines and the Deccan lava plateau continue from one state into the other.

Rajasthan has an international boundary with Pakistan about 1,070 kilometres long, the longest held by any Indian state, and Jaisalmer accounts for the greatest part of it, roughly 464 kilometres.

Guru Shikhar rises to 1,722 metres on the Abu hills, an outlying block of the Aravalli in Sirohi district, and is the highest point both of Rajasthan and of the whole Aravalli system.

The Tropic of Cancer touches Rajasthan only at its southern extremity and crosses Banswara district near Kushalgarh. This is why the state is described as lying almost wholly in the sub-tropical zone, even though it is often grouped with the tropical states of western India.

Rajasthan lies between these parallels and between 69 degrees 30 minutes east and 78 degrees 17 minutes east longitude, which places the whole state in the north-western, sub-tropical part of India, with only its southern tip in Banswara touching the Tropic of Cancer.

Rajasthan covers 342,239 square kilometres, about 10.4 per cent of the area of India, and it has been the largest state of the country since Madhya Pradesh was divided and Chhattisgarh created in November 2000.