SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

Lesotho lies wholly within South Africa and is one of only three countries in the world surrounded by a single neighbour, the other two being San Marino and Vatican City, both inside Italy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kazakhstan is the ninth largest country in the world and by far the largest with no sea coast. Its shore on the Caspian does not change this, because the Caspian is the world's largest lake and has no natural connection with the ocean, so Kazakhstan is counted as landlocked.

A doubly landlocked country is one that is surrounded only by landlocked countries, so at least two international borders must be crossed to reach the sea.

The coastal states of India, counted from the west coast round to the east, are Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal; Gujarat has the longest coastline among them.

A fuse must carry the normal current, so it must conduct, and it must melt quickly when the current becomes too large.

Tungsten is used for the filament because it has the highest melting point of all metals, about 3,422°C, and can glow white-hot without melting.

The Faridabad division, one of the two divisions created after the original four, is made up of these three districts of the south-east of the state, all of which lie in the National Capital Region.

Palwal was separated from Faridabad district in 2008 and became the twenty-first district of Haryana; it now belongs to the Faridabad division along with Faridabad and Nuh.

Yamunanagar is the only district of Haryana that touches Uttarakhand, which it meets in the north-east where the Yamuna leaves the hills and becomes the boundary of the state.

Rao Birender Singh was the first Speaker of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha when the House was constituted in 1966, and he left the chair in 1967 to become Chief Minister, the first non-Congress Chief Minister of the state.

Within four years of its formation Haryana became the first state in India to carry electricity to every one of its villages, in 1970, and the achievement appears in almost every list of the state's firsts.

In the Census of 2011 Faridabad was the most populous district of Haryana and also the most densely peopled, because the district is an industrial city of the National Capital Region rather than a largely rural district.

Charkhi Dadri was carved out of Bhiwani district and notified as the twenty-second district of Haryana on 1 December 2016; both districts now lie in the Rohtak division.

Sirsa, in the south-west of the state on the Punjab and Rajasthan borders, is the largest district of Haryana by area and also the least densely peopled.

Kaithal belongs to the Karnal division along with Karnal and Panipat, and not to the Ambala division. The Ambala division is made up of four districts, Ambala, Kurukshetra, Panchkula and Yamunanagar, so Options A, B and C are all part of it and cannot be the answer.

Mahendragarh is the one district of Haryana whose headquarters does not sit in the town after which the district is named: its administration works from Narnaul, while Mahendragarh town is a tehsil headquarters within the same district.