Haryana GK Questions 2026

The Sahibi rises in the Aravalli hills of Rajasthan, flows north-east across Rewari and Gurugram and ends in the Najafgarh jheel on the Haryana-Delhi border; from there the Najafgarh drain carries its water into the Yamuna.

Bhindawas lies in Jhajjar district and is a man-made wetland fed by drainage and canal water. It is the largest wetland in Haryana, is an important wintering ground for waterbirds, and in 2021 it was listed as a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention along with Sultanpur.

Sultanpur National Park lies in Gurugram district, near Sultanpur village on the Gurugram-Jhajjar road, and it is a shallow seasonal wetland that fills in the monsoon and draws large numbers of migratory waterbirds on the Central Asian Flyway.

Adi Badri lies at the foot of the Shivaliks in Yamunanagar district, and tradition holds it to be the place where the Saraswati came down to the plain.

Most scholars identify the Ghaggar, with its dry continuation the Hakra in Rajasthan and Pakistan, with the Saraswati of the Rigveda, and the neighbouring Chautang with the Drishadvati.

The Ghaggar rises in the Shivalik hills of Himachal Pradesh and comes into Haryana through Panchkula district in the extreme north-east, then turns south-west across Ambala, Kaithal, Fatehabad and Sirsa before passing into Rajasthan as the Hakra.

The Hathnikund barrage stands on the Yamuna in Yamunanagar district, where the river leaves the hills, and it replaced the older Tajewala headworks a short distance upstream.

The Yamuna comes down from Yamunotri, enters Haryana near Kalesar in Yamunanagar district and flows south along the eastern boundary of the state with Uttar Pradesh and Delhi.

A low, almost imperceptible divide runs through Haryana, roughly from the Shivalik near Ambala and Kurukshetra down to the Aravalli ridge near Delhi.

The commission headed by Justice J. C. Shah was appointed in 1966 to work out the division of Punjab, and on its recommendation the Hindi-speaking districts were formed into Haryana, the hill districts went to Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh became a union territory.

The National Capital Territory of Delhi lies within the eastern arm of Haryana, which encloses it on three sides, while Uttar Pradesh lies on the fourth.

Nardak is the old name for the high, fertile tract of the Karnal, Kaithal and Kurukshetra belt, lying above the flood plains on old alluvium and now among the most productive wheat and rice land in the country.

Along with Fatehabad and Mahendragarh, these districts form the bagar belt, where sand carried in from the Thar makes dunes and sandy soil, rainfall drops to about 30 centimetres and no perennial stream flows.

The low, broken, rocky ridges of Gurugram, Nuh, Faridabad, Rewari and Mahendragarh are the worn northern end of the Aravalli, the oldest fold mountain system of India, which continues into Delhi as the Ridge.

The Ghaggar enters Haryana from the Shivalik, flows south-west past Kaithal and Fatehabad and is checked at the Ottu weir in Sirsa district, from which canals take its water; beyond that point its dry bed continues into Rajasthan, where it is lost in the sand.

The Yamuna flows along the eastern boundary of Haryana with Uttar Pradesh and is the only river of the state that carries water throughout the year, because it is fed by Himalayan snow.

Karoh peak, 1,467 metres, stands in the Morni hills of Panchkula district, where the Shivalik ranges enter Haryana in the extreme north-east.

Haryana came into being on 1 November 1966 under the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966, when the Hindi-speaking districts of the old Punjab were formed into a new state, the hill areas went to Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh was made a union territory to serve as capital of both Punjab and…

Haryana lies between these parallels and between 74 degrees 28 minutes east and 77 degrees 36 minutes east longitude. Its position far north of the Tropic of Cancer and far from the sea explains the state's continental climate, with very hot summers and cold winters.

Haryana covers 44,212 square kilometres, about 1.34 per cent of the area of India, which makes it one of the smaller states by size even though it is among the most urbanised and the most productive per hectare in the country.