Madhya Pradesh GK Questions 2026

The Chachai falls lie in Rewa district, where the Bihad river plunges over the edge of the Vindhyan sandstone plateau.

Khajuraho is in Chhatarpur district, which lies on the Bundelkhand Plateau, the tract of old granite and gneiss north of the Vindhya that takes in Chhatarpur, Tikamgarh, Datia, Sagar and Damoh.

The trough between the Vindhya and the Satpura sank along two roughly parallel faults, leaving the land on either side standing up as block mountains.

Pachmarhi lies in the Mahadeo hills of the Satpura in Narmadapuram district, at a height of about a thousand metres, and is the only hill station in Madhya Pradesh.

Beyond the Son valley the Vindhyan rocks continue east as the Kaimur range, which passes through the Rewa and Satna country of Madhya Pradesh into Uttar Pradesh and then into the Kaimur and Rohtas districts of Bihar, where it forms the southern plateau fringe of that state.

The Vindhya Range runs west to east along the northern edge of the Narmada valley, and the rivers that rise on its northern slope, the Chambal, the Betwa, the Ken and the Tons, go to the Yamuna and the Ganga, while those on its southern slope go to the Narmada.

The Chambal begins on the Malwa Plateau at Janapav, flows north through Madhya Pradesh into Rajasthan and finally joins the Yamuna, which is why it belongs to the Ganga drainage although it starts in central India.

Malwa was covered by the great lava flows that spread over western and central India, and the basalt they left weathers into the deep black cotton soil, locally called regur, which makes Malwa a wheat, gram, cotton and soyabean region.

Amarkantak lies at the eastern end of the Satpura, where that range, the Maikal hills and the Vindhya come together, and three rivers begin there: the Narmada, which turns west along the rift valley, the Son, which runs east towards the Ganga, and the Johila, a tributary of the Son.

Dhupgarh rises to 1,350 metres at Pachmarhi, in Narmadapuram district, and is the highest point both of the Satpura range and of Madhya Pradesh.

The Baghelkhand plateau occupies the eastern part of the state, over Rewa, Satna, Sidhi, Shahdol and Anuppur.

The Amarkantak plateau is a water divide: two large rivers rise on it and run in opposite directions.

Madhya Pradesh has exactly five neighbours: Uttar Pradesh in the north, Chhattisgarh in the east, Maharashtra in the south, Gujarat in the west and Rajasthan in the north-west.

The Malwa plateau, around Indore, Ujjain and Dewas, is built of basalt poured out as Deccan trap lava, and the weathering of that basalt has given it the deep black soil on which the state's cotton, wheat and soybean are grown.

Chhattisgarh was created out of the eastern districts of Madhya Pradesh on 1 November 2000 under the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000.

The Chambal rises at Janapav hill near Mhow in Indore district, on the southern edge of the Malwa plateau, and flows north and then north-east into the Yamuna, cutting the deep ravines that form the boundary between Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.

The Narmada does not flow in a valley cut by its own water but along a long structural trough, a rift, with the Vindhya forming its northern wall and the Satpura its southern wall.

The Narmada rises on the Amarkantak plateau, at about 1,057 metres, where the Satpura and Maikal ranges meet, and flows westward for about 1,312 kilometres in all, of which roughly 1,077 kilometres lie inside Madhya Pradesh, before reaching the Gulf of Khambhat.

Dhupgarh, 1,350 metres, stands in the Pachmarhi group of the Mahadeo hills within the Satpura range and is the highest point of Madhya Pradesh.

Madhya Pradesh lies between these parallels and between 74 degrees 9 minutes east and 82 degrees 48 minutes east longitude.