Rajasthan GK Questions 2026

Jodhpur division holds eight districts, namely Jodhpur, Barmer, Balotra, Jaisalmer, Jalore, Pali, Phalodi and Sirohi, which is more than any other division of the state.

The districts of Rajasthan are grouped into seven divisions, with headquarters at Jaipur, Jodhpur, Ajmer, Kota, Bikaner, Bharatpur and Udaipur, and each is headed by a Divisional Commissioner.

The Banas is not a tributary of the Luni; it flows east and joins the Chambal, which belongs to the Ganga basin.

Sambhar, the large saline lake west of Jaipur and the biggest inland salt lake of the country, was added to the list of Ramsar wetlands in 1990; the other Ramsar wetland of the state is Keoladeo Ghana at Bharatpur, recognised in 1981.

The Palace on Wheels was introduced in 1982, using coaches in the style of the old princely saloons, and runs a weekly circuit through the cities and wildlife parks of Rajasthan; it is operated for the state by the Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation, which itself was set up in 1979.

The Pushkar fair is held at Pushkar in Ajmer district around Kartik Purnima, the full moon of Kartik, and combines a bathing pilgrimage to the lake and the temple of Brahma with one of the largest cattle and camel markets of the country.

Guru Shikhar stands on the Abu hills in Sirohi district and is the highest point of the whole Aravalli range; Mount Abu, the only hill station of Rajasthan, lies below it along with the Dilwara temples and the Nakki lake.

Udaipur is called the City of Lakes and the Venice of the East because of Lake Pichola, Fateh Sagar and the palaces built in and around the water, among them the Lake Palace or Jag Niwas on Pichola.

Chand Baori at Abhaneri in Dausa district is among the deepest and most photographed step wells in India, a square tank with flights of steps on three sides and a pavilion on the fourth.

The Vijay Stambh inside Chittorgarh Fort, the largest fort of India by area, was raised by Rana Kumbha of Mewar in the fifteenth century to mark his victory over Mahmud Khilji of Malwa.

The Dilwara group of Jain temples stands at Mount Abu, the only hill station of Rajasthan, and is built in white marble; the Vimal Vasahi is dedicated to Adinath and the Luna Vasahi to Neminath, and the carved ceilings and pillars are the reason for its fame.

The Hawa Mahal, the screen of latticed windows on the edge of the city palace complex, was built in 1799 by Sawai Pratap Singh and designed by the architect Lal Chand Ustad, so that the women of the household could watch processions in the street without being seen.

The serial property inscribed in 2013 covers exactly six forts: Chittorgarh, Kumbhalgarh in Rajsamand, Ranthambore in Sawai Madhopur, Amber near Jaipur, Jaisalmer, and Gagron in Jhalawar.

Keoladeo, a man-made wetland created by the rulers of Bharatpur and long known for the migratory birds that wintered there, was inscribed in 1985 and is the oldest World Heritage property of the state; it had already been recognised as a Ramsar wetland in 1981.

Bhilwara grew into the largest centre of synthetic yarn, suiting and shirting in Rajasthan and is commonly called the textile city or the Manchester of Rajasthan; the same district also holds the Rampura Agucha zinc mine.

The campaign took up village level works such as check dams, anicuts, farm ponds, contour trenches and the repair of old tanks, with the aim of making each village self-reliant in water, and it was carried out in phases in selected panchayats of every district.

Jhamarkotra is the largest rock phosphate deposit worked in India and supplies the raw material for phosphatic fertiliser, which is why the country's dependence on imported phosphate is reduced by it; the mine is run by Rajasthan State Mines and Minerals Limited.

Rawatbhata stands on the Chambal, near the Rana Pratap Sagar dam, within Chittorgarh district, though the station is often described as being near Kota because that is the larger city close by, and that is exactly the trap in this question.

The Mangala field, found in 2004 in the Barmer basin, with Bhagyam and Aishwariya nearby, made Rajasthan an oil producing state, and the crude is carried by a heated pipeline to the Gujarat coast; a refinery is being built at Pachpadra in the same district.

Makrana supplies the fine white marble used in the Taj Mahal and in the Victoria Memorial, and its quarries were recognised as a global heritage stone resource; marble is also cut at Kishangarh in Ajmer district, the largest marble market of the country.