Indian Geography MCQs

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Lake Rakshastal is located in close proximity of the Lake Manasarovar on its west side. Though its a salt water lake, the Sutlej river originates at the northwestern tip of lake Rakshastal.

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The Tin Bigha Corridor is a strip of land belonging to India on the West Bengal–Bangladesh border which, in September 2011, was leased to Bangladesh so the country could access its Dahagram–Angarpota enclave from the mainland. The enclave remains the only one still in existence after the 2015 resolution of the India–Bangladesh enclaves issue.

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Wahga is a village in Lahore of Pakistan. Wagah Border is a border point, goods transit terminal and a railway station between Pakistan and India. The border is located 24 kilometres from Lahore and 32 kilometres from Amritsar. Since India Pakistan border is known as Radcliffe Line, wagah border is located on this line.

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Mahe is the smallest district in India , geographically located in Kerala but administratively comes under control of Union Territory of Pondicherry.
Alapuzha is the smallest district of Kerala. Dausa is smallest district of Rajasthan, Tirap is second smallest district of Arunachal Pradesh, kannyakumari is smallest district of Tamil Nadu.

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The Sahastradhara Falls is in Maheshwar, Madhya Pradesh. Situated in Jalkoti, it is one of the popular waterfalls in Madhya Pradesh.

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First option is the correct answer
Uttar Pradesh> Punjab> Haryana> Tamil Nadu

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ONGC has successfully drilled the country’s first shale gas exploratory well near Jambusar about 60 km from Vadodara and has decided to drill more wells in Cambay region of Gujarat. The estimated shale gas potential of the well is about 20 TCF. Shale gas is natural gas trapped within the non porous layers of shale rock and can be utilised as cooking gas and for other commercial purposes. ONGC estimates India’s shale gas reserve in the range of 500 to 2000 trillion cubic meters. A part from the Cambay basin, the ONGC will also explore Krishna-Godavari, Cauvery and Vindhyan sedimentary basins for shale gas.

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The Narmada, Periyar and Tapti are the only long rivers, which flow west and make estuaries. Wastern rivers do not form Delta whereas they form Estuaries because Hard Rocks of Western ghat don’t allow Western flowing rivers to widen their mouth into sea, so these rivers form Estuaries whereas Eastern rivers flow through broken hills and mountain ranges.

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Clayey loam soil in monsoon land is considered to be the best for rice cultivation as water retention capacity of this soil is very high. Rice is also grown in saline areas of deltic region.

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The two major west flowing rivers are the Narmada and the Tapi. It is one of the rivers in India that flows in a rift valley, flowing west between the Satpura and Vindhya ranges.