Indian Geography MCQs

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Kachin Hills are located at the extreme northeastern area of the Kachin State of Myanmar and they make a boundary between India and Myanmar.

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The Survey of India is responsible for all topographic control, surveys and mapping of India.

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Western Disturbances are important to the development of the Rabi crop in the northern subcontinent, which includes the locally important staple wheat.

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The Tummalapalle Mine is a uranium mine in Tumalapalli village located in Kadapa of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Results from a research conducted by the Atomic Energy Commission of India in 2011 made the analysts conclude that this mine might have one of the largest reserves of uranium in the world. This finding substantially increased India’s capability of producing energy from nuclear plants

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Buckingham Canal is a 796 kilometres long fresh water navigation canal from Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh to Viluppuram in Tamil Nadu. It runs parallel to the Coromandel coast. It was constructed during British rule and was an important waterway in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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The Mumbai-Pune Expressway is India’s first six-lane, concrete, high-speed, tolled, access-controlled, 93 km (58 mi) long expressway.

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The Chamera Dam is located near the town of Dalhousie, in the Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh. It impounds the River Ravi and supports the hydroelectricity project in the region. The reservoir of the dam is the Chamera Lake. The catchment of the dam is 472.5 square kilometres. The reservoir has a live storage capacity of 110 MCN and mean annual inflow of 1,273 BCM. The unique feature of the region is the fluctuating day and night temperature. The temperature during the day near the dam rises up to 35 degrees Celsius and drops to a minimum of 18 to 20 °C at night. The water level in the Chamera Lake rises to a maximum of 763 meters while the minimum water level is 747 meters.

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Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh are largest coal producing states of India.

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The Tulbul project (also known as the Wullar Barrage project) is located on the Jhelum River in the Bandipora district in the northern part of Jammu and Kashmir. The project aims to construct a barrage across the Jhelum River to store water which can be used to irrigate agricultural land in Jammu and Kashmir.

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Kuttanad is the only region in India where farming is practiced below sea level. Located on the backwaters, it has several waterways which are integral to farming. Key crops are paddy, bananas, yam, and coconut cultivated on reclaimed lands. Practice of “Puncha” cultivation where land is reclaimed from backwaters for farming. As it lies below sea level, irrigation relies on monsoon rains and pumping of water. Farmers use various techniques like bunds, dykes to prevent flooding of fields. It is an ingenious method of cultivation that makes optimal use of the wetland ecosystem.