Indian Geography MCQs

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Gujarat is the sole producer of agate, chalk, and perlite and is leading producer of fluorite (concentrate), fireclay, silica sand, lignite, laterite, petroleum and natural gas and bauxite in the country. State is the sole holder of country’s resources of perlite, 66% of fluorite, 28% of diatomite, 18% of bentonite and 12% of wollastonite. [Ministry of Mines]

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Jaduguda is first Uranium Mine in India located in Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. Other mine is located in Tummalapalle in Andhra Pradesh. Pichli near Abrakipahar in Gaya district of Bihar and Sunrgai and Dalbhum areas of Singhbhum district of Jharkhand are other locations where

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Jongsong Peak is a mountain located on tripoint of India, Nepal and China.

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Gomti River is a monsoon- and groundwater-fed river which originates from Gomat Taal near Madho Tanda, Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh. It is the only tributary river of Ganga that rises in the plains and not in hills.

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Bhima basin is located in the state of Karnataka. The Bhima basin is a Neoproterozoic Purana basin that covers an area of 5,000 sq km. The basin is located in northern Karnataka. The Bhima basin is important for uranium potential due to the discovery of significant radioactive zones at Ukinal and Gogi. The uranium mineralized zone in this region occurs along the Gogi-Kurlagere fault at a depth of about 150 m.

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The southwestern summer monsoons occur from July through September. Most of the rainfall in India, particularly, North, West and East, occurs due to South West Monsoon.

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Bateshwar hills are located in Katihar district of Bihar. Biligiriranga Hills or B R Hills, located in Karnataka, it is special because it is located on the place where Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats meet. So, the area is protected and the sanctuary has now been declared a Tiger Reserve.
Chin Hills are not located in India, but in Myanmar in Arakan region. But there is a part of this hill that protrudes in India in the Manipur state.
Dhosi hills is the part of Aravali ranges in Haryana near Narnaul, and are special because, Van Parv of epic Mahabharata mentions the name of this hill as Arichac Parvatas where Richas of vedas were recited aloud.

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Wheeler Island, recently renamed Abdul Kalam Island in honour of India’s former president, is located off the coast of Odisha and serves as a missile development and launch facility for India’s defence programs. Operated by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), this strategically located facility hosts test launches of various indigenous missile systems including the Prithvi and Agni series. With advanced infrastructure like launch pads, radars and tracking systems, this island territory provides an ideal platform to fire missiles into predetermined impact points over the Bay of Bengal.

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Nanga Parbat is the ninth highest mountain in the world at 8,126 metres above sea level. It is the western anchor of the Himalayas around which the Indus River skirts into the plains of Pakistan. Namcha Barwa is in an isolated part of south-eastern Tibet rarely visited by outsiders. Namcha rises 5,000 to 6,800 metres above the Yarlung Tsangpo.

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Pattiseema is a village in Polavaram mandal of West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. The Pattiseema Lift Irrigation Scheme (PLIS) is a temporary substitute to the proposed Polavaram project across the Godavari.