Indian Geography MCQs

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India’s southern mainland and islands share a maritime border with Myanmar, Thailand and Indonesia.

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India has 15,106.7 Km of land border and a coastline of 7,516.6 Km including island territories. India shares land borders with seven neighboring countries viz. Pakistan, Bangladesh, China, Nepal, Myanmar, Bhutan and Afghanistan. We note here that since India claims all of Kashmir including PoK, India technically considers itself to have a 106 km border with Afghanistan. However, in fact, this border passes through Pakistan-controlled Gilgit-Baltistan in Kashmir and the Wakhan Corridor on the Afghan side. The borders length of India with neighboring countries as per Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India is as follows:

Name of the country	Length of the border (in Km)
Bangladesh	4,096.7
China	3,488
Pakistan	3,323
Nepal	1,751
Myanmar	1,643
Bhutan	699
Afghanistan	106
Total	15,106.7

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Jamnagar in Saurashtra region is the place of world’s largest Oil Refining and Petrochemicals Complex.

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Zawar Mines are located in the Udaipur district, Rajasthan. It it is one of the oldest zinc mines of the world and is declared as the National Geological Monument.

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Shiva Crater, discovered by Sankar Chatterjee and colleagues is a 500-kilometre diameter asteroid impact structure located in Arabian sea west of Mumbai. This crater was formed around 65 million years ago due to a comet or asteroid 40 kilometers wide. Due to this impact, hot material from Earth’s mantle flooded south Indian region with vast amount of lava, creating a plateau known as the Deccan Traps.

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Tube wells are, today, the most popular source of irrigation in India because of their capacity to irrigate larger area. Well Irrigation is common in alluvial plains of the country except the deserts of Rajasthan. Plains of UP, Bihar, Gujarat, Karnataka & Tamil Nadu are the states which are more prominently under the well irrigation. Canals are second most important source of irrigation in India after wells and tube wells. The Canals are irrigating those lands which have large plains, fertile soils and perennial rivers.

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Rajghat Dam is an Inter-state Dam project of the Government of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh being constructed on Betwa River about 14 km from Historical place Chanderi in Madhya Pradesh.

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Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat have common borders with Pakistan.

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India has been classified into six zonal regions and siz zonal councils were set up viz, Northern Zonal Council, North Eastern Council, Central Zonal Council, Eastern Zonal Council, Western Zonal Council, Southern Zonal Council.

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The largest glacier of the Nun-Kun peak is Gangri glacier. The length of the glacier is 13 kilometers.