World & Physical Geography MCQs

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The “Saint Pierre and Miquelon Islands” are situated in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, close to Fortune Bay’s entrance in the northern Atlantic Ocean. This self-governing territory of France, also known as the overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, is unique because it’s the sole part of New France that still remains under French control. Interestingly, Canada is the only country that shares a maritime boundary with these islands. The extent of the French territory’s Exclusive Economic Zone was established through the Canada-France Maritime Boundary Case in 1992, thereby settling a dispute between the two nations.

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The (Northern) Sporades are an archipelago along the east coast of Greece, northeast of the island of Euboea, in the Aegean Sea. They consist of 24 islands, four of which are permanently inhabited: Alonnisos, Skiathos, Skopelos and Skyros. They may also be referred to as the Thessalian Sporades.

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Iran houses the “Dasht-e Kavir Desert”. The Dasht-e Kavir, also known as Kavir-e Namak and the Great Salt Desert, is a large desert lying in the middle of the Iranian Plateau. It is about an 800-kilometre-long by 320-kilometre-wide desert with a total surface area of about 77,600 km2, making it the world’s 24th largest desert. The area of this desert stretches from the Alborz mountain range in the north-west to the Dasht-e Lut in the south-east.

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The highest mountain peak of United Mexican States is Pico de Orizaba. It is also known as Star Mountain. It is an inactive stratovolcano and is located at a height of 5636 meters above the mean sea level.

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The largest lake of United Mexican States is Lake Chapala. It is the largest freshwater lake of Mexico. It lies in the Municipalities of Chapala, Jocotepec, Poncitlan and Jamay in Jalisco. Its total area is about 1100 sq. km.

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The longest river of Republic of Nicaragua is river Rio Coco. It is located in the Somoto Canyon, Madriz department, Nicaragua. Its total length is about 750 km.

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Caldera refers to a large basin-shaped Crater that is bound by steep cliffs. The Caldera best known in North America is Crater Lake.

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The Sunda Trench, earlier known as the Java Trench, is the deepest point in the Indian Ocean. It is located in the northeastern Indian Ocean, with a length of 3,200 kilometres. The trench is considered to be part of the Pacific Ring of Fire as well as one of a ring of oceanic trenches around the northern edges of the Australian Plate.

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The world’s longest mountain chain is the Andes, about 7,000 km long. The chain stretches from north to south through seven countries in South America, along the west coast of the continent: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina.

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Irrawaddy River is the largest river of Myanmar and its most important commercial waterway. Originating from the confluence of the N’mai and Mali rivers, it flows relatively straight North-South before emptying through the Irrawaddy Delta into the Andaman Sea. After Rudyard Kipling’s poem, it is sometimes referred to as ‘The Road to Mandalay’.