World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Fangataufa is a small, low, narrow, coral atoll in the eastern side of the Tuamotu Archipelago, located in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France. This permanently uninhabited common military zone atoll was the site of France’s first two-stage thermonuclear test, code-named Canopus, detonated in 1968. It now serves as a wildlife sanctuary for various bird species.

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The Balkans, also known as the Balkan Peninsula, are a geographic area in southeastern Europe bordered by the Adriatic Sea in the northwest, the Ionian Sea in the southwest, the Aegean Sea in the south, the Turkish Straits in the east, and the Black Sea in the northeast. Situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, Greece is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. It shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the northeast.

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The Gulf of Corinth or the Corinthian Gulf is a deep inlet of the Ionian Sea, separating the Peloponnese from western mainland Greece.

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Grand Etang Lake is a crater lake in an extinct volcano. It is located on the island of Grenada, in Saint Andrew Parish. Evidence suggests that the Grand Etang Lake is connected to Kick ’em Jenny, an active submarine volcano to the north. This is because when Kick Em Jenny was observed bubbling, so too were the waters in Grand Etang Lake. The Grand Etang Lake is 530 m above sea level and it is one of the two crater lakes on the island (the other being Lake Antoine).

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The Atlantic Ocean forms the mouth of the largest river in Guyana “Essequibo River”. The Essequibo River is the largest river in Guyana and the largest river between the Orinoco and Amazon. Rising in the Acarai Mountains near Brazil–Guyana border, the Essequibo flows to the north through forest and savanna into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Lake Toba is the largest lake in Indonesia and the largest volcanic lake in the world. Lake Toba is a large natural lake in North Sumatra, Indonesia, occupying the caldera of a supervolcano. The lake is located in the middle of the northern part of the island of Sumatra. It is the largest lake in Indonesia and the largest volcanic lake in the world. Lake Toba Caldera is one of the twenty Geoparks in Indonesia, which is recognised in July 2020 as one of the UNESCO Global Geopark.

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Indonesia is the basin country of the “Cenderawasih Bay”. Cenderawasih Bay, also known as Sarera Bay, is a large bay in the Northern Province of Papua and West Papua, New Guinea, Indonesia. Teluk Cenderawasih National Park is located in the Teluk Cenderawasih. In the Cenderawasih Bay, extensive coral reefs exist. Parts of the area have been declared a protected marine reserve of 1.5 million hectares, the largest natural park in Southeast Asia. The western part of the bay was declared a marine national park in 2002.

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Azerbaijan does share a land border with Iran. Iran is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered to the northwest by Armenia and Azerbaijan, to the north by the Caspian Sea, to the northeast by Turkmenistan, to the east by Afghanistan, to the southeast by Pakistan, to the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, and to the west by Turkey and Iraq. It is the second-largest country in the Middle East, and its capital and largest city is Tehran.

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The longest river of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania is river Senegal which is located in the northwest Africa. It forms a border between Senegal and Mauritania. Its total length is about 1083 km.

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China is the world’s largest wheat producer with around 17% of total global production. Russia is the largest global wheat exporter.