World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Asia holds approximately 27.7% of the global railway network, with 380,583 km out of 1,374,001 km worldwide. Europe has about 27.4% (376,924 km). North America accounts for 22.0% (302,968.6 km) and Africa for 6.2% (85,476.6 km). Asia has the largest share of world railway route length.

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Waterways provide the cheapest means of transport for commodities in bulk and over long distances. In spite of its slow speed, shipping is the most convenient means of transport for bulk goods entering international trade, particularly minerals, food grains, fertilisers, automobiles and much of trade in oil.

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Port Mitswa, also known as Massawa, is a historically important port of Eritrea facing the Red Sea at the northern end of the Gulf of Zula besides the Dahlak Archipelago. Till 1897, this region forms the capital of Italian Eritrea. This port is one of the hottest marine coastal areas in the world.

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The Carbet Mountains is a massif of volcanic origin on the Caribbean Island of Martinique, an overseas territory of France. It is an important tourist, hiking, and rock climbing destination of Martinique. It houses peaks such as Pilon Lacroix, Morne Piquet, Piton Dumauze; Piton de l’Alma, Piton Boucher.

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Georgia is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital and largest city is Tbilisi. The lari is the currency of Georgia.

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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 longest river of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is Yalu river. It is about 790 km long and is also known as Amnok river.

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The longest river of Liechtenstein is River Rhine which originates in Liechtenstein. It is a white water river and is about 17 Km long.

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An evergreen forest is a forest consisting entirely or mainly of evergreen trees that retain green foliage all year round. Such forests reign in the equatorial region, between the tropics primarily as broadleaf evergreens, and in temperate and boreal latitudes primarily as coniferous evergreens.

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Pidurutalagala or Mount Pedro is the tallest mountain in Sri Lanka with height of 2,524 meters.