Miscellaneous Indian Geography — Part 1 MCQs with Explanations

Chandigarh is a planned city in India. Chandigarh is India's first planned city and is known for its layout, which was 'designed for the people'. Chandigarh was created just for this. The project of creating a brand new city took on great significance because of the then Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's personal interest in it.

Coir, Copra, Coconut, Cashew are mainly exported from Cochin because Kerala is the major producer of these products.

Hurricane is the name of very violent and serious type of winds which bring a lot of disaster. A hurricane is a storm with violent winds, which forms over tropical or subtropical waters. When a storm’s maximum sustained winds reach 74 mph, it’s called a hurricane. The hurricane wind scale has a 1 to 5 rating, based on the sustained winds.

Uttar Pradesh is not major cashewnut growing State. The major cashew nut producing states in India are Maharastra, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Goa and West Bengal.

Saffron is grown in the cold climate of Kashmir. Saffron needs extreme heat and dryness in summer and extreme cold during winter. Maximum vegetative growth takes place during winter.

The States involved In the Dandakaranya Project are Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, and Andhra Pradesh. Extending over an area of about 35,600 square miles (92,300 square km), it includes the Abujhmar Hills in the west and borders the Eastern Ghats in the east. The Dandakaranya includes parts of Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh states.

The first shore based integrated steel project in India is coming up at Visakhapatnam. Vizag Steel Plant is the only Indian shore-based, modern and integrated steel plant and is situated on 33,000 acres and is poised to expand to produce up to 20 MT in a single campus.

Gomia in Jharkhand famous for Explosives factory. Gomia took shape around the year 1956, when the Imperial Chemical Industries, a Britsh company, set up Indian Explosive Limited (IEL) factory here.

India's land border with the neighboring countries is, in length, approximately 15 thousand km.

The Indo-Gangetic Plains of India are fertile due to Alluvial soils brought by the rivers from the mountains. It is bound on the north by the abruptly rising Himalayas, which feed its numerous rivers and are the source of the fertile alluvium deposited across the region by the two river systems.

The great one horned Indian Rhino is round in Kaziranga Game Sanctuary.

The longest of all the Indus tributaries is the Chenab. The Chenab river is the largest tributary of Indus river. Indus River, on whose banks one of the ancient great civilization of India i.e Harrppan civilization developed is one of the major rivers of south Asia. InIndia it flows through Ladakh and then enters into Pakistan.

International Date Line is the 180º Meridian from Greenwich. The International Date Line is located halfway around the world from the prime meridian (0° longitude) or about 180° east (or west) of Greenwich, London, UK, the reference point of time zones. It is also known as the line of demarcation.

Bailadila is famous for producing iron which is used for steel making. 'BAILADILA' is a hill range in Chattisgarh which is famous for the very high grade hematites which are found in bailadila.

The sun rises in Arunachal Pradesh two hours before it does in Dwaraka in Gujarat. This is because the former is situated about 30 º east of Dwaraka and the earth rotates from west to east.

Tin Bigha Corridor is an issue, between India and Bangladesh. Tinbigha is a strip of land lying in the south-east of Mekhliganj Block of Cooch Behar District of West Bengal State in India. Geographically it lies surrounded by Fulkadabri Gram Panchayat (in the north) & Kuchlibari Gram Panchayat (in the south), both belonging to India, and by Dahagram (in the west) & Panbari Mouza (in the east), both belonging to Bangladesh respectively.

The multipurpose project irrigating maximum area in india is Hirakud. Hirakud Dam is built across the Mahanadi River, about 15km from Sambalpur in the state of Orissa in India. The Hirakud Dam was built in 1957. This dam is one of the longest man made dams in the world and one of the world’s longest earthen dams. The length of the dam is about 16 mi (26 km) and 55 km long. Hirakud Dam is the first major multipurpose river valley project that started after the India’s Independence.

The Nilgiris are part of the Western Ghats. The Nilgiri Mountains form part of the Western Ghats in western Tamil Nadu of Southern India. At least 24 of the Nilgiri Mountains' peaks are above 2,000 metres (6,600 ft), the highest peak being Doddabetta, at 2,637 metres (8,652 ft).

Rayalaseema is a geographic region in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It comprises four southern districts of the state namely, Anantapur, Chittoor, Kadapa and Kurnool.

"Konkan" is a region of Maharashtra. Konkan division is one of the six administrative divisions of Maharashtra state in India. It comprises the Konkan region, which occupies the entire west coast of Maharashtra. The two districts in the state capital Mumbai also fall in Konkan division.

The shape of the Himalayas is like an arc. The upper parts of the Himalayas are covered with perpetual snow. The snow fields cover about 40,000 sq. kms from Kashmir to Assam. The main crust of the Himalayan ranges rises above the snow line which varies between 4,500 to 6,000 meters in the west and 4,000 to 5,800 meters in the east.

Naharkatiya oilfields are located in Assam. Located in the north-east of Tipam hills in Dibrugarh district of Upper Assam, Digboi is the oldest oil field of India.

Vijayawada lies on the banks of Krishna River, covered by hills and canals. It is 18.5 km (11.5 mi) from the state capital, Amaravati. and at an altitude of 11 m (36 ft) above sea level.

Throughout the ages the maximum number of streams of people came to India via the western Himalayan passes.

The Koal Project is aimed towards Irrigation, flood control and power generation.

Narmada flows westwards through a rift valley between the Vindhyan Range on the north and the Satpura Range on the south. The Narmada, also called the Rewa, is a river in central India and the sixth longest river in the Indian subcontinent.

Marble is a metamorphic rock that forms when limestone is subjected to the heat and pressure of metamorphism. Under the conditions of metamorphism, the calcite in the limestone recrystallizes to form a rock that is a mass of interlocking calcite crystals.

Indus and Brahmaputra have almost the same point of beginning. Brahmaputra and Indus rivers have almost the same point of emerging. The Indus originates in the northern slopes of the Kailash range in Tibet near Lake Manasarovar. The Brahmaputra originates in the Mansarovar lake, also the source of the Indus and the Satluj.

Arvi earth station for satellite communication is in Gujarat. This station works to the Indian Ocean satellite, which is located over the equator at a nominal longitude of 61.4″E.

Passenger and merchant ships are constructed at Hindustan Shipyard at Visakhapatnam. Hindustan Shipyard Ltd., strategically located on the East Coast of the Indian peninsula, at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, is the nation’s premier shipbuilding organization catering to the needs of shipbuilding, ship repairs, submarine construction and refits as well as design and construction of sophisticated state-of-the-art offshore and onshore structures.

Narmada originates from its source situated in the State of Madhya Pradesh. It forms the traditional boundary between North India and South India and flows westwards over a length of 1,312 km (815.2 mi) before draining through the Gulf of Khambhat into the Arabian Sea, 30 km (18.6 mi) west of Bharuch city of Gujarat.

Nagarjunasagar is not a multi-purpose project involving more than one State in India. Nagarjuna Sagar Dam is one of the world's largest and tallest Masonry dams built across the Krishna river at Nagarjuna Sagar which straddles the border between Nalgonda District, Telangana State, India and Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh State, India.

When dew point is reached it is said that at that temperature the atmosphere is said to be saturated with water vapour. When that maximum amount of water vapor is reached, that is referred to as saturation. This is also known as 100% relative humidity. When this is achieved, the temperature of the air has reached the dew point temperature. It is also called the condensation temperature.

Paradeep, Kakinada, Nagapattinam are the sets of three ports is on the east coast of India.

There are seven major port located on the east coast of India i.e. Tuticorin (Tamil Nadu), Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Ennore (Tamil Nadu), Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), Paradip (Odisha), Haldia & Kolkata (West Bengal), and Port Blair (Andaman & Nicobar Island).

Currents and Tides is not conducive to the formation of deltas. When a river reaches a lake or the sea the water slows down and loses the power to carry sediment . The sediment is dropped at the mouth of the river. Some rivers drop so much sediment that waves and tides can't carry it all away. It builds up in layers forming a delta.

It does not pass through Madhya Pradesh. The Ganges passes through the states of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, and West Bengal. The Ganges drainage area with its productive land is helpful for the agrarian economies of Bangladesh and India.

In ancient Indian historical geography, the Indian Ocean has been named as "Ratnakara"- a place where gems and jewels are found. India is encircled by water on 3 sides. The distance of the Indian Coastline is 7516 Kms. The Indian coastline extends from 'Bay of Bengal' in the east to 'Indian Ocean' in the south to the 'Arabian Sea' in the west.

The right Ganga tributaries of the plain do not include Alakananda. The Alaknanda is a Himalayan river in the Indian state of Uttarakhand and one of the two headstreams of the Ganges, the major river of Northern India and the holy river of Hinduism.

They are people of yellow complexion, oblique eyes, high chick bones, spare hair and medium height," The reference here is to Mongoloids. Mongoloid, a term from physical anthropology, refers to the skull shape typically found among East Asians and many American Indians. Skull shape figured.