General Knowledge Questions on Indian Geography

The Paithan (Jayakwadi) Hydro-electric project, completed with the help of Japan, is on the river

The percentage of irrigated land in India is about

Which of the following types of soil are mostly confined to river basins and coastal plains of India?

The two states of India, most richly endowed with iron ore, are

The most fertile region of India is

Which of the following groups accounts for over 90 per cent of India’s annual coal production?

The significant shifts in Indian agriculture during green revolution include

The number of major ports in India is

Which of the following is a peninsular river of India?

Which of the following is the most important raw material for generation of power in India?

When it is noon IST at Allahabad in India, the time at Greenwich, London, will be

Which country has the largest coast line?

The river Godavari is often referred to as Vridha Ganga because

The scarcity or crop failure of which of the following can cause a serious edible oil crisis in India?

The pennines (Europe), Appalachians (America) and the Aravallis (India) are examples of

Which of the following factors are responsible for present crisis in the jute industry in India?

1. The decline in overseas market
2. Inadequately supply of raw jute
3. Stiff competition from synthetic packing materials

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Which of the following factors are responsible for India’s failure to fully exploit the inland fisheries during the last five decades?

1. Silting and pollution of the inland water bodies
2. Deforestation in the catchment areas of the rivers
3. Lack of marketing facilities

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The outer Himalayas lie between

Which of the following geographical features have played a great unifying role in strengthening the forces of homogeneity of the Indian people?

1. The expanses of water surrounding the peninsula
2. The Himalayan Mountains
3. The vastness of the country
4. The presence of the Indian ocean

The only private sector refinery set up by Reliance Petroleum Ltd. is located at

The outer Himalayas lie between

Which of the following geographical features have played a great unifying role in strengthening the forces of homogeneity of the Indian people?

1. The expanses of water surrounding the peninsula
2. The Himalayan Mountains
3. The vastness of the country
4. The presence of the Indian ocean

Which of the following drainage systems fall into Bay of Bengal?

The oldest oil refinery in India is at

The oldest mountains in India are

Which of the following groups of rivers have their source of origin in Tibet?

Which of the following measures are effective for soil conservation in India?

1. Avoiding crop rotation
2. Afforestation
3. Encouraging the use of chemical fertilizers
4. Limiting shifting cultivation

Which of the following crops needs maximum water per hectare?

The watershed between India and Myanmar is formed by

The originating in the Himalayan mountain complex consists of how many distinct drainage systems of the Indian Subcontinent?

The percentage of India’s total population employed in agriculture is nearly

Which of the following important rivers of India does not originate from the Western Ghats?

Which of the following areas or regions is most prone to earthquakes?

The proportion of forest to the total national geographical area of India as envisaged by National Forest Policy is

Which of the following dams has generations of power more than irrigation as its main purpose?

Which of the following crops is regarded as a plantation crop?

Which of the following countries leads in the production of aluminium and its products in the world?

The natural region which holds the Indian subcontinent is

The most ideal region for the cultivation of cotton in India is

Which of the following are true with respect to the Indian Peninsular Plateau?

1. The southern plateau block is formed mainly of granite and gneiss
2. The Deccan lava plateau is an elevated tableland consisting of horizontally arranged lava sheets
3. The Malwa plateau dominates the Vindhyam scraps, forming the northern flank of the plateau
4. The trough of the Narmada and Tapti are interposed between the Vindhyan and the Satpura ranges

The year ____ is called a Great Divide in the demographic history of India.

The only private sector refinery set up by Reliance Petroleum Ltd. is located at

The only state in India that produces saffron is

Three important rivers of the Indian subcontinent have their sources near the Mansarover Lake in the Great Himalayas. These rivers are

The zonal soil type of peninsular India belongs to

The most plausible explanation for the location of the Thar desert in western India is

The northern boundary of the peninsular plateau of Indian runs parallel to the Ganga and the Yamuna from Rajmahal hills to a point near

Which of the following food grain crops occupies the largest part of the cropped area in India?

The number of major languages, recognized in the Indian Union as official language, are

The oldest rocks in India are reported from

Which of the following groups of rivers originate from the Himachal mountains?

Which of the following groups of states has the largest deposits of iron ore?

Which of the following union territories of India has the highest density of population per sq km?

which atomic power station in India is built completely indigenously?

The south-west monsoon contributes ____ of the total rain in India.

The Shimla Convention is an agreement that sets

Which of the following events took place in the Cenozoic era?

The oldest oil field in India is the ____ field, in ____

Unlike other parts of the Indian Coast, fishing industry has not developed along the Saurashtra coast because

The mountain building in Himalayas began

The Paithan (Jayakwadi) Hydro-electric project, completed with the help of Japan, is on the river

The percentage of irrigated land in India is about

The southernmost point of peninsular India, that is, Kanyakumari, is

The pass located at the southern end of the Nilgiri Hills in south India is called

Which of the following factors are responsible for the rapid growth of sugar production in south India as compared to north India?

1. Higher per acre field of sugarcane
2. Higher sucrose content of sugarcane
3. Lower labour cost
4. Longer crushing period

The principal copper deposits of India lie in which of the following places?

Which of the following are true regarding Jhum cultivation in India?

1. It is largely practiced in Assam
2. It is referred to as ‘slash and burn’ technique
3. In it, the fertility is exhausted in a few years

The Yarlung Zangbo river, in India, is known as

The Salal Project is on the river

The only zone in the country that produces gold is also rich in iron is

The percentage of earth surface covered by India is

Which among the following is/are the major factor/factors responsible for the monsoon type of climate in India?

1. Location
2. Thermal contrast
3. Upper air circulation
4. Inter-tropical convergence zone

The present forest area of India, according to satellite data, is

The India’s highest annual rainfall is reported at

The refineries are Mathura, Digboi and Panipat are set up by

What is the predominant type of Indian agriculture?

The Radcliffe line is a boundary between

Which of the following has a potential for harnessing of tidal energy in India?

The typical area of sal forest in the Indian peninsular upland occurs

The state having a largest area of forest cover in India is