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General Knowledge Questions on World Geography

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General Knowledge Questions on World Geography

General Knowledge Questions on World Geography

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World geography is the study of the Earth and its physical features, including its landforms, oceans, and climate, as well as its human populations and cultures. It encompasses a wide range of topics, from the physical geography of the Earth to the cultural geography of its various regions and peoples.

The Earth is divided into several major regions, including continents, oceans, and major landforms such as mountain ranges, rivers, and deserts. These physical features have a significant impact on the climate and ecology of different regions, and they also shape the patterns of human settlement and activity.

Human populations and cultures are another important aspect of world geography. Human societies have developed in a variety of ways across different regions of the world, influenced by factors such as geography, history, religion, and economics. As a result, the world is home to a diverse array of cultures, languages, and traditions.

Geographers use a variety of tools and techniques to study the Earth and its populations. These include maps, satellite imagery, geographic information systems (GIS), and statistical analysis. They also conduct fieldwork and research to gather data on different regions and cultures.

World geography is an important field of study with many practical applications. It helps us to understand the Earth’s natural and cultural diversity, as well as the interactions between human societies and the natural environment. It also has practical applications in fields such as urban planning, environmental management, and international development.

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Most Important World Geography Question Answer

1. Which is the tallest mountain in the world?

Answer: Mount Everest

2. Which is the latitude that runs through the centre of the Earth?

Answer: Equator

3. What are the names of the 5 oceans of the world?

Answer: Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and Arctic Ocean

4. Which country has the highest population?

Answer: China

5. Which is the longest river in the world?

Answer: The Nile, Africa

6. Which is the largest waterfall in the world?

Answer: Victoria Falls

7. Which is the largest desert in the world?

Answer: Sahara Desert

8. What are the branches of a river called?

Answer: Tributaries

9. Which is the largest island in the world?

Answer: Greenland

10. What heats the water in a hot spring?

Answer: Magma

11. Which is the coldest continent in the world?

Answer: Antarctica

12. Which is the world’s smallest country?

Answer: Vatican City

13. Where is the Colloseum located?

Answer: Rome, Italy

14. Where is the Tower Bridge located?

Answer: London, UK

15. Where is the Leaning Tower of Pisa located?

Answer: Pisa, Italy

16. How many countries are present in Africa?

Answer: 54 countries

17. Which planet is closest to Planet Earth?

Answer: Venus

18. What erupts from a volcano?

Answer: Lava, steam, ash, pieces of rock, and gaseous sulfur compounds

19. What is the name of the strait that separates the north and south islands of New Zealand?

Answer: Cook strait

20. Which is the direction at which wind blows?

Answer: Leeward direction

21. The ‘Roof’ of the world is referred to which place?

Answer: Pamir knot

22. What is the currency in Cambodia?

Answer: Riel

23. What is dew point?

Answer: The temperature at which dew begins to evaporate

24. How do you measure the speed of wind?

Answer: Anemometer

25. Name the river that is not crossed by any bridges.

Answer: Amazon

26. Which is the world’s largest port?

Answer: Port of Shanghai

27. Name the city that is located in two countries.

Answer: Istanbul

28. Where can you find the St. Basil’s Cathedral?

Answer: Moscow, Russia

29. Where is Loch Ness located?

Answer: Highland, Scotland

30. Where is Acropolis situated?

Answer: Athens, Greece

31. Which line separates Indian and China?

Answer: Mac-Mahon line

32. Name the current that increases temperatures in western Europe?

Answer: North Equatorial current

33. Which country produces maximum aluminium in the world?

Answer: Jamaica

34. In which direction does the geostationary satellite rotate?

Answer: West to east

35. Where can you find the Puna grassland ecoregion?

Answer: Andes mountains, South America

36. Where can you find the ‘Desert of Death’?

Answer: Dasht-e Margo, Afghanistan

37. What is the term used for lines used to join places with the same mean temperature?

Answer: Isotherms

38. What type of deserts are Gobi desert and Atacama desert?

Answer: Rainshadow deserts

39. Which region can be called the belt of Doldrums?

Answer: Equatorial region

40. What is the study of landforms called?

Answer: Geomorphology

41. What type of rock is granite?

Answer: Intrusive igneous rock

42. On which day of the year is the Sun closest to the Earth?

Answer: January 4th

Indian Geography Important Questions Answers

1.What is the southernmost point of India?

Ans: Pygmalion or Indira Point in Andaman & Nicobar Islands

2.What is the length of the coastline of the country including Lakshdweep and Andaman & Nicobar islands?

Ans: 7516 Km

3.What is the Standard Meridian of India ?

Ans: 82∘ 30′

4.With which country India shares its longest border?

Ans: Bangladesh

5.Which channel separates Andaman and Nicobar Group?

Ans: 10 Degree Channel

6.Which is the only Indus river tributary which flows entirely in India?

Ans: River Beas

7.Where did the Ganga river originate from?

Ans: Gangotri glacier, Uttarakhand

8.What is the route of National Waterway 2 that is on Brahmaputra river?

Ans: Dhubri to Sadiya

9.In which soil is the process of self ploughing found?

Ans: Black soil

10.Red soils are red in colour due to the presence of ___

Ans: Iron Oxides

11.Which types of crops are mainly grown in Laterite soils?

Ans: Plantation Crops like tea, coffee

12.Where does the eastern ghats and western ghats meet?

Ans: Nilgiri

13.What is the highest peak in South India?

Ans: Anaimudi

14.What are the Coastal plains from Daman to Goa called?

Ans: Konkan coast

15.Which channel separates Minicoy island from the main Lakshadweep?

Ans: Nine Degree channel

16.Winter rain in Chennai is caused by____

Ans: North East Monsoon

17.Which type of climate has the characteristic of seasonal reversal of winds?

Ans: Monsoon Climate

18.Where is the Nokrek Biosphere Reserve located?

Ans: Meghalaya

19.How many biosphere reserves are in India?

Ans: 18

20.Where is the Kakrapara Nuclear plant located?

Ans: Gujarat

21.Where was the India’s first cotton textile mill setup?

Ans: Mumbai, 1854

22.Where was the India’s first Jute mill setup?

Ans: Rishra near kolkata in 1855

23.Which is the longest National Highway in the Country?

Ans: NH7 connecting Varanasi to Kanyakumari

24.Which state has the largest length of national highways?

Ans: Uttar Pradesh

25.Where is the headquarters of South-Eastern Railway zone?

Ans: Kolkata

26.Which state has the highest urban population?

Ans: Maharashtra

27.What are the left bank tributaries of river Godavari?

Ans: Penganga, Wardha, Wainganga, Indravati and Sabri.

28.Which direction flowing rivers generally form estuaries at their mouth?

Ans: West flowing rivers

29.Sardar sarovar dam is constructed on the river___

Ans: Narmada

30.Which country is separated from india through narrow Palk Strait?

Ans: Sri Lanka

31.Name the states through which the Tropic of Cancer passes through

Ans: Mizoram, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, West Bengal, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh & Tripura

32.Where does the rivers Beas and Sutlej meet?

Ans: Harike

33.Which river originates from the northern hills of Dandakaranya, Raipur, Chattisgarh?

Ans: Mahanadi

34.Which state has the largest forest cover in the Country?

Ans: Madhya Pradesh

35.Where are the Naharkatiya and Digboi mines located in the country?

Ans: Assam

36.Which is the largest cotton producing state in the country?

Ans: Gujarat

37.Which states are drained by the Cauvery river?

Ans: Karnataka, Kerala, Puducherry and Tamil Nadu

38.Which coastal plains have backwaters locally called Kayals?

Ans: Malabar coast

39.What is the zone of low pressure called where Northeast trade winds and southeast trade winds converge?

Ans: Inter Tropical Convergence Zone

40.What type of crops are grown in Rabi season?

Ans: Wheat, gram, barley, potato, oil seeds such as linseed, rapeseed and mustard

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Most Important 50 Geography GK Questions in Hindi

  • कौन-सा महासागर herring pond के नाम से जाना जाता है?– अटलांटिक महासागर
  • ‘सरदार सरोवर परियोजना’ किस नदी पर स्थित है? – नर्मदा नदी
  • विश्व में कौन–सा देश केले का सबसे ज्यादा उत्पादन करने वाला देश है? – भारत
  • दक्षिण अमेरिका की सबसे बड़ी नदी कौन-सी है? – अमेजन नदी
  • कौन-सी नहर संसार की सबसे महत्वपूर्ण जहाजी नहर है? – स्वेज नहर
  • भारत की सबसे बड़ी कृत्रिम झील कौन–सी है? – गोविन्द वल्लभ पन्त सागर
  • प्रसिद्ध ‘चिल्का’ झील कहां स्थित है? – ओडिशा में
  • वायुमण्डल की किस परत से ‘रेडियो तरंगें’ परावर्तित होती हैं? – आयनमण्डल
  • कौन-सा देश ‘पवित्र भूमि’ के नाम से जाना जाता है? – फिलीस्तीन
  • क्षेत्रफल की दृष्टि से सबसे बड़ा राज्य कौन-सा है? – राजस्थान
  • पृथ्वी की ऊपरी परत को क्या कहते हैं? – भूपर्पटी
  • वायुमण्डल में सबसे अधिक मात्रा में पायी जाने वाली गैस कौन-सी है? – नाइट्रोजन
  • भारत में सर्वाधिक पक्की सड़क वाला राज्य कौन-सा है? – महाराष्ट्र
  • ‘विश्व का चीनी भण्डार’ या ‘चीनी का प्याला’ के नाम से कौन-सा देश जाना जाता है? – क्यूबा
  • सबसे घना आबाद SAARC देश कौन-सा है? – बांग्लादेश
  • वायुदाब मापने का कौन-सा यन्त्र होता है? – बैरोमीटर
  • शिकार के लिए हारपून का प्रयोग कौन-सी जनजाति करती है? – एस्किमो
  • विश्व में मक्का की पेटी किस देश में पायी जाती है? – यू.एस.ए.
  • वायुमण्डल की आर्द्रता मापने वाला कौन-सा यन्त्र होता है? – हाइग्रोमीटर
  • प्रसिद्ध अंगुलियांनुमा झील क्षेत्र कहाँ स्थित है? – संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका
  • संसार का सर्वाधिक सक्रिय ज्वालामुखी कौन-सा है? – किलायू
  • पृथ्वी की ऊपरी परत में किस तत्व की मात्रा सर्वाधिक है? – ऑक्सीजन
  • बरमूडा त्रिभुज (Bermuda Triangle) किस महासागर में स्थित है? – उत्तरी अटलांटिक महासागर
  • पाक जलसन्धि किस को जोड़ती है? – मन्नार एवं बंगाल की खाड़ी
  • सबसे बड़ा महासागर कौन–सा है? – प्रशान्त महासागर
  • भारत में रेशम (Silk) का सबसे बड़ा उत्पादक राज्य कौन-सा है? – कर्नाटक
  • किसको ‘ह्नाइट ऑफ द अर्थ’ कहा जाता है? – मेंटल (Mantle)
  • भारत का सबसे अधिक गर्म स्थल कौन–सा है? – जैसलमेर
  • उत्तर भारत के मैदानी भागों में शीत ऋतु में किस कारण से वर्षा होती है? – पश्चिमी विक्षोभों से
  • भारत का दक्षिणतम द्वीप कौन-सा है? – ग्रेट निकोबार
  • किम्बरले किस लिए प्रसिद्ध है? – हीरा के खनन
  • लाल सागर, भूमध्य सागर से किस नहर के द्वारा जुड़ा होता है? – स्वेज नहर
  • विश्व की सबसे बड़ी खारे पानी की झील कौन–सी है? – Caspian Sea
  • विश्व का सबसे छोटा महासागर कौन-सा है? – Arctic Ocean
  • किस यन्त्र के द्वारा भूकम्प की तीव्रता को मापा जाता है? – Seismograph
  • विश्व की सबसे लम्बी गैस पाइपलाइन कौन-सी है? – ट्रान्स कनाडा गैस पाइपलाइन
  • द्वीपों की सर्वाधिक संख्या किस महासागर में देखने को मिलती है? – प्रशान्त महासागर
  • किसे ‘चावल का देश’ कहा जाता है? – थाईलैण्ड
  • भारत के उत्तरी मैदानों में शीतकाल में वर्षा कैसे होती है? – पश्चिमी विक्षोभ से
  • रिक्टर स्केल क्या मापता है? – भूकम्प की तीव्रता
  • पृथ्वी के कितने प्रतिशत भाग पर जलमण्डल का विस्तार है? – 71%
  • किस महाद्वीप में एटलस पर्वत स्थित है? – यूरोप
  • विश्व की सबसे बड़ी झील कौन–सी है? – कैस्पियन झील
  • काला सागर किस देश के दक्षिण में स्थित है? – रूस
  • खनिज तेल एवं कोयला किन चट्टानों में पाया जाता है? – अवसादी
  • विश्व में सबसे ऊँचा बाँध कौन-सा है? – रोगवन्स्की (तजाकिस्तान)
  • विश्व में सबसे अधिक जनसंख्या वाले 10 देशों में एशिया में कितने देश हैं? – 6
  • देश का सर्वश्रेष्ठ प्राकृतिक बन्दरगाह कौन–सा है? – विशाखापट्टनम
  • इन्दिरा गाँधी नहर या राजस्थान नहर को किस नदी से जल मिलता है? – सतलज
  • विश्व का सबसे ऊँचा पठार कौन–सा है? – पामीर, तिब्बत का पठार

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