Top 100 Indian Geography Quiz Questions with Answers

1. What is India’s main geography form?
   Answer: Mountains, deserts, plains, and islands

2. What is the only tallest mountain range that forms a barrier between India and mainland Asia?
   Answer: Himalayas

3. Name the plateau which is a triangular, elevated area in southern India.
   Answer: Peninsular Plateau

4. Which is a fertile plain in northern India, created by soil deposited by rivers from the Himalayas?
   Answer: Indo-Gangetic Plain

5. What is the name of the desert situated in northwest India?
   Answer: Thar Desert

6. What is the shape of India?
   Answer: Triangular

7. What is the meaning of Peninsula (India)?
   Answer: Surrounded by water on three sides

8. The Tropic of ______ passes through the middle of India?
   Answer: Cancer

9. What is the total length of the northern plain in India?
   Answer: 2,400 km

10. What is the land boundary of India?
    Answer: 15,200 km (9,400 miles)

11. What is the name of India’s largest lake?
    Answer: Vembanad Lake

12. What is the name of the archipelagos in India?
    Answer: Andaman and Nicobar Islands

13. Name the archipelagos recently famous after PM Narendra Modi’s visit?
    Answer: Lakshadweep Islands

14. What is the name of India’s longest river which separates India from Bangladesh?
    Answer: Ganges River

15. Which are the important rivers included in India’s River System?
    Answer: Indus, Yamuna, and Brahmaputra

16. Which river is popularly known as the ‘Dakshin Ganga’?
    Answer: Godavari

17. From which river does the Rajasthan canal receive water?
    Answer: Satluj

18. What is the total length of India’s coastline including Andaman, Nicobar, and Lakshadweep?
    Answer: 7,516.6 km

19. Which is the busiest international seaport in India?
    Answer: Mumbai

20. What is the last geographical land or 11 km of India?
    Answer: Arichal Munai

• What is the broadly classified climate in India with high temperatures and dry winters?
  Answer: Tropical monsoon

• What is the approximate percentage contribution of the southwest monsoon to India’s total rainfall?
  Answer: 80-90%

• Where in India is most likely to experience cyclones?
  Answer: Puri (Odisha)

• Laterite soil is mainly formed in hot and wet tropical areas and is found mostly in which state?
  Answer: Karnataka

• What was the primary reason for setting up the Damodar Valley Corporation?
  Answer: Flood control

• Gully erosion is responsible for the formation of ____________.
  Answer: Chambal Ravines

• Which place in India has the highest annual rainfall?
  Answer: Mawsynram

• Which is the driest place in India?
  Answer: Leh

• What is also called the ‘mystery lake’ of India?
  Answer: Roopkund Lake

• Chilika Lake is located in which state?
  Answer: Odisha

31. How India stands apart from the rest of Asia?
    Answer: For the mountain and sea

32. What is the “Last Land of India”?
    Answer: Dhanushkodi (Tamil Nadu)

33. What is the India-China border called?
    Answer: The McMahon Line

34. In which state is the southernmost point (Indira Point) of India located?
    Answer: Great Nicobar

35. Which states share borders with Bangladesh?
    Answer: Meghalaya, Assam, West Bengal, Tripura

36. The foothills region of the Himalayas is known as __________?
    Answer: Shivalik

37. The expansion of India is between ____________.
    Answer: 37° 6′ North and 8° 4′ North

38. How many Indian states does the Tropic of Cancer pass through?
    Answer: 8

39. What is the longitude of “Standard Meridian”?
    Answer: 82° 30′ E

40. The Indian Standard Time is taken from which city of India?
    Answer: Naini (Allahabad)

41. Who is the father of “Indian Geography”?
    Answer: James Rennell

42. What is the full form of India?
    Answer: The Republic of India

43. What are the other names of India?
    Answer: Bharat, Aryavarta, Hindustan, Tenjiku, and Jambudweep

44. What is India’s total geographical area?
    Answer: 32,87,263 sq. km.

45. What is India’s position in the world as per geographical land?
    Answer: 7th largest country

46. Who made India’s first map?
    Answer: James Rennell

47. How old is India’s civilization?
    Answer: 5000 years old

48. What was India’s first advanced society that arose around 3000 BC?
    Answer: The Indus Valley Civilization

49. How old is India considered as a nation-state?
    Answer: 78 years (2025)

50. Who made the first flag of India in 1921?
    Answer: Pingali Venkayya

51. What is the largest state in India by area?
    Answer: Rajasthan (342,239 sq. km.)

52. How many districts are there in India now?
    Answer: 788

53. What is the largest district in India?
    Answer: Kutch (Gujarat)

54. What is the smallest district in India by area?
    Answer: Mahe (Puducherry)

55. Which island lies in the Indian Ocean?
    Answer: Kachchateevu Island

56. Which state has the smallest coastline in India?
    Answer: Goa

57. Vindhya Range is bounded by the Central Highlands on the south and the _________ is on the northwest.
    Answer: Aravali Range

58. Central Highlands of Indian Peninsular blocks are formed of hard __________.
    Answer: Igneous and metamorphic rock

59. Which passes are located in Uttarakhand?
    Answer: Lipu Lekh, Thang La, Niti Pass, Muling La

60. What is the highest peak of Madhya Pradesh, located in the Satpura Range?
    Answer: Dhoopgarh

1. Which minerals are found in the plateau regions of India?
   Answer: Coal, Manganese, and Iron ore

2. What is the size of marginal landholding in India?
   Answer: Less than 1 hectare

3. Which is the most productive soil in India?
   Answer: Alluvial Soil

4. What is an example of Laterite soil?
   Answer: Zonal Soil

5. Laterite soil is mainly found in which state?
   Answer: Karnataka

6. What is the position of Gujarat in cotton textile production in India?
   Answer: Second largest

7. Which state is the largest wheat-producing district in Uttar Pradesh?
   Answer: Gorakhpur

8. Barabanki district is the largest producer of ________ in Uttar Pradesh.
   Answer: Opium

9. What is known as ‘White Gold’ in Maharashtra?
   Answer: Cotton

10. Which industry is in Koraput, Odisha, for aircraft building?
    Answer: Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL)

1. Bhadla Solar Park is situated in which state of India?
   Answer: Rajasthan

2. Which solar projects are available in Madhya Pradesh?
   Answer: Welspun Solar MP Project

3. What is the name of the solar power project in Tamil Nadu?
   Answer: Kamuthi Solar Power Project

4. As per the National Solar Mission, India is looking forward to increasing solar generation capacity to 100 GW by which year?
   Answer: 2022

5. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation was established in which year?
   Answer: 1956

6. Which is the largest oilfield in India?
   Answer: Bombay High Oilfield

7. Which types of irrigation are the easiest source of irrigation?
   Answer: Wells & Tubewells

8. In which year was the Nuclear Power Corporation of India established?
   Answer: 1987

9. What was the primary reason for setting up the Damodar Valley Corporation?
   Answer: Flood control

10. What is India’s longest railway tunnel?
    Answer: Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel

1. In which period in the demographic history of India is known as the Population Explosion period?
   Answer: 1951 to 1981

2. In which migration movement do people move from a village to a small town and later to a city?
   Answer: Step-wise migration

3. In which state does the majority of the largest Christian population live (87.92%)?
   Answer: Nagaland

4. Where is the highest urban population in India?
   Answer: Maharashtra

5. How many zonal councils were established in India?
   Answer: 6 zonal councils

• India is strategically located in which ocean?
  Answer: Indian Ocean

• What is the percentage of India’s geographical area in the total area of the world?
  Answer: 2.40%

• The Zoji La Pass is in which mountain range in the Indian Union Territory of Ladakh?
  Answer: Zanskar Range

• Which state does not share its border with Myanmar?
  Answer: Sikkim

• The Ambala region is a water divide between which two river systems?
  Answer: Ganga and Indus River

1. Which tribe’s kingdom was known as “Garha Katanga” as mentioned in the Akbar Nama about the great Gond queen Rani Durgavati?
   Answer: Gond Tribe

2. What is the difference between GMT and IST?
   Answer: Indian Standard Time (IST) is ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) by 5 hours 30 minutes.

3. Which system is the most mineralized rock system of India?
   Answer: Dharwar System

4. Which type of forest is found in the Western Ghats, Northeast India, and the foothills of the Himalayas?
   Answer: Tropical Moist Deciduous

5. For the construction of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, pink sandstone is quarried from which place?
   Answer: Bharatpur

6. What is the name of the busiest international sea port in India?
   Answer: Mumbai

7. The McMahon Line separates India from which country?
   Answer: China

8. What is related to the Blue Revolution in India?
   Answer: Pisciculture (Fish Farming)

9. Which is the largest producer of cotton in India?
   Answer: Gujarat

10. Which is the largest oil-producing state in India?
    Answer: Rajasthan

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