Indian Geography Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

Which state is the largest producer of both wheat and sugarcane in India?

Question 2

From the snout of which glacier, at a place called Gaumukh in Uttarakhand, does the headstream of the Ganga emerge?

Question 3

Which desert, also called the Great Indian Desert, covers much of western Rajasthan and extends into Pakistan?

Question 4

Which river, rising at Yamunotri and joining the Ganga at Prayagraj, is the longest tributary of the Ganga and flows past Delhi and Agra?

Question 5

Which southern river's water is the subject of a long and bitter sharing dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu?

Question 6

Which island in the Andaman Sea holds the only confirmed active volcano in South Asia?

Question 7

Which name is given to the narrow western coastal plain between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea, running from around Mumbai south to Goa?

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About Indian Geography

How well do you know the geography of India, the seventh-largest country in the world and the most populous? This quiz has one hundred and twenty-five questions in five packs of twenty-five, written the way people search: which is the largest state, which river is the longest, where does India get the most rain, which state has the only wild lions, what is the highest railway bridge in the world.

The answer is always one of four choices of the same kind, and the question never contains it. A short note after each answer fills in the figures, the location and the background.

The first pack covers the political map: the twenty-eight states and eight union territories and their extremes of size and population, the capital, the seven land neighbours, the Radcliffe and McMahon lines and the Line of Control, the standard meridian, and the four extreme points of the country. The second pack covers landforms: the Himalaya and Kangchenjunga and Nanda Devi, the Western and Eastern Ghats, the Deccan, Aravalli, Vindhya and Nilgiri ranges, the Thar Desert and the Rann of Kutch, and the great lakes from Wular to Vembanad. The third pack is rivers: the Ganga and its source and delta, the Brahmaputra, the Godavari, Krishna and Kaveri, the Indus Waters Treaty and the five rivers of the Punjab, and the rivers called the sorrow of Bengal and of Bihar.

The fourth pack is climate, soils, farming and wildlife: the south-west and north-east monsoons, the wettest and driest places, black and alluvial and laterite soils, the Green Revolution and Operation Flood, the leading states for rice, wheat, tea and coffee, and the parks that protect the tiger, the rhino and the Asiatic lion. The fifth pack is economic geography: coal, iron ore and diamonds, the oil fields and the Jamnagar refinery, the biggest cities and their industries, the Golden Quadrilateral and the longest highway, the World Heritage railways, the container ports, and the island territories.

About a fifth of the questions carry a photograph of the place or feature named in the question, chosen so that it does not give the answer away. Every fact has been checked.