UPSC World Geography Test 2 (Old Year Questions)

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President Bush designated an Island chain spanning nearby 2250 km of the Pacific Ocean as a national monument. The region contains 70% of the tropical shallow water coral reefs in U.S. The reserve is the world’s largest protect marine area.

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Amazon – 6570 km (longest river of the world) Amur – 2825 km (A river in N-E Asia) Congo – 4667 km (Second largest river of Africa) Lena – 4410 km (A river in Siberia)

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London, Lisbon and Accra cities are situated approximately on the same longitude away from Addis Ababa showing the same clock time.

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Dover Strait is between English Channel and North Sea. Dover is the strait at the narrowest part of the English Channel. The shortest distance across the strait is from the South Foreland, some 6 km north-east of Dover in the country of Kent, England. The strait lies at the east end of the English Channel, where it joins the North Sea. Its width is the shortest distance between France and England.

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Dover Strait is between English Channel and North Sea. Dover is the strait at the narrowest part of the English Channel. The shortest distance across the strait is from the South Foreland, some 6 km north-east of Dover in the country of Kent, England. The strait lies at the east end of the English Channel, where it joins the North Sea. Its width is the shortest distance between France and England.

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Nicaragua is likely to pursue an ambitious $20 b project to create an alternative to Panama canal. This project would redraw the map of the world trade by opening an east coast of North America, Europe, Brazil to large scale sea traffic from pacific Rim countries like China and South Korea.

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‘Horse latitudes’ are sub tropical high pressure belts extends between 300-350 (250-350) latitudes in both the hemispheres.

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Copacabana Beach is located right in the heart of Rio de Janeiro, it is also one of the most lively beaches of the world. It is famous for its 4 km beach. It plays host to millions of revelers during the annual New Year’s Eve celebrations.

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Harmattan is a dusty land-wind of the West African coast. The length of terrestrial mile (1.6 km) is lesser than that of a nautical mile (1.85 km). Greece and Albania forms a part of Balkan peninsula, Portugal and Spain forms Iberian peninsula.

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Slovenia – Ljubljana, Seychelles – Victoria, Sierra Leone – Freetown, Uzbekistan – Tashkent Bratislava is the capital city of Slovakia.

Ans c
Davos, the venue of the annual meeting of World Economic Forum is located in Switzerland.

Ans b
Claims to the historical Macedonian territory have been a bone of contention between Bulgaria and Greece. The old European civilization flourished in Macedonia between 7000 and 3500 B.C. The existence of Macedonian nation was permanently distributing the neighbouring countries viz., Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Albania.

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Diamantia Trench is situated in the South east Indian Ocean basin. It is the deepest trench of the Indian Ocean (8,047 m).

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Bermuda triangle extends upto southern Florida San Juan and Puerto Rico in the Atlantic Ocean. Hawaii islands are present in Pacific ocean. This triangle is noted for a high incidence of unexplained losses of ships, small boats and aircraft.

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To orbit around the Sun, the planet Mars (Red planet) takes more time (687 days) than time taken by Earth (365 ¼ days). The diameter of the planet Mars (6,787 km) is less than that of the Earth (12,756 km).

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Pyinmana is the new administration capital with strategic importance proposed for Myanmar. Present capital is ‘Yangon’.

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Myanmar is bordered by Thailand, Laos, Bangladesh, China and China.