Geography · General Awareness
Indian States Geography
2,375 Questions
Indian states geography involves analyzing demographic data, crop production, and geographical area rankings across the country. This is a highly tested section in staff selection and civil services preliminary exams. The practice questions focus on population density, literacy rates, and regional agricultural outputs.
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Indian States Geography Questions
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Rajasthan
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Gujarat
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Andhra Pradesh
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Karnataka
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Tamil Nadu
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This is the correct answer. The largest wind farm cluster is located in Tamil Nadu from Nagarcoil to Madurai.
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Karnataka
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Assam
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Tamil Nadu
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Gujarat
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Other than Kerala, Tamil Nadu has already achieved the replacement level of fertility. The provisional Census 2011 figures suggest that four south Indian States i.e. Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu are already having achieved the replacement level fertility of 2.1 children per women required to initiate the process of population stabilization.
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Goa
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Kerala
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Sikkim
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Manipur
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Area wise the second smallest state of India is Sikkim. With around 607,000 inhabitants as of 2011, Sikkim is the least populous state in India and the second-smallest state after Goa in total area, covering approximately 7,096 km2
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Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh
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Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh
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Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar
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Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and W. Bengal
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Ganges plain occupy area in the states of Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar. Among the largest cities of the Indo-Gangetic plain are Karachi, Hyderabad, Multan, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Lahore, Amritsar, Ludhiana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Jaipur, Kanpur, Lucknow, Allahabad, Varanasi, Patna, Kolkata, Guwahati and Dhaka. In this region, it is hard to define where one megalopolis begins and one ends.
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West Bengal
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Bihar
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Kerela
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Pudducheery
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Kerela has the highest sex ratio in India as per 2001 census. As the data given by the Census of India 2001 and 2011 results states that Kerala has the highest sex ratio while Haryana has the lowest sex ratio among states and Daman & Diu has the lowest among all states and territories. Kerala has 1058 women per 1000 men.
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Dadra and Nagar Haveli
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Puduchhery
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Lakshadweep
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Daman and Diu
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Daman and Diu has the lowest sex ratio in India. As the data given by the Census of India 2001 and 2011 results states that Kerala has the highest sex ratio while Haryana has the lowest sex ratio among states and Daman & Diu has the lowest among all states and territories. Daman and Diu has 709 women per 1000 men.
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Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh
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Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra
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Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan
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Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh
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The three largest states of India in the correct descending order are Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra where Rajasthan covers an area of 342240 km2, Maharashtra has 307713 km2 and Madhya Pardesh has an area of 308144 km2.
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Uttar Pradesh
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Kerala
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Sikkim
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Goa
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West Bengal, Bihar and Assam
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Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan
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Kerala and Tamil Nadu
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Karnataka and Kerala
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Jute cultivation in India is mainly practiced in West Bengal, Bihar and Assam.
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Kerela
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Karnataka
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Maharashtra
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Gujarat
D
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Gujarat has the longest coastal area. Gujarat is situated on the west coast of Indian peninsula. The state is bound by the Arabian Sea on the west, Pakistan and Rajasthan in the north and northeast, Maharashtra in the south and Madhya Pradesh in the southeast.
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Chandigarh
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Goa
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Himachal Pradesh
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Delhi
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Chandigarh.
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Delhi
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Daman and Diu
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None of these
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Kerala
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Goa
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Karnataka
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Tamil Nadu
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Kerala was the first Indian state to achieve 100 percent literacy, a milestone it reached in the early 1990s.
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UP
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Madhya Pradesh
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Bihar
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Orissa
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Madhya Pradesh has the largest population of Scheduled Tribes in India according to census data. This is due to its large geographical area and significant tribal forest-dwelling communities.
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Lakshadweep
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Pondicherry
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Daman and Diu
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Dadra and Nagar Haveli
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Lakshadweep is the smallest Union Territory of India in terms of both land area and population. It consists of a small archipelago off the southwestern coast.