General Awareness · Geography
World Facts and Geography
11,577 Questions
World facts and geography encompass global statistics, technological history, and international political systems. This includes facts about research, natural resources, and democratic structures worldwide. Such questions are common in the general awareness papers of SSC, UPSC, and banking exams.
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World Facts and Geography Questions
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South Africa
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Thar desert
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North India
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South America
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South India
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Lama and Alpaca are wool yielding animals found in South America.
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Cape Town region of South Africa
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Great Plains of North America
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North - Eastern Australia
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Southern Algeria
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The Mediterranean climate is characterised by a dry summer, a mild humid winter and abundant sunshine, about 90 percent of the possible sunshine in summer and 50% to 60% even during the rainy winter season.
This happens because of shift of pressure belts as a result of which westerlies bring winter rain.
Mediterranean climates are found 30° and 40°N and latitudes on the western sides of the continents. These climates are found in five regions of the world; The borderlands of the Mediterranean Sea (north of the Mediterranean Sea from Portugal to Turkey and beyond the Iranian Highlands; the southern borderland includes Morocco, northern Algeria, and Tunisia and north of Bengasi in Libya) the Central and California coast in the United States of America; Central Chile; the Capetown area of South Africa; and Southern and South-western coasts of Australia.
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Romania
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Armenia
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Bahamas
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Chad
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Czech Republic
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Australia
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France
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Germany
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Russia
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The US
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Iraq
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Israel
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South Africa
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Yemen
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Syria
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Chile
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Japan
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Philippines
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United States of America
D
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Volcanic mountain St. Helen is located in United States of America.
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4, 1, 3, 2
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4, 1, 2, 3
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1, 4, 3, 2
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1, 4, 2, 3
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The correct sequence of the given provinces from east to west is Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Slovenia and Croatia.
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Chad
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Malawi
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Victoria
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Zambezi
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Lake Victoria acts as the international boundary between Tanzania and Uganda. It is the world's second largest fresh water lake by surface area.
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1, 2, 4, 3
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2, 3, 1, 4
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2, 1, 4, 3
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1, 2, 3, 4
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According to data of 2010, population of Indonesia is 242 million, population of Brazil is 201 million, population of Japan is 126.8 million and population of Russia is 139.3 million, so the descending order of the size of the country is Indonesia, Brazil, Japan and Russia.
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Amazon
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Missouri
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St. Lawrence
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Zambezi
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Victoria Falls is a waterfall in southern Africa on the Zambezi River at the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt
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Lebanon, Syria, Turkey and Jordan
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Cyprus, Turkey, Jordan and Egypt
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Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Yemen
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Israel has common borders with Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt.
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Armenia
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Azerbaijan
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Kazakhstan
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Turkmenistan
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Armenia is a land-locked country.
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China
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Malaysia
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Cambodia
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Laos
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Mekong is a major river in south eastern Asia. Mekong is called Lncang in China. It runs through the Yunan province of China, and it forms the border between Myanmar and Laos and most of the border between Laos and Thailand and flows across Cambodia and Southern Vietnam before emptying to South China. So, Malaysia is the correct answer.
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Russia
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Estonia
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Lithuania
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Poland
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Latvia does not share its border with Poland because it is located between Estonia, Russia, Belarus, Lithuania, Gulf of Riga and Baltic Sea.
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Poland
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Ukraine
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Belarus
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North Sea
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Ukraine does not border Lithuania. The bordering countries to Lithuania are Lativia, Russia, Poland, and Belarus. Baltic Sea is located in the west.