General Awareness · Geography

World Facts and Geography

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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

Multiple choice
  1. Cape Town region of South Africa

  2. Great Plains of North America

  3. North - Eastern Australia

  4. Southern Algeria

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

 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.

Multiple choice
  1. 1, 2, 4, 3

  2. 2, 3, 1, 4

  3. 2, 1, 4, 3

  4. 1, 2, 3, 4

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

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.

Multiple choice
  1. Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt

  2. Lebanon, Syria, Turkey and Jordan

  3. Cyprus, Turkey, Jordan and Egypt

  4. Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Yemen

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A Correct answer
Explanation

Israel has common borders with Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt.

Multiple choice
  1. China

  2. Malaysia

  3. Cambodia

  4. Laos

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

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.