World Political Geography & Major Straits Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

What kinds of strategic vulnerabilities are generally cited as most significant given the world economy's heavy reliance on a comparatively small number of narrow maritime chokepoints such as those discussed throughout this pack?

Question 2

How many continents are generally recognised under the traditional model most commonly used in standard geography teaching, alongside various alternative models used in some countries?

Question 3

Recalling the earlier discussion of Doklam, near which particular tri-junction point do the international boundaries of India, Bhutan and China all meet?

Question 4

Which village in Arunachal Pradesh is generally cited as marking India's easternmost inhabited point, close to the country's disputed border with China?

Question 5

Which narrow sea passage, located between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra, is generally regarded as the busiest and most important shipping chokepoint in the world by total vessel traffic?

Question 6

Which two countries are generally recognised as sharing the longest international land border found anywhere in the world, running along the forty-ninth parallel for much of its length?

Question 7

Which country is generally recognised as the largest landlocked country in the world by total land area, situated across parts of both Central Asia and Eastern Europe?

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About World Political Geography & Major Straits

This quiz is meant for students preparing for the IAS examination and other competitive tests, and for anyone who wants a wide-ranging survey of world political geography, with special emphasis on the great maritime chokepoints and the political boundaries that most often appear in current affairs. It begins with the basics of world political geography -- continents, landlocked and doubly landlocked countries, enclaves, microstates and time zones. It then covers the world's most important straits -- Malacca, Hormuz, Gibraltar, the Bosphorus and Dardanelles, Bab-el-Mandeb and several more -- followed by a pack on further straits and the great artificial canals, Suez and Panama among them. A fourth section covers contested political boundaries and buffer states -- the Durand Line, the McMahon Line, the Radcliffe Line, the thirty-eighth parallel and the alliances that grew up around the Cold War's Iron Curtain. It closes with India's own place in this world -- its neighbours, its disputed frontiers and its maritime chokepoints. When complete it will have one hundred and twenty carefully checked questions, arranged in five packs of twenty-four.

Every question has four options, and the correct option can be in any position. After each question there is a detailed explanation of more than five lines, in simple Indian English that a school student can follow, giving the important names, locations and the points that examiners like to test.

Every fact has been checked against standard reference material on world political geography and international relations.