Indian Geography Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

Which village in Meghalaya, on the crest of hills facing the Bay of Bengal, records the highest average annual rainfall on Earth?

Question 2

Which name is given to the narrow western coastal plain between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea, running from around Mumbai south to Goa?

Question 3

Which natural fibre, grown mostly in the Ganga delta of West Bengal and used for sacking and bags, does India produce more of than any other country?

Question 4

On the banks of which river, a major tributary of the Krishna, stand the ruins of Hampi, capital of the Vijayanagara Empire?

Question 5

What is the name of the hot, dry and often dangerous wind that blows across the plains of north India on summer afternoons before the monsoon?

Question 6

How many union territories does India have after the 2019 and 2020 reorganisations?

Question 7

What is the name of the southernmost point of Indian territory, on Great Nicobar Island?

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About Indian Geography

How well do you know the geography of India, the seventh-largest country in the world and the most populous? This quiz has one hundred and twenty-five questions in five packs of twenty-five, written the way people search: which is the largest state, which river is the longest, where does India get the most rain, which state has the only wild lions, what is the highest railway bridge in the world.

The answer is always one of four choices of the same kind, and the question never contains it. A short note after each answer fills in the figures, the location and the background.

The first pack covers the political map: the twenty-eight states and eight union territories and their extremes of size and population, the capital, the seven land neighbours, the Radcliffe and McMahon lines and the Line of Control, the standard meridian, and the four extreme points of the country. The second pack covers landforms: the Himalaya and Kangchenjunga and Nanda Devi, the Western and Eastern Ghats, the Deccan, Aravalli, Vindhya and Nilgiri ranges, the Thar Desert and the Rann of Kutch, and the great lakes from Wular to Vembanad. The third pack is rivers: the Ganga and its source and delta, the Brahmaputra, the Godavari, Krishna and Kaveri, the Indus Waters Treaty and the five rivers of the Punjab, and the rivers called the sorrow of Bengal and of Bihar.

The fourth pack is climate, soils, farming and wildlife: the south-west and north-east monsoons, the wettest and driest places, black and alluvial and laterite soils, the Green Revolution and Operation Flood, the leading states for rice, wheat, tea and coffee, and the parks that protect the tiger, the rhino and the Asiatic lion. The fifth pack is economic geography: coal, iron ore and diamonds, the oil fields and the Jamnagar refinery, the biggest cities and their industries, the Golden Quadrilateral and the longest highway, the World Heritage railways, the container ports, and the island territories.

About a fifth of the questions carry a photograph of the place or feature named in the question, chosen so that it does not give the answer away. Every fact has been checked.