Indian Geography Online Quiz

Sundarbans is a mangrove area in the delta formed by the confluence of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna Rivers in the Bay of Bengal. It spans from the Hooghly River in West Bengal (India) to the Baleswar River in Bangladesh's division of Khulna.

West Singhbhum is the top iron-ore mining district of Jharkhand.

The three major rainforests in India lie mainly in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Western Ghats and the Northeast Himalayas. However, some smaller ones can even be found in remote locations like Odisha, Naga Hills Manipur, etc.

Most of the major rivers of the peninsula such as the Mahanadi, the Godavari, the Krishna and the Cauvery (Kaveri) flow eastwards and drain into the Bay of Bengal. West flowing rivers such as the Narmada, the Tapi drained into the Arabian Sea.

HIMADRI is India's first research station located at the International Arctic Research base, Ny-Alesund, Svalbard, Norway. It is located at a distance of 1,200 kilometres from the North Pole.

The Bhilai Steel Plant, located in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, is India's first and main producer of steel rails, as well as a major producer of wide steel plates and other steel products. It was set up in collabouration with Soviet Union (Russia) in 1955.

Cosmic rays are high-energy protons and atomic nuclei that move through space at nearly the speed of light. They originate from the sun, from outside of the solar system in our own galaxy, and from distant galaxies. Parts of Kerala and Tamil Nadu are high background radiation areas (HBRA) because of the presence of large quantities of monazite in the soil.

India measures 3,214 km from north to south and 2,933 km from east to west. It has a land frontier of 15,200 km and a coastline of 7,516.6 km.

Madhya Pradesh produces the maximum manganese in India. Next in the order of production are Maharashtra and Odisha.