Indian Geography Quiz 3

Chota Nagpur region has vast reserves of coal and iron ore.

Mawsynram is a town in the East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya state in Northeastern India. Mawsynram receives the highest rainfall in India.

Some 200 million years ago, Antarctica was joined to South America, Africa, India​, and Australia in a single large continent called Gondwanaland.

The Indira Gandhi Canal (Rajasthan Canal) is the longest (649km) canal in India and the largest irrigation project in the world.

The Ranjit Sagar Dam (Thein Dam) is part of a hydroelectric project constructed by the Government of Punjab Punjab Irrigation Department on the Ravi River on the Border of two states of India Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab.

The top five salt-producing states in India are Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. Gujarat contributes a whopping 76 percent of India's total salt production because of its arid climate and large land availability.

India lies in the Northern hemisphere, with the mainland extending between latitudes 8°4'N and 37°6'N and longitudes 68°7'E and 97°25'E. Since India lies in Asia, which is in the Eastern Hemisphere.

The Konkan Railway was constructed to fill the missing gap between Roha (near Mumbai) and Mangalore.

Delhi is, officially the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT), is a city and a Union Territory of India whereas New Delhi is the capital of India and an administrative district of Delhi.

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.