Indian Geography Quiz 3

There are more than 8000 registered factories only in the Greater Mumbai, out of which 350 belong to cotton textile. The other industries of the region are engineering goods, chemical industries, food-processing industries, leather goods, pharmaceutical, and film industries.

Smallest Union Territory: Lakshadweep (32 Sq km). Largest Union Territory: Andaman and Nicobar Islands (8,249 Sq km).

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

Cyclones form due to very low air pressure above the warm tropical waters of an ocean. The Bay of Bengal is prone to cyclones because a lot of typhoons that originate in the southwestern Pacific ocean get carried northwest towards India (Andhra Pradesh and Orissa).

Jharia coalfield is a large coal field located in Jharia, Jharkhand. Jharia represents the largest coal reserves in India having estimated reserves of 19.4 billion tonnes of coking coal.

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.

The Yarlung Tsangpo, also called Yarlung Zangbo or Yalu Zangbu is the upper stream of the Brahmaputra River located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

The Nathpa Jhakri project, which began in 1993, is for a 1,530MW installation on the upper reaches of the river Satluj in the Kinnaur and Shimla districts of Himachal Pradesh.

The Mettur Dam is the largest in Tamil Nadu, located across the river Cauvery where it enters the plains. Mettur Dam Hydro Power Project is a small town in Salem District, Tamil Nadu.

The Eden Canal was built in 1904 from Kanchannagar to Jamalpur and was linked to the Damodar canals. It provides irrigation to 10,000 hectares of land in Barddhaman district of West Bengal.