Indian Geography Quiz 3

The coastal tract of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu is Coromandel Coast on Bay of Bengal. Andhra Pradesh has the second-longest coastline in India after Gujarat with a length of 974 km, along with Coromandel Coast. Coastline of Tamil Nadu is part of Coromandel Coast and is the third-longest coastline (940 Km) in the country.

Purvanchal Range lies towards the south of the Brahmaputra valley. These ranges cover Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, and eastern Assam states.

Visakhapatnam Port is the only major port of Andhra Pradesh. It is India's third largest state-owned port by volume of cargo handled and largest on the Eastern Coast.

Four out of the 36 Biodiversity Hotspots in the world are present in India: the Himalayas, the Western Ghats, the Indo-Burma region and the Sundaland (Includes group of Islands). These hotspots have numerous endemic species.

The Ahom crossed the Patkai Range from Burma (now Myanmar) and conquered the local chieftains of the upper Assam plain. In the 15th century the Ahom, who gave their name to the region, were the dominant power in upper Assam.

Ocean currents do not have influence over the climate in India. Ocean currents act much like a conveyer belt, transporting warm water and precipitation from the equator toward the poles and cold water from the poles back to the tropics.

Patna is the northern-most city among the given cities/towns.

Comets is an object in space that looks like a bright star with a tail and that revolves around the sun.

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 Konkan Railway is operated by the Konkan Railway Corporation, with its headquarters at CBD Belapur in Navi Mumbai. The first passenger train ran on Konkan railway tracks on 20 March 1993, between Udupi and Mangalore. The total length of the line is about 756.25 km.