IMPORTANT GEOGRAPHICAL

LOCATIONS IN NEWS FOR

UPSC PRELIMS 2020

ONLYIAS
UPSC PREVIOUS YEAR QUESTIONS…..
Q. Which one of the following is not a Harappan site?(UPSC 2019
)(a) Chanhudaro
(b) Kot Diji
(c) Sohgaura
(d) Desalpur
Answer: c
Q. Which one of the following National Parks lies completely in the temperate
alpine zone?(UPSC 2019)
(a) Manas National Park
(b) Namdapha National Park
(c) Neora Valley National Park
(d) Valley of Flowers National Park
Answer: d
Q. Which of the following are in Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve?(UPSC 2019)
(a) Neyyar, Peppara and Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuaries; and Kalakad
Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve
(b) Mudumalai, Sathyamangalam and Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuaries; and Silent
Valley National Park
(c) Kaundinya, Gundla Brahme-swaram and Papikonda Wildlife Sanctuaries; and
Mukurthi National Park
(d) Kawal and Sri Venkateswara Wildlife Sanctuaries; and Nagarjunasagar-
Srisailam Tiger Reserve
Answer: a
Q. Consider the following pairs
Famous place. River
Pandharpur Chandrabhaga
Tiruchirappalli Cauvery
Hampi Malaprabha
Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched?
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer: a
Q.Consider the following pairs: (UPSC 2019)
Sea Bordering country
1. Adriatic Sea Albania
2. Black Sea Croatia
3. Caspian Sea Kazakhstan
4. Mediterranean Sea Morocco
5. Red Sea Syria
Which of the pair given above are correctly matched?
(a) 1, 2 and 4 only
(b) 1, 3 and 4 only
(c) 2 and 5 only
(d) 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
Answer: b
Q. Among the following cities, which one lies on a longitude closest to that of Delhi?
(UPSC 2018)
(a) Bengaluru
(b) Hyderabad
(c) Nagpur
(d) Pune
Answer.a
Q. Consider the following pairs: (UPSC 2018)
Town sometime mentioned in news Country
1.Aleppo –Syria
2.Kirkuk -Yemen
3.Mosul - Palestine
4.Mazar-i-Sharif - Afghanistan
Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched?
(a) 1 and 2
(b) 1 and 4
(c) 2 and 3
(d) 3 and 4
Answer.b
Q. Which one of the following is an artificial lake ? Upsc 2018
(a) Kodaikanal (Tamil Nadu)
(b) Kolleru (Andhra Pradesh)
(c) N ainital (Uttarakhand)
(d) Renuka (Himachal Pradesh)
Answer.a
Q. Consider the following pairs : ups 2018
Regions sometimes mentioned in news Country
1. Catalonia - Spain
2. Crimea - Hungary
3. Mindanao - Philippines
4. Oromia - Nigeria
Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched ?
(a) 1, 2 and 3
(b)) 3 and 4 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 2 and 4 only
Answer.c
Q. In which one of the following States is Pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary
located? Ups 2018
(a) Arunachal Pradesh
(b) Manipur
(c) Meghalaya
(d) Nagaland
Answer.a
Q. Mediterranean Sea is a border of which of the following countries? Ups 2017
1. Jordan
2. Iraq
3. Lebanon
4. Syria
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1, 2 and 3 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 3 and 4 only
(d) 1, 3 and 4 only
Answer. c
Q. Which of the following is geographically closest to Great
Nicobar ?upsc 2017
(a) Sumatra
(b) Borneo
(c) Java
(d) Sri Lanka
Answer. a
What is the correct sequence of occurrence of the following cities in South-East Asia
as one proceeds from south to north? (2014)
1.Bangkok
2.Hanoi
3.Jakarta
4.Singapore
Select the correct answer using the code given below.
1. 4-2-1-3
2. 3-2-4-1
3. 3-4-1-2
4. 4-3-2-1
Solution (c)
Let’s start…….
IMPORTANT INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS IN NEWS
CHAGOS ARCHIPELAGO

• Chagos Archipelago, island group

in the central Indian Ocean,
located about 1,000 miles (1,600
km) south of the southern tip of
the Indian subcontinent.
• southernmost archipelago of
the Chagos-Laccadive Ridge, a
long submarine mountain range in
the Indian Ocean.
SEVEN SUMMIT CHALLENGE

Equator
 SUBIC BAY
• Bay on the west coast of the
island of Luzon in the Philippines
• Have discovered a species of
ancient human Homo Luzonensis
which was previously unknown to
science.
 Dushanbe, Tajikistan

• Note the positions of capitals of

central Asian countries .
• In news: Conference on Interaction
Aral Sea and Confidence Building Measures
in Asia (CICA) Summit was held at
Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
• Land locked countries , which ones?
 STRAIT OF HORMUZ
• Operation sankalp of
Indian Navy at Strait of
Hormuz .
• Near by touching
countries
• Oman or UAE?

Bahrain
 GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH

• Project ocean cleanup to

second attempt to clean up a
huge island of trash swirling in the
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
• Aka Pacific trash vortex, is a gyre
of marine debris particles in the
north-central Pacific Ocean.
• Two enormous masses of ever-
growing garbage” referred to as
the "Eastern Garbage Patch" lies
between Hawaii and California,
while the "Western Garbage
Patch" extends eastward from
Japan to the Hawaiian Islands.
• Location of GPGP and ocean
currents ?
 SARGASSO SEA

• It named for a genus of free-floating seaweed called Sargassum , that are

'holopelagi' - this means that the algae not only freely floats around the
ocean, but it reproduces vegetatively on the high seas
• It lies within the Northern Atlantic Subtropical Gyre
• It is defined only by ocean currents: The Gulf Stream establishes the
Sargasso Sea's western boundary, while the Sea is further defined to the
north by the North Atlantic Current, to the east by the Canary Current,
and to the south by the North Atlantic Equatorial Current
• Located in a calm, windless and waveless zone, has no shoreline
 MOUNT ETNA, ITALY

• Mount Etna is an active composite

volcano on the east coast of Sicily,
Italy.
• It lies above the convergent plate
margin between the African Plate
and the EurasianPlate. It is the
highest active volcano in Europe
outside the Caucasus.
• Location of Sicily and surrounding
waterbodies
 MOUNT SINABUNG, INDONESIA
• Mount Sinabung: It is a
composite volcano in
the Karo plateau of
Karo Regency, North
Sumatra,Indonesia.
 PUERTO WILLIAMS, CHILE

• P u e r t o Wi l l i a m s h a s b e e n
upgraded to the category of “city”
by Chilean authorities, making it
the world’s southernmost city.
• on Navarino Island in the Beagle
Channel in Chile’s far south, Part
of the Tierra del Fuego
archipelago
• Earlier Ushuaia, in Argentina was
the southernmost city.
 GOLAN HIGHTS

• Golan heights, Israeli seized from Syria

in 1967.
• Bordering countries (Israel, Syria,
Jordan, Lebanon)
• Area houses the Jordan River’s (Flow
from north to south) drainage basin, Lake
Tiberias, the Yarmuk River, Banian river

• Sea of Galilee aka Lake Tiberias,

Kinneret or Kinnereth, is a freshwater
lake in Israel. It is the lowest freshwater
lake on Earth and the second-lowest lake
in the world (after the Dead Sea, a
saltwater lake)
 DEAD SEA
• Surrounding countries ?
• Also known as Buhayrat, Bahret or
Birket Lut, “Lake/Sea of Lot” , a salt
lake bordered by Jordan to the east
and Israel and the West Bank to the
west.
• an endorheic lake located in the
Jordan Rift Valley
• the deepest hypersaline lake in the
world,
• Hamas-> Gaza
 AZOV SEA

• It is bounded in the northwest by

Ukraine, in the southeast by
Russia
• To the south it is linked by the
narrow Strait of Kerch to the
Black Sea,
• sometimes regarded as a northern
extension of the Black Sea
• Kerch Strait is the only
connection b/w the Black Sea and
the Sea of Azov
Take a note of important water bodies as baltic sea, black sea, Caspian Sea etc in Europe and Asia as in
you can solve question based on north to south, east to west , nearest or farthest from equator etc.
 KAJIN SARA LAKE, NEPAL

• Kajin Sara lake ,Newly

discovered lake in Nepal will
be the world’s highest
• formed from Himayalan
meltwater ,likely to earn the
distinction of the world’s
highest lake, taking the title
from Tilicho lake (also in
Nepal)
• located at a height of 5200
metres .
 SOME OTHER LOCATION IN NEWS

• Pearl river - China

• Lake baikal- Russia
• Kamchatka island- Russia
• Gibraltar- British Overseas Territory and headland, on Spain's south coast.
 OTHER LOCATIONS IN NEWS

• Herat and Kandahar , City in Afghanistan

• Bonavista Bay located on the island of Newfoundland, Canada. It opens directly onto the
Atlantic Ocean.
• Yeman (Located ? )- Houthis rebels
• Lambahraun lava field - Iceland at the foot︎ of Iceland︎s’ second bigges︎t glacier, Langjok︎ll,
chosen as a stand-in for ︎the red plane︎︎s s︎urface. !
• Ports and Islands in news
1. Duqm port(Oman)
2. Assumption Island (Seychelles)
3. Changi naval base(Singapore)
Arabian peninsula
IMPORTANT LOCATION ON INDIA MAP…….
SADIKPUR SINAULI, UP

• Sinauli is an archaeological site located in

Barot tehsil, Baghpat district, western
Uttar Pradesh, India.
• The site is famous for its Bronze Age
solid disk wheel "chariots", the first ones
to be recovered in archaeological
excavation in South Asia
INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION

• Harappa , lies in Punjab Province, Pakistan, on an old bed of

the River Ravi.
• Mohenjo-daro , in Sindh, Pakistan, next to the Indus River,
not far from the very early human flint mining quarries at
Rohri. Great Bath, uniform buildings and weights, hidden
drains, unicorn seals have been found
• Rupar on bed of Satluj river
• Dholavira is located on Khadir Beyt, an island in the Great
Rann of Kutch in Gujarat .
• Sutkagen Dor in Baluchistan is the westernmost known
Harappan site located on the Pakistani border with Iran.
• Lothal,near Gulf of Khambhat, Gujarat. National
maritime heritage museum by India and Portugal will be
opened implemented by the Ministry of Shipping
through its Sagarmala programme, with the involvement
of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), the State
government and other stakeholders.
• Lothal is located between Sabarmati river and its
tributary Bhogavo, in Saurasthra region ofGujarat. It was
a major maritime activities center ofHarappan
civilization dating from 3700 BC. And has world’s oldest
man-made dockyard
OUSSUDU/OUSTERI LAKE,PUDUCHERRY

• first-of-its-kind Interpretation Centre

for Birds coming up at the premises of
the Department of Forests and Wildlife.
• identified as a wetland of national
importance under the National Wetland
Conservation Programme of the
Ministry of Environment and Forests
(MoEF), and has also been declared one
of the 93 significant wetlands in Asia by
the Asian Wetland Bureau.
• Lies near Coromandal Coast
PUDUCHERRY

•Puducherry districtis - Tamil Nadu.

•Mahé district - Kerala.
•Yanam district - Andhra Pradesh.
•Karaikal district -Tamil Nadu.
 WILDLIFE SANCTUARIES IN
ARUNACHAL PRADESH
1. Talle Wildlife Sanctuary (Protected area)
2. Eagle Nest Wildlife Sanctuary
3. Namdapha Tiger Reserve
4. Mouling National Park
5. Sessa Orchid Sanctuary
6. Pakke/pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary
7. Kamlang Wildlife Sanctuary
8. Kane Wildlife Sanctuary
9. Itanagar Wildlife Sanctuary
10. Mehao Wildlife Sanctuary
11. Dihang Dibang Biosphere Reserve (Dibang Wildlife Sanctuary)
PAKKE TIGER RESERVE

• Also known as Pakhui Tiger Reserve

• bounded by Bhareli or Kameng River in the
west and north, and by Pakke River in the east.
• adjoins reserve forests and Assam's Nameri
National Park. To the west, it is bounded by
Doimara Reserve Forest with an area of
216 km2 (83 sq mi) and Eaglenest Wildlife
Sanctuary
Q. In which one of the following States is Pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary located?
(UPSC 2018)
• (a) Arunachal Pradesh
• (b) Manipur
• (c) Meghalaya
• (d) nagaland
NAMDAPHA TIGER RESERVE

• located in the eastern most corner

of Arunachal Pradesh
• located between the Dapha
bum range of the Mishmi
Hills and the Patkai range
• Namdapha National park
established in the year 1972 was
declared national park and a tiger
reserve in the year 1983.
DIBANG WILDLIFE SANCTUARY

• Dibang Valley is designated as

Dibang Wildlife Sanctuary (DWS)
but has not yet been named a tiger
reserve.
• Idu Mishmi tribe, they who tigers
their elder brothers, fears that
declaring Dibang Wildlife
Sanctuary (DWS) as a tiger
reserve would impact their
livelihood.
MOULING NATIONAL PARK

• Mouling National Park and

the Dibang Wildlife Sanctuary are
located fully or partly
within Dihang-Dibang Biosphere
Reserve
SANCTUARIES AND NATIONAL PARKS IN ASSAM

Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary

 DUMPA TIGER RESERVE, MIZORAM
• In the Lushai Hills
• the Lushai /Mizo Hills , part of Patkai range in Mizoram and Tripura,
India. Highest point is Phawngpui, aka 'Blue Mountain’.
• The Tropic of Cancer' passes through the Dampa Tiger Reserve.Also through Aizawl
• Holds the distinction of housing the highest number of clouded leopards in Southeast
Asia
• In the tiger census of 2018, no tiger was found in this reserve.
• the National Tiger Conservation Authority recommended that tigers from Assam’s
Kaziranga National Park be introduced to Dampa Tiger Reserve. Also in-
• Bengal’s Buxa Tiger Reserve
• Jharkhand’s Palamau Tiger Reserve
• Odisha’s Simlipal National Park

• Which states do not have tiger reserves??

 NILACHAL OR KAMAGIRI HIL, ASSAM

• Ambubachi Mela, annual festival

held at Kamakhya temple, atop
Nilachal hills of Guwahati, Assam
on the bank of Brahmaputra river.
Tropic of Cancer
 MP TIGER RESERVES (6)

• Kanha Tiger Reserve (first tiger reserve in India to officially introduce a

mascot, "Bhoorsingh the Barasingha”)
• Pench Tiger Reserve (has the highest number of tigers among all the protected
areas in India, lies in Satpura range.)
• Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve (highest density of tiger population)
• Satpura Tiger Reserve (lies in Satpura range, has Pandava caves, dhoopgarh
peak, bee fall)
• Sanjay-Dubri Tiger Reserve(on the border of MP and Chhattisgarh, renamed to
"Guru Ghasidas National Park" by the Government of Chhattisgarh, located in
Narmada valley)
• Panna Tiger Reserve (area submerging in ken betwa river interlinking project)
 KARTARPUR CORRIDOR

• Located across river Ravi in

Pakistan, ~4km away from Dera
Baba Nanak shrine in Gurdaspur,
Punjab (India), is Kartarpur Sahib
• Established in 1522 by Guru
Nanak Dev, the Sikh Guru.
 KALESHWARAM IRRIGATION PROJECT, TELANGANA

• a multi-purpose irrigation project on the

Godavari River in Kaleshwaram,
Bhoopalpally, Telangana, India, world's
largest stage lift irrigation project
• at the confluence of the Pranhita and
Godavari rivers
 TELANGANA TIGER RESERVES

Amrabad Tiger Reserve

• IN NEWS:
• for first time re-introduced ‘mouse deer’ in the forests of Nallamalla in Amrabad Tiger Reserve (ATR)
bred at Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabad.
• Dominated by the Chenchus tribe.
• It contains ruins of the ancient Nagarjuna ViswaVidyalayam run by the great Buddhist scholar
Nagarjunacharya (150 AD)
• largest tiger reserve in the country. Earler, it was part of 'Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam Tiger reserve' but
post-bifurcation, the northern part of the reserve is vested with Telangana state and renamed as
'Amrabad Tiger Reserve’.
Kawal Tiger Reserve
• This sanctuary is catchment for the rivers Godavari and Kadam
 ANDHRA PRADESH TR/WS/BR

• Koundinya Wildlife Sanctuary

• Pranahita Wildlife Sanctuary
• Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary (a part of the Godavari estuary and has
extensive mangrove and dry deciduous tropical forest.)
• Nagarjunsagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve ( It is Largest Tiger reserve of
India+ Smallest is Bor TR located in the valley of the Wardha
river ,Maharashtra)
• Seshachalam biosphere
KOUNDINYA SANCTUARY, ANDHRA PRADESH

• A wildlife sanctuary and

an elephant reserve only
sanctuary in Andhra
Pradesh with a population
of Asian elephants
• It has-
• Kalyana Revu WaterFalls
• Kaigal Waterfalls
 POLAVARAM PROJECT, ANDHRA PRADESH

• Polavaram Project , Andhra pradesh, is a multi-

purpose irrigation project which has been accorded
national project status by the union government of
India
• Dam across Godavari river
 SABARIMALA TEMPLE, KERALA

• Located inside the Periyar Tiger

Reserve
• Lie on the bank of Pumba river
MULLAPERIYAR DAM, KERALA

• located on the confluence of the Mullayar

and Periyar rivers in Kerala’s Idukki
district.
• operated and maintained by the Tamil
Nadu.
• The dam intends to divert the waters of the
west-flowing river Periyar eastward to
the arid rain shadow regions of the Tamil
Nadu.
 KERALA TIGER RESERVES

• Parambikolam Tiger reserve

• Silent Valley National Park (located in the Nilgiri
hills)
• Periyar National Park and Tiger Reserve and
elephant reserve, located high in the Cardamom
Hills and Pandalam Hills of the south Western
Ghats along the border with Tamil Nadu)
• Eravikulam National Park(habitat of the
endangered Nilgiri tahr)
 CHATTISHGARH NP/WS/TR

• Udanti wildlife sanctuary (the government has decided to translocate five

female wild buffaloes from Manas National Park in Assam to Udanti
Wildlife Sanctuary in Raipur district, Chhattisgarh).
• Sitanadi wildlife sanctuary
• Udanti -sitanadi tiger reserve
• Indravati national park- derives its name from the nearby Indravati
River(Tributary of Godavari river). It is home to one of the last populations
of rare wild buffalo.
 LOCATIONS IN ODISHA

• Gandhamardhan hills
• medicinal plants
• Bauxite reserve
 VALLEY IN ANDHRA PRADESH

• Araku Valley , in the Eastern Ghats

• Bauxite mined
• Araku Valley Arabica coffee (G I
Tagged)
 TADOBA TIGER RESERVE, MAHARASTRA

• Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve

 MARKANDESWAR GROUP OF TEMPLES, MH

• Markandeshwar group of temples , built

between the 9th and 12th centuries
• dedicated to Lord Shiva called
Markandeshwar or Markandadeo temple
on the banks of the Wainganga river
• famously known as the ‘mini
Khajuraho’ or ‘Khajuraho of Vidarbha’.
• belong to saiva, vaishnava and sakti
faith and Nagara group temples of
North India

The Wainganga is a river in India originating in the Mahadeo Hills, Madhya Pradesh. It is a key
tributary of the Godavari. The river flows through the states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

The Markanda river in Himachal Pradesh and Haryana states of India is a tributary of Ghaggar river.
KUDREMUKH NATIONAL PARK ,KARNATAKA

• tropical wet evergreen type of

forest in the Western Ghats.
• endangered lion-tailed macaque
• Three important rivers, the Tunga,
the Bhadra, and the Nethravathi
have their origin here
• declared a tiger reserve, as part of
the Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary
 MEKEDATU PROJECT, KARNATAKA

• set up by the Karnataka

government, the project is near
Mekedatu, in Ramanagaram
district, across the river Cauvery
from Tamil Nadu.
 CHALLEKARE, KARNATAKA

• In karnataka , artificial lunar

site created here to test the
sensors of Chandrayaan-2
 OTHER IN NEWS LOCATION OF KARNATAKA

• Jog fall aka Gerusoppe falls, Joga jalapatha and Jogada gundi on Sharavati
(originates and flows entirely within the state of Karnataka), west flowing
river) catchment ; second-highest plunge waterfall in India after the
Nohkalikai Falls with a drop of 335 m (1100 ft) in Meghalaya.
• Almatti dam on Krishna river
• Sarakki lake, aka Jaraganahalli lake, Bangalore
 SHIPPING PORTS

• Location of ports- ease/west/ IST 82.5 E

longitude

north/south most? 90 E

• Location from IST and Tropic of longitude

Cancer?
• Krishnapatnam port, Andhra Tropic of Cancer

Pradesh, private sector

– Krishnapatnam port
–
 WETLANDS IN INDIA

Things to note—
• Total (37), largest, smallest
• New addition(10)
• Freshwater or salty?
• Natural and artificial ?
• State/s located in ?
• Inland or on shore ?
• Distance /crossing tropic of cancer
 RAMSAR WETLANDS IN INDIA (NATURAL)

1.Ashtamudi wetland, kerala- natural backwater

2.Beas conservation reserve , punjab (LATEST ADDITION)- host only known population of Indus
River dolphin , natural fresh water lake
3.Bhitarkanika Mangroves, odisha- mangroves
4.Chandra taal, in Rahul and spiti district of Himachal Pradesh- high altitude natural fresh water
lake
5.Chilika Lake, Odisha -brackish back water lagoon, largest coastal lagoon at the mouth of Daya
river
6.Deeper beel, Assam- fresh water lake
7.Hokera wetland, J&K- natural perennial wetland contiguous to the Jhelum basin
8.Keshopur-Miani Community Reserve, Punjab (LATEST ADDITION)- mosaic of natural marshes,
aquaculture ponds and agricultural wetlands maintained by the annual rainfall runoff- natural
wetland
9.Kolluru lake, Andhra Pradesh- natural eutrophic lake, situated between basins of the Godavari
and the Krishna
10.Loktak Lake, Manipur- largest natural freshwater lake, famous for Phumdis; Keibul Lamja,
only floating national park; natural habitat of endangered Sangai or Manipur brow antlered deer
 RAMSAR WETLANDS IN INDIA (NATURAL)
11.Nalsarovar Bird Sanctuary, Gujarat- natural freshwater lake; lifeline of
endangered Indian Wild Ass
12.Nawabganj Bird Sanctuary, UP(LATEST ADDITION)-shallow marshland
feed from Monsoon and Sarda Canal supplies
13.Parvati Arga Bird Sanctuary, UP(LATEST ADDITION)- permanent fresh
water
14.Point Calimere Wildlife and Bird Sanctuary, Tamil Nadu- natural wetland
15.Renuka Lake, Himachal Pradesh- natural freshwater wetland
16.Rudrasagar Lake, Tripura- natural sedimentation reservoirs
17.Saman Bird Sanctuary, UP(LATEST ADDITION)- seasonal natural oxbow
lake
18.Samaspur Bird Sanctuary, UP-(LATEST ADDITION) natural wetland
19.Sambhar Lake, Rajasthan- largest natural inland salt lake
20.Sandi Wetland, UP(LATEST ADDITION)- freshwater natural marsh
 RAMSAR WETLANDS IN INDIA (NATURAL)

21.Sarsai Nawar Jheel, UP(LATEST ADDITION)- natural permanent freshwater

wetland
22.Sasthamkotta Lake, Kerala- natural fresh water lake
23.Sundarbans wetland, West Bengal- natural mangrove wetland
24.Surinsar Mansar Lake, J&K- natural freshwater lake
25.Tsomoriri, J&K- natural fresh to brackish water lake, has no aquatic
vegetation
26.Upper Ganga River (Brijghat to Narora Stretch), UP- natural freshwater
wetland
27.Vembanand-Kol wetland, Kerala- longest lake of india,second largest wetland
after Sundarban, backwater lake, below sea level, AKA Punnamada Lake and
Kochi Lake
28.Wular Lake, J&K- largest natural freshwater lake ,formed due to tectonic
activities, fed by Jhelum river
 RAMSAR WETLANDS IN INDIA (MAN MADE)

29.Bhoj wetland, MP- manmade reservoir

30.East kilkatawelands, West Bengal- complex of natural and human-made
wetland, salt marshes and salt meadows
31.Harike wetland, Punjab - man made wetland at the confluence of Beas
and Satlej
32.kanjli wetland , punjab- man made wetland
33.Keoladeo national park, Rajasthan-A complex of ten artificial, seasonal
lagoons- man made wetland
34.Nandur Madhmeshwar, Maharastra(LATEST ADDITION) - man made
wetland at the confluence of Godavari and Kadwa
35.Nangal Wildlife Sanctuary, Punjab (LATEST ADDITION)- artificial lake on
river Satluj.
36.Pond Dam Lake, Himachal Pradesh- man made reservoir on Beas river
37.Ropar wetland, punjab- man made wetland fron Sutlej Water
 WEST FLOWING RIVERS OF INDIA

• Indus and its tributaries

• Narmada/Rewa/Nerbudda, (rises from Amarkantak Plateau, MP )
• Tapti (rises in Satpura range, MP)
• Mahi (only river to cross tropic of cancer twice)
• Sabarmati (Gujarat)
• Luni (Rajasthan and Gujarat)
• Saravati (originates and flows entirely within the state of Karnataka
in India)
• Pumba (Kerala)
• Periyar (Kerala)
• Bharatpuja (Kerala)
• Ulhas River ( Maharashtra)
• Chopra(Goa)
• Mandovi (Goa)
• Zuari (Goa)
 18 BIOSPHERE RESERVES IN INDIA
◦ Nanda Devi, Uttrakhand
◦ Seshachalam, Andhra Pradesh ◦ Khangchendzonga, Sikkim
◦ Nokrek, Meghalaya
◦ Kachchh, Gujarat (Largest Area)
◦ Pachmarhi, Madhya Pradesh
◦ Panna, Madhya Pradesh(Smallest) ◦ Achanakmar-Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh-
◦ Dehang-Debang, Arunachal Chhattisgarh
Pradesh ◦ Similipal, Odisha
◦ Manas, Assam ◦ Sundarban, West Bengal
◦ Dibru-Saikhowa, Assam ◦ Agasthyamala, Karnataka-Tamil Nadu-
Kerala
◦ Cold Desert, Himachal Pradesh ◦ Nilgiri, Tamil Nadu-Kerala (First to be
Included)
◦ Gulf of Mannar, Tamil Nadu(Largest)
◦ Great Nicobar, Andaman & Nicobar Island

11 biosphere reserves recognized internationally

under Man and Biosphere Reserve program
 82.5 E longitude

90 E longitude • Located in Dibrugarh

and Tinsukia districts of
Assam
• Bounded by the
Brahmaputra and Lohit
Rivers in the north and
Dibru river in the south.
• Moist mixed semi-
evergreen forests, moist
mixed deciduous
forests, canebrakes and
grasslands.
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• In the Satpura Range of Madhya Pradesh

• Includes three wildlife conservation units:
• Bori Sanctuary
• Pachmarhi Sanctuary
• Satpura National Park
• An important transition zone between the
forest species of western and eastern India.
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• A national park and a tiger reserve and Mayurbhanj

Elephant Reserve in Odisha
• Includes three protected areas —
• Similipal Tiger Reserve,
• Hadgarh Wildlife Sanctuary
• Kuldiha Wildlife Sanctuary

• Derives its name from the abundance of red silk cotton

trees growing in the area.
• waterfalls like Joranda and Barehipani Falls

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1986, Part of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and

Karnataka
• Silent Valley National Park
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• Mukurthi National Park
• Bandipur-Nagarhole Tiger Reserve
• Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary
• Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary
• Aralam Wildlife Sanctuary
• Sathyamangalam Wildlife Sanctuary
• Siruvani hills
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• Largest biosphere reserve

• a group of 21 islets lying off the Tamil Nadu coast
• Located on the southeastern tip of the
subcontinent
• Endangered species include dolphins, dugongs,
whales and sea cucumbers
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• National Park lies the Nanda

Devi Sanctuary, a glacial
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Ganga
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• Located in Arunachal Pradesh.

• The Mouling National Park and the Dibang Wildlife
Sanctuary are located fully or partly within this
biosphere reserve
• Habitat ranges from tropical wet evergreen ,
subtropical, temperate, alpine and permanent snow.

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• Extends across the states of
Madhya Pradesh and
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Chhattisgarh (68% area)
• Separates the rivers that drain
into the Arabian Sea and the Bay
of Bengal.
• Source of three major river
systems: the Narmada, the Johilla
and the Son River.
• Maikal hill ranges together with
Vindhya and Satpura lie within
the AABR

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It includes:
• Pin Valley National Park
• Chandratal
• Sarchu
• Kibber Wildlife Sanctuary.
• Located adjacent to the Himalaya Mountains.
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They site
• are not and
Kerala affected
TamilbyNadu.
the Indian monsoons
• Park contains because
Tholung Monastery
• It isthey lie in the
composed ofrain shadow of the
Neyyar,
include temperate broadleaf
Himalayas. and mixed
Peppara and Shendurney
forests
Wildlife Sanctuaries and
• Goecha La pass
Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger
Reserve in Tamil Nadu.
• tropical wet evergreen forests,
[South Western Ghats moist

deciduous forests, South

Western Ghats montane rain
forests and Shola.
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• Located in southern Eastern

Ghats, Andhra Pradesh
Include:
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• Srivenkateshwara
National Park
• endemic species
including the famous
Red Sanders and
Slender Loris.
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• National park, UNESCO

Natural World Heritage site,
a Project Tiger reserve, an
elephant reserve and a
biosphere reserve in Assam,
• Name of the park is
originated from the Manas
River,
• Semi-evergreen forests
ecoregion
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• A mangrove area in
the delta formed by
the confluence of
the Ganga,
Brahmaputra and
Meghna Rivers in
the Bay of Bengal.

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90 E longitude • Located in Dibrugarh

and Tinsukia districts of
Assam
• Bounded by the
Brahmaputra and Lohit
Rivers in the north and
Dibru river in the south.
• Moist mixed semi-
evergreen forests, moist
mixed deciduous
forests, canebrakes and
grasslands.
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Include:
• Campbell Bay National
Park on the northern part
of the island,
• Galathea National Park in
the southern interior.
• Tropical and subtropical
moist broadleaf forests
biome,
• located in the Indomalaya
ecozone.
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• Things to remember while studying maps
• Think out of the box- take help of ups previous year questions
• See the relative distance not just the exact location
• Whenever you look at a particular location, note its nearby areas too
• Note any unique/special feature of that area.

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