Prelims Map Based Questions - 4 - UPSC MCQ

From African side four countries touch Red sea Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Djibouti

Sequence starting from West to East.

• Recently due to the blockage of the Suez Canal, the option of re-routing ships via the Cape of Good Hope was explored thus this part became relevant.
• The Cape of Good Hope is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa. Commonly Cape of Good Hope  is considered as  the southern tip of Africa but as per Contemporary geographic knowledge the southernmost point of Africa is Cape Agulhas. However The Cape of Good Hope marks the point where a ship begins to travel more eastward than southward.
• Cape Point is the southeast corner of the Cape Peninsula, a mountainous and scenic landform that runs north-south in South Africa. Cape Point is often mistakenly claimed to be the place where the cold Benguela Current of the Atlantic Ocean and the warm Agulhas Current of the Indian Ocean collide but  the meeting point fl uctuates along the southern and southwestern Cape coast, usually occurring between Cape Agulhas and Cape Point. 
• Cape Hangklip is  located near Pringle Bay, Western Cape, South Africa
• Cape Agulhas is a rocky headland in Western Cape, South Africa. It is the geographic southern tip of the African continent and the beginning of the dividing line between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

Statement 3 is incorrect. Benin does not fall on Prime Meridian

• Statement 1 is incorrect: The Tropic of Capricorn passes through fi ve countries.
• Statement 2 is incorrect: The Tropic of Cancer passes through seven countries.

Statement 3 is incorrect. The Western Desert of Egypt is an area of the Sahara that lies west of the river Nile, up to the border of Libya and south of the Mediterranean Sea till the border of Sudan.

Option (a) is the correct: sequence starting from East to West.

Options A, B, C, D show Matsya, Avanti, Vatsa and AngaMahajanapada respectively. Matsya Mahajanapada was located in Jaipur region of Rajasthan. Viratnagar was its capital. Avanti Mahajanapada was located in the west and central region of Malwa. It had two parts- Northern Avanti (capital-Ujjayini) and Southern Avanti (capital-Mahishmati). Modern Allahabad and Banda districts constituted Vatsa Mahajanapada in ancient times. Its capital was Kaushambi. Modem Bhagalpur and Munger districts of Bihar were under the Anga Mahajanapada. Its capital was Champa. 

Four Northeast Indian states share the border with Myanmar: Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Mizoram, and Manipur.

Statement 2 and 3  are  incorrect. Lake Chad is bordered by Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria.

Tristan da Cunha

Option b is the correct: sequence starting from north to south.

Statement 1 and 4 are incorrect. These countries are not landlocked.

Statement 2 is incorrect: River Senegal is located in western Africa in and fl ows from Senegal, Mauritania, and Mali.

Ujjain, located in Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh is considered as the ancient historical town of India. This was one of the two capitals of Avanti which was one among the 16 Mahajanapadas. It is also known as Avantika.

The given map is related to Ashoka. Ashoka’s rock and pillar edicts give us the correct information about his empire. The whole India came under the kingdom of Ashoka, except Assam and some of the southern part of India.