Map Based Test - 3 - UPSC MCQ

Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Myanmar

• The Buxa Tiger Reserve (BTR) is a 760-square-kilometre (290 sq mi) tiger reserve located inside the Buxa National Park in West Bengal, India, in the Buxa Hills of the southern hilly area of Bhutan.
• Governing body Ministry of Environment and Forests. Government of India

Thailand, Bangladesh, India, China, Laos, Thailand

• Kanha Tiger Reserve, also called Kanha National Park, is one of the tiger reserves of India and the largest national park of Madhya Pradesh, state in the heart of India.

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  Kanha National Park was created on 1 June 1955 and in 1973 was made the Kanha Tiger Reserve. It’s the largest National Park in Central India. Kanha Tiger Reserve was ranked in the top 10 Famous Places for Tourists.

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  The park has a significant population of Bengal tiger, Indian leopards, the sloth bear, barasingha and Indian wild dog.

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  The forest depicted in the famous novel by Rudvard Kipling, The Jungle Book is said to be based on the jungles of this reserve.

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  It is also the first tiger reserve in India to officially introduce a mascot, "Bhoorsingh the Barasingha".

The port of Chabahar is located on the Makran coast of Sistan and Baluchistan Province, next to the Gulf of Oman and at the mouth of Strait of Hormuz. It is the only Iranian port with direct access to the Indian Ocean. Being close to Afghanistan and the Central Asian countries of Turkmenistan. Uzbekistan etc., it has been termed the "Golden Gate" to these land-locked countries.

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• Haryana
• Rajasthan
• Gujarat

• The Indira Gandhi Canal is one of the largest canal projects in India. It starts from the Harike Barrage at Harike. a few kilometers below the confluence of the Satluj and Beas rivers in the Indian state of Punjab and terminates in irrigation facilities in the Thar Desert in the north west of Rajasthan state. Previously known as the Rajasthan Canal, it was renamed the Indira Gandhi Canal in 1985 following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
• The canal enters Haryana from Punjab near Lohgarh village then runs through the western part of the Sirsa district before entering Rajasthan near Kharakhera village in the Tibbi tehsil of the Hanumangarh district.
• The canal traverses seven districts of Rajasthan: Barmer, Bikaner, hanumangarh, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, and Sriganganagar.

Gujarat has all the above given characteristics

• Food Crops (Wheat, Maize, Rice, Millets and Pulses etc.)

• Cash Crops (Sugarcane, Tobacco, Cotton, Jute and Oilseeds etc.)

• The Luni is a river of western Rajasthan state, India.

• It originates in the Pushkar valley of the Aravalli Range, near Ajmer and ends in the marshy lands of Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, after travelling a distance of 530 km.

• It is first known as Sagarmati, then after passing Govindgarh, it meets its tributary Saraswati, which originates from Pushkar Lake, and from then on it gets its name Luni.