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 GK Questions and Answers on World Geography 

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1. Which is the tallest mountain in the world?

Answer: Mount Everest


2. Which is the latitude that runs through the centre of the Earth?

Answer: Equator


3. What are the names of the 5 oceans of the world?

Answer: Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and Arctic Ocean


4. Which country has the highest population?

Answer: China


5. Which is the longest river in the world?

Answer: The Nile, Africa


6. Which is the largest waterfall in the world?

Answer: Victoria Falls


7. Which is the largest desert in the world?

Answer: Sahara Desert


8. What are the branches of a river called?

Answer: Tributaries


9. Which is the largest island in the world?

Answer: Greenland


10. What heats the water in a hot spring?

Answer: Magma


11. Which is the coldest continent in the world?

Answer: Antarctica


12. Which is the world’s smallest country?

Answer: Vatican City


13. Where is the Colloseum located?

Answer: Rome, Italy


14. Where is the Tower Bridge located?

Answer: London, UK


15. Where is the Leaning Tower of Pisa located?

Answer: Pisa, Italy


16. How many countries are present in Africa?

Answer: 54 countries


17. Which planet is closest to Planet Earth?

Answer: Venus


18. What erupts from a volcano?

Answer: Lava, steam, ash, pieces of rock, and gaseous sulfur compounds


19. What is the name of the strait that separates the north and south islands of New Zealand?

Answer: Cook strait


20. Which is the direction at which wind blows?

Answer: Leeward direction


21. The ‘Roof’ of the world is referred to which place?

Answer: Pamir knot


22. What is the currency in Cambodia?

Answer: Riel


23. What is dew point?

Answer: The temperature at which dew begins to evaporate


24. How do you measure the speed of wind?

Answer: Anemometer


25. Name the river that is not crossed by any bridges.

Answer: Amazon


26. Which is the world’s largest port?

Answer: Port of Shanghai


27. Name the city that is located in two countries.

Answer: Istanbul


28. Where can you find the St. Basil’s Cathedral?

Answer: Moscow, Russia


29. Where is Loch Ness located?

Answer: Highland, Scotland


30. Where is Acropolis situated?

Answer: Athens, Greece


31. Which line separates Indian and China?


Answer: Mac-Mahon line


32. Name the current that increases temperatures in western Europe?


Answer: North Equatorial current


33. Which country produces maximum aluminium in the world?


Answer: Jamaica


34. In which direction does the geostationary satellite rotate?


Answer: West to east


35. Where can you find the Puna grassland ecoregion?


Answer: Andes mountains, South America


36. Where can you find the ‘Desert of Death’?


Answer: Dasht-e Margo, Afghanistan


37. What is the term used for lines used to join places with the same mean temperature?


Answer: Isotherms


38. What type of deserts are Gobi desert and Atacama desert?


Answer: Rainshadow deserts


39. Which region can be called the belt of Doldrums?


Answer: Equatorial region


40. What is the study of landforms called?


Answer: Geomorphology


41. What type of rock is granite?


Answer: Intrusive igneous rock


42. On which day of the year is the Sun closest to the Earth?

Answer: January 4th


43. Where can you find Bran Castle?

Answer: Transylvania, Romania


44. Where is the Easter Island situated?

Answer: Polynesian Triangle, Chile


45. Where is Hagia Sophia located?

Answer: Istanbul, Turkey

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