Post on 25-Dec-2020
North America Political
1. Cayman island - UK 2. Third largest continent 3. Tropic of cancer pass through Mexico and USA 4. North magnetic pole Canada (Queen Elizabeth Islands) 5. Nicaragua is surrounded by Houndura and Costa Rica (Lake Nicaragua on boundary)6. Nicaragua -> Costa Rica -> Panama -> South America 7. San Diego near to Mexico 8. Mexico is surrounded by Bleize, USA and Guatemal 9. Industrial area on west coast
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North America Physical
1. Bering strait is between Russia and USA (Alaska)2. West to East - Lake Superior, Lake Michigan (Completely in USA), Lake Huron, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario
[Chicago on Michigan Lake] 3. Rockies mountain -> Western part (Mount Elbert highest mountain)4. Alaska Range (Mount McKinley highest in North America)5. Mount Shasta is in Rockies6. isthmus of panama is narrow strip of land between Caribbean sea and Pacific sea (Gulf of Panama)7. Strait of Florida between USA and Cuba 8. Hudson Bay - Canada 9. Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River (Rockies) [largest in the world]
10. Death valley Canyon eastern California (excellent example of a graben, or a down dropped block of land between two mountain ranges) [One of the highest temperature and highest diurnal range, Mojave desert]
11. Bay of Fundy - Highest tidal range in the world located on east coast of Canada below Gulf of Lawrence (Near Noco Scotia in Atlantic)
12. San Andrea Fault - Runs along California province (North America plate and Pacific Plate) 13. Middle America Trench - from central Mexico to Costa Rica (Guatemala Trench) 14. Great Plains: stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian Arctic 15. The varied eastern region: including the Appalachian Mountains, the coastal plain of the Atlantic
Seaboard, and the Florida peninsula. 16. Naigara falls - Located on the Niagara River, which drains Lake Erie into Lake Ontario17. Colorado rivers drains in Gulf of California [Mexico + USA]18. Mississippi river drains in Gulf of Mexico 19. The largest salt mine in the world is the Goderich Mine which runs partially under Lake Huron. 20. Lake Huron is largest by volume while lake superior by surface 21. Cape Breton Island is Region known for coal field (near Nova Scotia)22. St Lawrence river is busiest inland waterway in N America (origin at lake Ontario and drain at Lawrence
Bay)23. Columbia is largest river of USA which drain in pacific ocean 24.
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South America Political
1. Fourth largest continent 2. Equator pass through Eucador, Colombia and Brazil 3. Tropic of Capricorn pass by 4. Venezuela is surrounded by Guyana, Columbia and Brazil 5. Brazil is surrounded by Guyana, Columbia, Surinam, French Guiana, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia and Peru,
Argentina [All Except Eucador, Chile]6. Peru is surrounded by Brazil, Eucador, Columbia, Chile, Bolivia7. Argentina is surrounded by Chile, Brazila, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay8. Falkland island is of UK 9. Columbia connects S America to N America via Panama
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South America Physical
1. Magellan strait - Separate the southern end of S America Tierra Del Fuego 2. Drake passage - Strait between S America and Antartica3. Lake Maracaibo - Largest lake of S America, One of the major oil producing region of Venezuela 4. Lake Titicaca - Border of Peru and Bolivia, Highest navigable lake in the world (Most part in Peru)5. Atacama Desert - Chile, Rich in nitrate and Supher, Worlds driest desert 6. Amazon River - Origin at Andes Mountain (Peru), drain at Atlantic Ocean (Brazil) [Forms dense equatorial
forest locally called as Selvas]7. Parana river - Forms boundary between Brazil and Paraguay
8. Andes mountain - Second largest mountain system, Aconcagua highest peak 9. Mt Ojas Del Salado - Highest active volcano in the world, Argentina
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Antarctica
1. Fifth largest Continent 2. Antarctica continent is highest of all continent in elevation 3. Dakshin Gangotri at mount Indira 4. Maitri, Bharati and Dakshin Gangotri two station of India [Himadri in Norway, Arctic ocean]
Africa political
1. Known as dark continent 2. Joined to Asia by Isthumus of Suez [West to wast - Gulf of Suez, Red sea and Strait of babel Mandeb and
Gulf of Aden] 3. Only continent which crosses tropic of cancer, Capricon and equitor4. Mediterranean sea - Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt 5. Red sea - Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Djibouti (Stait of Babel Mandab) [Saudi and Yemen on Asian side]6. Indian Ocean - Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa [Seychelles, Mauritius and
Madagascar island]7. Mozambique channel separates Mozambique and Madagascar 8. Maputo bay south east of Mozambique 9. Strait of Babel Mandab separates Yemen from Djibouti & connects Red sea with Gulf of Aden
10. Malawi - Squeezed between Tanzania, Mozambique and Zambia11. Rawanda - Uganda, Brundi, Tanzania, DR of Congo 12. Uganda - Kenya, Tanzania (lake Victoria on bondary), DR of Congo (lake albert on boundary), South
Sudan, Rawanda 13. South Africa - Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland 14. Seychell and Diago Gracia and Jakarta on same latitude (Below equator)15. North to south - Maldives -> Seychelles -> Diego Gracia -> Mauritius -> Reunion 16. East to West - Madives -> Mauritius -> Reunion -> Seychelles -> Madagaskar -> Mozambique
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Africa Physical
1. Rift valley of Africa - Stretches northward through Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia 2. The Sahara desert touches eleven countries. These are Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania,
Morocco, Niger, Sudan, Tunisia and Western Sahara. 3. The equator passes through 13 countries - Ecuador,Colombia, Brazil, Sao Tome
& Principe, Gabon,Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Maldives,Indonesia and Kiribati
4. Lake Nyasa / lake Malawi - Rift valley lake, Along Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania 5. Lake Tanganyika - Rift valley, Worlds second deepest lake 6. Lake Victoria - Source of white Nile, Does not lie in rift valley, Worlds third largest lake, Equator pass,
Source of coral reefs 7. Lake Tana - Source of blue Nile 8. Lake Nasser - On the Nile river9. Nile drain into Mediterranean sea
10. Zaire or Congo river cuts equator twice 11. Atlas - Fold mountain, In the east 12. Mount Kilimanjaro/Mount Kibo - Stands alone not part of mountain range, Extinct volcano, Mount peak
is covered with snow throughout the year 13. Sahara Desert - Erg Sandy desert; Hamada rocky desert; 14. Erg, also called Sand Sea, in a desert region, area of large accumulation of sand 15. Namib desert - Along Namibia 16. Victoria waterfalls - river Zambezi which is situated in Africa. 17. Kalhari Desert - East of Namib desert
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Oceania Political
1. Great Barrier reef in north east (upto tropic of Capricorn)2. It is smallest continent
3. Australia, Fiji, New Zealand 4. Tropic of Capricorn pass through Australia
Oceania Physical
1. The great dividing range - Block fault Mountain, Tasmania and Australia [Eastern side]2. Great Victoria desert - On western coast 3. Kalgoorlie - Western region, Important gold mine 4. Perth - Western region, Manufacturing center of iron steel, vehicle, machinery and textile 5. Pacific island - Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia
Europe Political
1. Second smallest continent 2. Ural mountain is boundary between Asia and Europe 3. Countries facing black sea - Russia, Georgia, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine 4. Italy is surrounded by France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia5. Finland country of lakes 6. Rommania - Ukrain, Moldova, Hungary, Serbia and Bulgaria 7. Moldova is between Ukrain and Romania 8. France - Surrounded by Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Spain 9. Macedonia - Serbia, Bulgeria, Albania, Kosovo, Greece
10. Greece - Bulgeria, Turkey, Macedonia, Albania 11. Gibraltar with UK 12. Strait of Gibraltar between Africa and Europe [Connects Mediterranean sea with Atlantic sea]13. English Channel separates France and UK 14. Strait of Dover
15. The Strait of Otranto lies between Italy and Albania. 16. Gulf of Bothnia separates Sweden and Finland (Baltic sea)17. Bosnia, Hercegovina, Alabania, Croatia have Adriatic sea as a boundary. Macedonia is far away from
Adriatic sea. 18. The PrimeMeridian passes through the UK, France and Spain in Europe and Algeria, Mali, Burkina, Faso,
Tongo and Ghana in Africa. The only landmass crossed by the Meridian in the Southern Hemisphere is Antarctica.
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Europe Physical
1. Strait of Kerch is between Azov sea and black sea [Don river drains]2. Rhine river - drains in Mediterranean sea, Flows through rift valley, Serves as boundary between Germany
and france [important navigation] [Ruhr region of Germany]3. North Anatolian Fault - Below Black sea in N part of Turkey.4. Volga river flows in Caspian sea (Europe's longest river)5. Kjolen Mountain - On the border of Norway and Sweden 6. Alps - Act as a giant watershed in Switzerland 7. Mount Etna - Italy, Volcanic parasitic mountain 8. Caucasus - North of Georgia, Mount Elbrus is highest mountain of Europe
9. Black forest - Block mountain of Germany 10. Mount Stromboli - Composite volcanic cone, Light house of Mediterranean
Asia Political
1. Separated from Europe by Caspian sea and Ural mountains 2. Caspian Sea - Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Azaerbajan3. The Bosporus Strait (or Bosphorus) connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara 4. Bosporus Strait and strait of Dardanelles separates Turkey 5. Aral sea is located between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan 6. Dead Sea - Israel, West bank and Jordan 7. Korean peninsula - is between Yellow sea and East Sea [Be careful not east china sea] (Japan sea)8. Shanghai on the coast of East china sea9. Chinese Taipai is on Tropic of cancer [Connect east china sea and south china sea]
10. Isthmus of Kra is between Gulf Thailand to Bay of Bangal (Possible Kra canal/ Thai canal)11. Timor sea - South west of Australia (Between Australia and Indonesia)12. Gulf of Oman - Between Iran and Oman 13. Gulf of Aden - Between Somalia and Yemen 14. Persian Gulf - Separates Arabian peninsula from Iranian plateau [Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi, Qatar, UAE]15. Korea strait - Separates South Korea and Japan 16. Taiwan strait - Taiwan and China 17. Sunda Strait - Java and Sumatra (In southern sphere; Parallel to Seychelles)18. Malacca Strait - Between Malaya and Sumatra
19. Strait of Lombok - strait connecting the Java Sea to the Indian Ocean 20. Shanghai > Beijing > Seoul > Tokyo [South to north]21. Strait of Hormuz - Between Iran and UAE 22. Ural mountain is border between Russia and Kazakhstan 23. North Korea - China, South Korea and Russia 24. South to North - Jakarta > Singapore > Kuala Lampur > Bandar Seri > Phom penh > Bangkok > Manila 25. Equator pass through only Sumatra 26. West to East - Bangkok > Kuala Lampur > Singapore > Hanoi > Jakarta > Bandar Seri > Manila 27. Malaysia is touched by - Indonesia, Brunei and Thailand 28. Thailand is touched by - Myanmar, Laos, Comobodia and Malaysia 29. Vietnam is touched by - China, Laos and Combodia 30. Myanmaris touched by - India, bangladesh, China, Thailand, Laos 31. Russia is touched by - Finland, Norway, Ukrain, Belarus, Latvia, Rstonia, Kazakhstn, China, N Korea,
Georgia and Azarbaizan32. China is touched by - Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, India, Nepal, Bhutan, N Korea, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan,
Mangolia and Kazakistan, Tajikistan 33. Uzbekistan - Tukmenistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kazakistan, Kyrgyzstan 34. SCO member Kyrgyzstan, tajakistan and Uzbekistan are land lock 35. Iran - Pakistan, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan, Armenia, Turkey 36. Armenia divides Azarbaizan 37. Iraq - Kuwait, Iran, Saudi, Jordan, Syria, Turkey 38. Kuwait - Iraq and Saudi39. Syria - Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Lebnon, Israel 40. The West Bank is a landlocked rugged territory in the Mediterranean Region, west of Jordan, on three
sides surrounded by Israel. [West bank + Gaza = Palestine] 41. Golan heights is dispute between Syria and Israel 42. Israel - Lebnon, Syria, West bank , Jordan and Egypt 43. Yemen - Saudi and Oman
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Asia Physical
1. Lake Baikal - Siberia, Deepest continental body, Source of Lena river 2. Dead Sea - Rift valley lake on west bank of Jordan, Jordan river flows into sea3. Caspian Sea - Largest lake in the world 4. Mount Mayon - Only active volcano of Philippine5. Karakoram > Kailash > Himalaya [North to South] 6. Pamir Knot - Tian Shan, Karakoram, Kunlun, Hindu Kush and Suleman 7. Sulaiman range - On border of Pakistan and Afghanistan 8. Tibetan Plateau - Between Kulan shaha range and Himalaya (Hence intermont plateau), Largest plateau
in the world, Tectonic origin, 9. Takla Makan Desert - Between Kulan shaha and Tien shaha
10. Pamir plateau - Highest plateau of the world also known as roof of the world 11. Arbian plateau - Tilted block 12. Gobi desert - South east of Mangolian plateau, extend to China 13. Yalu river - Forms well defined border between North Korea and eastern Russia 14. Hwang Ho - River course is diverted to gulf of Pohai instead of yellow sea 15. Yangtse Kiang - Drain into wast China sea; Shanghai and Yuhan are on bank of Yangtse; Longest river of
Asia 16. Mekong - Border of Thailand and Laos; Flows through China, Combodia, Thailand , Laos and Vietnam;
Drains into south china sea; 17. Delta rigion of Irraweddy and Sittang are known as rice bowl of Myanmar
18. Irraweddy river drains into bay of Bangal 19. Brahmputra - Tsang-Po in Tibet; Origin at south east of Mansarovar 20. Indus has origin in Mansarovar lake
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