Previous year MCQs

Indian Geography UPPSC 2000 GS-I
Question

Which one of the following states has the largest KM of National Highways in India?

Answer & Solution

Answer: (Detailed Solution Below)

Option D: Uttar Pradesh

Detailed Solution:

The correct answer is “Uttar Pradesh”.
Largest KM of National Highways in India: Maharashtra > Uttar Pradesh > Rajasthan > Madhya Pradesh > Karnataka > Andhra Pradesh

Similar Questions:

In India, the growth rate of population is the Highest in?
  1. A) class I towns
  2. B) class II towns
  3. C) class IV towns
  4. D) class VI towns
Along which one of the following meridians did India experience the first light of the sunrise of the new millennium?
  1. A) 2° 30' West
  2. B) 82° 30' East
  3. C) 92° 30' West
  4. D) 92° 30' East
Keibul Lamjao National Park is located in which lake?
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List-I (Place) - List-II (Industry)

A) Churk - 1) Lock
B) Firozabad - 2) Sport's goods
C) Aligarh - 3) Cement
D) Meerut - 4) Bangles
  1. A) A-1 B-3 C-2 D-4
  2. B) A-2 B-1 C-3 D-4
  3. C) A-3 B-4 C-1 D-2
  4. D) A-3 B-2 C-1 D-4
Which of the following sequence of cities is correct regarding population?
  1. A) Bombay- Delhi - Bangalore - Hyderabad
  2. B) Kolkata - Bombay- Delhi - Madras
  3. C) Delhi- Kolkata- Madras - Bombay
  4. D) Delhi - Madras- Bombay - Kolkata
Assertion (A): The size of population and its composition are responsible for the social change.

Reason (R): The fertility of occupational groups in which the wives engage more generally in gainful occupations, is lower than that of other groups in the same economic category.

Codes:
  1. A) Both A and R are is the correct explanation of A
  2. B) Booth A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A
  3. C) A is true but R is false
  4. D) A is false but R is true
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  2. B) Ibn Batutah
  3. C) Sultan Firoz Shah
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  2. B) Luni river
  3. C) Ghaggar river
  4. D) None of the above
Which one of the following is an important tribe of the Dhauladhar Range?
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  2. B) Gaddi
  3. C) Lepcha
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Which one of the following is known as "Satellite Town"?
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