Indian Geography Questions

India is the World's largest producer of Bananas producing nearly 30 million tons a year.

Railway Coaches and wagons are manufactured in Perambur, Chennai.

Hispar and Beturaof the Hunza valley are over 57km long. They are the largest glaciers. Biafo and Baltaro of the shigar valley are 60 km long

Madhya Pradesh has the highest number of 55770 fully covered tribal habitations with the safe drinking water in the country followed by Odisha and Jharkhand.

There are 8 different types of Soils present in India. They are primarily differentiated on the basis of composition and structure. They are ::

1.  Alluvial soils, 

2.  Black soils,

3.  Red soils,

4.  Laterite and Lateritic soils,

5.  Forest and Mountain soils,

6.  Arid and Desert soils,

7.  Saline and Alkaline soils and

8.  Peaty and Marshy soils.

It is composed of Archaean gneisses and schists

A karst topography is that which composes of limestone and its associated features and structures. Karst topography and caves develop in limestone rocks due to their solubility in dilute acidic groundwater. The solubility of limestone in water and weak acid solutions leads to karst landscapes.

Flowing rivers, can be found in areas away from karst topography.