Indian Geography Questions

The largest desert in Asia is called the Gobi Desert. It covers an area of 500,000 square miles stretching from southern Mongolia to northern China.

The Dibang Wildlife Sanctuary is one of the eight wildlife sanctuaries of Arunachal Pradesh, India.

Tropical Deciduous Forests: They are also called the “Monsoon forests”. They grow in the areas with annual rainfall of 70-200 cm. Sandal wood, Shisam, Mahua, Sal, Teak and Bamboo are important species of trees. Moist deciduous and the dry deciduous forests are two major categories of these forests.

Black soil coupled with favorable climatic conditions (Temperature of 21-320C and 30 -100 cm of rainfall) are responsible for cotton cultivation in Gujarat.

Kothagudam is in Andhra Pradesh. The sponge iron will act as a substitute for steel scrap and be used as feed stock of electric arc steel making.

According to World Bank Indicator India - Land use:

• Agriculture Land - 1797090 sq. Km (about 60.4%). 

• Forest Area - 677598 sq. Km. (about 22.08%). 

• Agriculture Irrigated land - 35 %.

Madhya Pradesh state has the maximum number of wildlife sanctuaries in India. It has total of 36 wildlife sanctuaries. In India, there are total 96 national parks and 510 wildlife sanctuaries.