Indian Geography Questions

The Alaknanda is a Himalayan river in the Indian state of Uttarakhand and one of the two headstreams of the Ganga. Badrinath is situated on the bank of river Alaknanda.

A line on a map connecting points that have the same average percentage of cloudiness is called Isoneph.

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.

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.

Kalsubai and Salher are two omportant peakes in the northern section of Sahyadris.Pusphagiri is an elevation in the Southern  Sahyadris.

It is the largest of all tributaries of Indus and rises in the Himalayan region in Himachal Pradesh