Indian Geography

The Kopili River is associated with the Khandong/Kopili hydropower project in Assam and Meghalaya.

The Yarlung Zangbo is called the Brahmaputra in India after entering the eastern Himalaya through Tibet.

Dibru-Saikhowa National Park contains extensive wetland and swamp habitats and is an important biodiversity area of upper Assam.

Baralacha La connects Himachal Pradesh with the Leh-Ladakh region and lies on the Manali–Leh route.

Angkor Wat is in Cambodia; it was built mainly in the 12th century under King Suryavarman II.

Mumbai is traditionally called the Cottonopolis of India because of its historic cotton-textile industry and port trade.

The Central Institute for Cotton Research is headquartered at Nagpur, Maharashtra.

Kolleru Lake is a Ramsar Site in Andhra Pradesh, lying between the Krishna and Godavari delta systems.

The 38th Parallel is associated with the division of North Korea and South Korea; the Korean DMZ follows a nearby line around the 38th parallel.

The Aghil Pass is a high Himalayan pass traditionally described as connecting Ladakh with China’s Xinjiang region.

The Brahmaputra is often called an “oil river” in Assamese cultural/geographical descriptions because of its strategic petroleum-region association.

The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway, while the other Nobel Prizes are presented in Stockholm; the Peace Prize has been awarded in Oslo since 1901.

The Forest Research Institute is located in Dehradun; the present main building was inaugurated in 1929.

India’s first Open Rock Museum is at Hyderabad, displaying rocks collected from different parts of India.

The Cardamom Hills are in Kerala and form part of the southern Western Ghats.