India Geography Quiz - Questions and Answers

1. Which is the most populous state in India? 

a) Maharashtra 

b) Rajasthan 

c) Uttar Pradesh 

d) Bihar

2. What is India’s smallest state by area? 

a) Uttar Pradesh 

b) Puducherry 

c) Goa 

d) Kerala

3. What is India’s largest state? 

a) Kerala 

b) Rajasthan 

c) Uttar Pradesh 

d) Maharashtra

4. What Indian city is the capital of two states? 

a) Kolkata 

b) Chandigarh 

c) Chennai 

d) Mumbai

5. What is the capital of India? 

a) Mumbai 

b) Delhi

c) Kolkata

d) New Delhi

6. What is the Hindi film industry in India called? 

a) Nollywood 

b) Bollywood 

c) Tollywood 

d) Kollywood

7. Which Indian state has no coastline and no international frontiers? 

a) Chhattisgarh 

b) Madhya Pradesh 

c) Uttar Pradesh

d)  Jharkhand

8. Which Indian city is known as the Silicon Valley of India? 

a) Bengaluru 

b) Mumbai 

c) Hyderabad 

d) New Delhi

9. Which of these is the most common religion practiced in India? 

A) Hinduism 

B) Buddhism 

C) Christianity 

D) Confucianism

10 - Which of these Indian states is located on the Gangetic Plain? 

 A) Kerala

 B) Bihar

 C) Tamil Nadu

 D) Bihar

11 - India’s eastern coastline is on which body of water? 

A) Bay of Fundy 

B) Bay of Biscay 

C) Bay of Bengal 

D) Bay of Pigs 

12 - Which Indian state’s coastline is primarily found on the Kathiawar Peninsula? 

A) West Bengal 

B) Gujarat 

C) Kerala 

D) Tamil Nadu

13 - Which of these cities is found in part in the north of India? 

A) Chennai 

B) Dhaka 

C) New Delhi 

D) Colombo

14 - The city of Mumbai is the largest by population in which Indian state? 

A) Tamil Nadu 

B) Maharashtra 

C) Gujarat 

D) Himachal Pradesh

15 - Which of these states of India is located in the far eastern part of India? 

A) Nagaland 

B) Tamil Nadu 

C) Gujarat 

D) Kerala

16 - Which canal in southeastern India, also known as the Buckingham Canal, was constructed along the backwaters of the Coromandel Coast? 

a) Canoly Canal 

b) Kommamur Canal 

c) West Coast Canal 

d) Indira Gandhi Canal

17 - The largest inland salt lake in India is: 

a) Chilka Lake 

b) Pangong Lake 

c) Sambhar Lake 

d) Kolleru Lake

18 - This state in northeastern India is one of the smallest Indian states: 

a) Sikkim 

b) Meghalaya 

c) Manipur

d)  Jharkhand

19 - What is the name of the tallest mountain in India? 

a) Everest 

b) Kanchenjunga 

c) Damāvand 

d) Elbrus

Anwers:

01 - C

02 - C

03 - B

04 - B

05 - D

06 - B

07 - B

08 - A

09 - A

10 - B

11- C

12 - B

13 - C

14 - B

15 - A

16 - B

17 - C

18 - A

19 - B