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Overview of India's Mountain Ranges

The document discusses various mountain ranges and peaks located across different states in India. It provides details about the highest mountains including K2 in the Karakoram range, Nanda Devi peak in Uttarakhand, and Guru Shikhar in the Aravalli range. It also mentions the highest peaks in states such as Jindagada in Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh and Doddabetta in the Nilgiri hills of Tamil Nadu. Key mountain ranges discussed include the Himalayas, Aravallis, Western Ghats, and Garo, Khasi and Jaintia hills located in Meghalaya.

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Overview of India's Mountain Ranges

The document discusses various mountain ranges and peaks located across different states in India. It provides details about the highest mountains including K2 in the Karakoram range, Nanda Devi peak in Uttarakhand, and Guru Shikhar in the Aravalli range. It also mentions the highest peaks in states such as Jindagada in Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh and Doddabetta in the Nilgiri hills of Tamil Nadu. Key mountain ranges discussed include the Himalayas, Aravallis, Western Ghats, and Garo, Khasi and Jaintia hills located in Meghalaya.

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Mountain Range & Peaks

SSC MTS/CGL Group D, NTPC, Railway, NDA & S PCS


🔰Highest Mountains in India → K2 Top MCQ
🔰Maikal Hills → Chhattisgarh ह िंदी + Eng
🔰Nilgiri Hill location → Tamilnadu
🔰Oldest Mountains in India → Aravalli
🔰Satpura mountain → Madhya Pradesh
🔰Garo, Khasi, Jaintia hills → Meghalaya
Q.1.
Which one of the following is the youngest mountain range of
India?
हिम्नहिखित में से कौि-सी भारत की सबसे िवीि पववत श्रिंििा ै?

a) Himadri Range
• The Himalayan mountain
b) Aravalli Range range began to form 40 to 50
million years ago.
c) Western Ghat • The Aravalli mountain range is
d) Vindhya Range as old as 370 million years.
• It is the oldest range of Fold
Mountains in India.
Option : A
Q.2.
Which of the following is the correct order of the Himalayan
range from south to north?
हिम्नहिखित में से ह मािय पववतमािा का दहिण से उत्तर की ओर स ी क्रम
कौि सा ै?

a) Great Himalaya-Lesser Himalaya-Shiwalik


b) Shiwalik→ Lesser Himalaya → Great Himalaya
c) Lesser Himalaya-Great Himalaya-Shiwalik
d) Shiwalik-Great Himalaya- Lesser Himalaya

Option : B
Q3..
Which is the highest peak of India?
भारत की सवोच्च चोटी कौि सी ै?

a) K2 (Godwin Austen) • It is the highest peak in the


Karakoram Range
b) Nanda Devi • K2 Godwin Austin 8611 m is the
c) Kanchenjunga highest peak of India which is
located in Pakistan Occupied
d) Mount Everest Kashmir (PoK)
• while the highest peak of
independent India is
Option : A Kangchenjunga which is located
in Sikkim.
Q.4.
In which state is the Kangchenjunga peak located?
किंचिजिंगा चोटी हकस राज्य में खथित ै?

a) Sikkim
• Kangchenjunga is the third
b) Uttarakhand highest mountain peak in
the world, it is on the border
c) Himachal Pradesh of Nepal in the north-west
d) Arunachal Pradesh part of Sikkim.
• Its height is 8586 meters.
• Lies in Himalayan Mountain
Option : A Range
Q.5.
Which is the highest mountain range of Trans Himalaya?
ट् ािंस ह मािय की सबसे ऊिंची पववत श्ेणी कौि सी ै?

a) Karakora • The highest mountain ranges


of the Trans Himalayas are the
b) Ladakh Karakoram, Ladakh, Zaskar,
c) Pir Panjal and Pirpanjal.

d) Jaskar The highest peak in the


Karakoram is K2 (Godwin
Austin).
Option : A • It is the highest peak in India.
Q.6
Where is the Ananthagiri Hills located?
अििंतहगरी ह ल्स क ािं खथित ै?

a) Uttarakhand
b) Sikkim
c) Telangana
d) Andhra Pradesh

Option : C
Q.7.
Which is the highest peak of Uttarakhand?
उत्तराििंड की सवोच्च चोटी कौि सी ै?

a) Trishul Peak
• Nanda Devi peak is located in
b) Nanda Devi Peak Chamoli district of
Uttarakhand.
c) Kamet Peak • it is the highest peak of
Uttarakhand,
d) Nandakot Peak
• its height is → 7816 meters.
• Nanda Devi peak is located in
Option : B the Himalayan range.
Q.8.
Which is the highest peak of the Aravalli range?
अराविी पववत श्ेणी की सबसे ऊिंची चोटी कौि सी ै?

a) Guru Shikhar • The Aravalli mountain range is


b) Doda betta the oldest mountain range.
• whose highest peak Guru
c) Dhupgarh Shikhar is located in Sirohi
district of Rajasthan,
d) Mahadev hill • its height is → 1722 meters.
• The Aravalli mountain range is
Option : A spread over three states of
Gujarat, Rajasthan and Haryana.
Gurushikhar
Q.9.
Which is the highest peak of Satpura ?
सतपुडा की सबसे ऊिंची चोटी कौि सी ै ?

a) Mahadev Peak
• Satpura is a mountain range
b) Rajpipla hills located in the central part of
India.
c) Dhupgarh • It is located in the state of
Madhya Pradesh,
d) Guru Shikhar
• the highest peak of this mountain
range is → Dhupgarh,
Option : C • its height is → 1350 meters.
Q.10.
'Mount Tenipu' is the highest peak of which state?
‘माउिं ट तेहिपु’ हकस राज्य की सबसे ऊँची चोटी ै ?

a) Sikkim
b) Nagaland • Mount Tenipu is located in the
Manipur state of India.
c) Mizoram • It is also called Mount Iso,
• its height is → 2994 meters.
d) Manipur

Option : d
Q.11.
Which is the highest peak of the Eastern Ghats?
पूवी घाट की सबसे ऊँची चोटी कौि-सी ै ?

a) Kanchenjunga
• The highest peak in the
b) Khasi Eastern Ghats range is
Jindagada.
c) Jindagada • height → 1690 meter
d) Anaimudi • It is located in the
Araku Valley of Andhra
Pradesh.
Option : C
Q.12.
n which state is the highest peak of the Nilgiri mountain
range located?
िीिहगरी पववत श्ेणी की सबसे ऊिंची चोटी हकस राज्य में खथित ै?

a) Tamil Nadu
• Some part of Nilgiri mountain
b) Andhra Pradesh range also comes in Tamil
Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala.
c) Odisha
• The highest peak here is
d) Madhya Pradesh Doddabetta.
• Height → 2637 meters.
Option :A • It is the second highest peak in
South India.
Q.13
Where are Garo Khasi Jaintia Hills located?
गारो िासी जयिंहतया प ाहडयािं क ािं खथित

a) Mizoram
• The Garo, Khasi and Jaintia
b) Manipur hills are located in
Meghalaya.
c) Meghalaya • These hills are named after
d) Assam the Garo, Khasi and Jaintia
tribes who live in these
places.
Option : C
Q.14
Where is the Satmala mountain range located?
सतमािा पववत श्ेणी क ािं खथित ै?

a) Kerala
b) Maharashtra • The Satmala hills are located
in Nashik, Maharashtra.
c) Andhra Pradesh • It is part of the Sahyadri
range.
d) Tamil Nadu • Ajanta hill is also located in
Maharashtra
Option : B
Q.15
In which state is Mikir hill located?
हमकीर प ाडी हकस राज्य में खथित ै?

a) Assam
b) Nagaland • The Mikir Hills form a
group of hills located to
c) Tripura the south of the
Kaziranga National Park
d) Mizoram in Assam.

Option : A
Q.16
In which state is the hill of Parasnath located?
पारसिाि की प ाडी हकस राज्य में खथित ै?

a) Assam
• The highest peak of the
b) Jharkhand Chota Nagpur plateau of
Jharkhand is the hill of
c) Madhya Pradesh Parasnath.
d) Rajasthan • height → 1365m
• The famous Jain temple is
also located here.
Option : B
Q.17
Where are Lushai Hills located?
िुशाई की प ाहडयािं क ािं खथित ै?

a) Nagaland
• The Lushai Hills, also known
b) Mizoram as the Mizo Hills, are a
mountain range.
c) Meghalaya
d) Arunanchal Pradesh • Located in the states of
Mizoram and Tripura, a sub-
range of the Patkai Hills.
Option : B
Q.18
Where are Mishmi Hills located?
हमश्मी प ाहडयाँ क ाँ खथित ै?

a) Arunachal Pradesh
• Mishmi hills is a hill located
b) Assam in the middle of the state of
Arunachal Pradesh in the
c) Meghalaya
northeastern part of India.
d) Mizoram
• Dafla, Patkoi hills are also
located in Arunachal
Option : A Pradesh..
Q.19
Where are the Annamalai Hills located?
अन्नामिाई की प ाहडयािं क ािं खथित ै?

a) Kerala
• These hills are located in Tamil
b) Andhra Pradesh Nadu and Kerala under the
Western Ghats of South India.
c) Madhya Pradesh
d) Karnataka • Anamudi is the highest peak of
Annamalai Hill.
• It is located in Kerala,
Option : A • its height is → 2695 meters.
Q.20
Cardamom hills are situated on the border of which states?
काडव मम प ाहडया हकि राज्योिं की सीमा पर खथित ै ?

a) Kerala and Tamil Nadu • The Cardamom Hills,


also known as Yellamala,
b) Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are located in Tamil
c) Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Nadu and Kerala.
• The name of these
d) Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh mountains is cardamom.
• Cardamom, coffee and
black pepper are also
Option : A grown on these hills.
Q.21
Where is Raisina hill located?
रायसीिा की प ाडी क ािं खथित ै?

a) Chandigarh
• The hill of Raisina is situated
b) Rajasthan in the heart of New Delhi, the
c) New Delhi capital of India.
• It is here that the official
d) Haryana residence and office of the
President, Rashtrapati Bhavan
is located.
Option : C
Q.22
Which mountain range is situated between Narmada and Tapi
rivers?
िमवदा और तापी िहदयोिं के बीच कौि सी पववत श्ेणी खथित ै?

a) Shivalik range
• The Satpura range is a
b) Ajanta range range of hills that runs
between the Narmada and
c) Vindhya range Tapti rivers.
• The Narmada originates
d) Satapura range
from the north-eastern part
of the Satpura ranges.
Option :D
Q.23
In which state Girnar hill is located?
हगरिार प ाडी हकस राज्य में खथित ै?

a) Rajasthan
• The temple built on the Girnar
b) Pujab mountain in Junagadh, Gujarat
c) Gujarat is known for its historical
heritage.
d) Haryana • Gir National Park is located in
Gujarat which is famous for
Asiatic Lions.
Option : C
Q.24
In which state is the Mahendragiri peak located?
म ेंद्रहगरी हशिर हकस राज्य में खथित ै?

a) Odisha
• Mahendragiri is a 1,501 m 2nd
b) Tamil Nadu
high mountain in the Eastern
c) Kerala Ghats in the Gajapati district of
the state of Odisha, India.
d) Rajsthan • This historical mountain is
mentioned in Ramayana.
Option : A
Mahendragiri Hills
(1501 M)
Q.25
In which state is the Maikal Hills located?
मैकि पववतमािा (Maikal Hills) हकस राज्य में खथित ै?

a) Chhattisgarh
b) Tamil Nadu
c) Kerala
d) Rajsthan

Option : A
Q.26
The highest peak of Vindhya range is ________.?
हविंध्य श्ेणी की सबसे ऊिंची चोटी ________ ै।

a) Amarkanta
• The highest peak of
b) Goodwill peak Vindhyachal is Goodwill
peak.
c) Mahendra Giri • It is also known as the
Kalumar peak or Sadbhawna
d) Gurushikhar
peak.
• Hieght:→ 752m
Option : B
Goodwill
peak
Q.27
Between which hills is Palghat Pass situated?
पािघाट दराव हकि प ाहडयोिं के मध्य खथित ै ?

a) Niligiri and Annamalai


b) Nilgiris and Satpura • The Palghat Pass is a
mountain pass in the
c) Nilgiris and Aravalli Western Ghats of India
that connects Coimbatore
d) None of these
in Tamil Nadu to Palakkad
in Kerala.
Option : A
Q.27
Where is Saddle Peak located?
सेंडि पीक क ाँ खथित ै?

a) Tamilnadu
• Saddle Mountain is the highest
b) Kerala mountain in the Andaman and
c) Andaman & Nicobar Nicobar Islands of India.
• It is surrounded by Saddle Peak
d) Lakshadweep National Park.
• Saddle Peak (732 Mtrs) is
Option : C the highest point in the
Andaman Islands.
Question for You

Which is the highest peak of Satpura ?


सतपुडा की सबसे ऊिंची चोटी कौि सी ै ?

a) Mahadev Peak
b) Rajpipla hills
c) Dhupgarh
d) Guru Shikhar
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