Geography topic analysis

Economic Geography & Resources UPSC PYQs

This cluster covers minerals, energy, industry, transport, ports, power plants, and infrastructure through their location and resource relationships. This live collection contains 13 classified questions across 8 exam years, from 2014 to 2025.

Year-by-year frequency

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Source topic labels in this cluster

Economic Geography5
Indian Geography5
Energy Infrastructure1
Energy Resources1
Infrastructure & Connectivity Projects1

Recurrent concept labels

Economic geography · 2Energy security · 2Mineral resources · 2Regional Connectivity · 2Resource distribution · 2Strategic minerals · 2Transport Geography · 2African mineral wealth · 1Atomic energy · 1Beach placers · 1Chemical composition · 1Critical minerals · 1

Representative solved questions

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UPSC 2025 · Geography

India is one of the founding members of the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC), a multimodal transportation corridor, which will connect

UPSC 2023 · Geography

About three-fourths of world's cobalt, a metal required for the manufacture of batteries for electric motor vehicles, is produced by

UPSC 2022 · Geography

With reference to India, consider the following statements: 1. Monazite is a source of rare earths. 2. Monazite contains thorium. 3. Monazite occurs naturally in the entire In...

UPSC 2020 · Geography

Consider the following minerals : 1. Bentonite 2. Chromite 3. Kyanite 4. Sillimanite In India, which of the above is/are officially designated as major minerals ?

UPSC 2018 · Geography

Consider the following statements : 1. In India, State Governments do not have the power to auction non-coal mines. 2. Andhra Pradesh and Jharkhand do not have gold mines. 3....

UPSC 2016 · Geography

In which of the following regions of India are shale gas resources found? 1. Cambay Basin 2. Cauvery Basin 3. Krishna-Godavari Basin Select the correct answer using the code g...

UPSC 2015 · Geography

In India, the steel production industry requires the import of

UPSC 2014 · Geography

With reference to two non-conventional energy sources called 'coalbed methane' and 'shale gas', consider the following statements : 1. Coalbed methane is the pure methane gas...

UPSC 2023 · Geography

Consider the following pairs : Port : Well known as 1. Kamarajar Port : First major port in India registered as a company 2. Mundra Port : Largest privately owned port in Indi...

UPSC 2023 · Geography

With reference to India's projects on connectivity, consider the following statements : 1. East-West Corridor under Golden Quadrilateral Project connects Dibrugarh and Surat....

How this page is built

Topic and concept labels are AI-assisted enrichment, not official UPSC classifications. We map them into a conservative editorial taxonomy using deterministic label rules, publish a category only when it has at least 10 questions across at least three exam years, and keep ambiguous records out of topic pages. Counts update with the question bank. See the full methodology and correction policy.