Geography topic analysis

World & Regional Geography UPSC PYQs

These questions test countries, borders, conflict regions, major basins, seas, latitudes, and the map relationships needed for world and regional geography. This live collection contains 17 classified questions across 9 exam years, from 2014 to 2025.

Year-by-year frequency

Counts show how many questions in this library were assigned to the category in each represented exam year. A zero is not implied for omitted years, and frequency alone is not a prediction of a future paper.

Source topic labels in this cluster

World Geography13
Latitudes and Longitudes1
Mineral Resources of the World1
Places in News1
World Political Geography1

Recurrent concept labels

Geopolitics · 4Physical geography · 3Political Geography · 3African geography · 2Cultural geography · 2European Geography · 2Political geography · 2Political Map of Europe · 2Regional Geography · 2access to sea · 1Border Studies · 1Bordering Water Bodies · 1

Representative solved questions

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UPSC 2025 · Geography

Consider the following statements : I. Anadyr in Siberia and Nome in Alaska are a few kilometers from each other, but when people are waking up and getting set for breakfast i...

UPSC 2024 · Geography

Consider the following countries: 1. Finland 2. Germany 3. Norway 4. Russia How many of the above countries have a border with the North Sea?

UPSC 2023 · Geography

Which one of the following is a part of the Congo Basin?

UPSC 2022 · Geography

Consider the following pairs: Region often mentioned in the news — Country 1. Anatolia — Turkey 2. Amhara — Ethiopia 3. Cabo Delgado — Spain 4. Catalonia — Italy How many pair...

UPSC 2020 · Geography

Consider the following pairs : River : Flows into 1. Mekong : Andaman Sea 2. Thames : Irish Sea 3. Volga : Caspian Sea 4. Zambezi : Indian Ocean Which of the pairs given above...

UPSC 2019 · Geography

Consider the following pairs : Sea : Bordering country 1. Adriatic Sea : Albania 2. Black Sea : Croatia 3. Caspian Sea : Kazakhstan 4. Mediterranean Sea : Morocco 5. Red Sea :...

UPSC 2017 · Geography

Mediterranean Sea is a border of which of the following countries ? 1. Jordan 2. Iraq 3. Lebanon 4. Syria Select the correct answer using the code given below :

UPSC 2015 · Geography

Which one of the following countries of South-West Asia does not open out to the Mediterranean Sea?

UPSC 2014 · Geography

What is the correct sequence of occurrence of the following cities in South-East Asia as one proceeds from south to north? 1. Bangkok 2. Hanoi 3. Jakarta 4. Singapore Select t...

UPSC 2025 · Geography

Consider the following pairs : Region : Country I. Mallorca : Italy II. Normandy : Spain III. Sardinia : France In how many of the above rows is the given information correctl...

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.