Miscellaneous World Geography MCQ Question and Answer | Geography MCQ Question

The Seventeenth parallel was the provisional military demarcation line between North and South Vietnam established by the Geneva Accords of 1954.

Azizia (Libya) is the hottest place in the world. For nearly a century the Mediterranean city of El Azizia in northern Libya has held the official title for having been the hottest place on Earth ever recorded. A panel of experts convened by the WMO raised five serious concerns over the historic claim that the mercury reached 58C in 1922 at what was then an Italian army base on the Libyan coast.

Formerly called the Republic of Upper Volta, the country was renamed "Burkina Faso" on 4 August 1984 by then-President Thomas Sankara.

Rubber is the coagulated Juice or latex or an equatorial tree called Hevea. Hevea brasiliensis has been introduced to many parts of the tropics for rubber production. Locations within which H. brasiliensis is naturalised include eastern Africa and some oceanic islands with warm climates.

Botswana was formerly known as Bachuanaland. Before its independence in 1966, Botswana was a British protectorate known as Bechuanaland. It was also one of the poorest and least-developed states in the world. The country is named after its dominant ethnic group, the Tswana ("Bechuana" in older variant orthography).

Suez Canal route handles more traffic than the Panama Canal route mainly because Suez Canal links developing nations of Asia with the developed nations of Europe and North America.

The thousands of lakes in Finland are the reason why the country's nickname is "the land of a thousand lakes", but at last count there were 187,888 of them - more lakes in relation to a country's size than any other.

The forces responsible for the movements of the earth's crust, eruption of volcanoes and earthquakes are Tectonic forces. Earth is an active planet. Its surface is composed of many individual plates that move and interact, constantly changing and reshaping Earth's outer layer. Volcanoes and earthquakes both result from the movement of tectonic plates.

The largest archipelago in the world is Indonesia. It has 18000 islands in total.

Blizzards are more frequent in Antarctic region. Antarctic weather is characterized by frequent blizzards. These are very strong winds, with falling or drifting snow being driven along the ground. Up to ten times a year, white-out conditions, where the visibility can be less than 1 m, may last several days.