UPSC CORE · NCERT GEOGRAPHY · ASIA — PHYSICAL
Asian Rivers 📌
NCERT-aligned UPSC Core Geography topic from NCERT Class 11/12 + standard reference works (Bipan Chandra, R.S. Sharma, Romila Thapar). Every item is anchored to a real location on India's map — built for boards (CBSE, ICSE, state) and UPSC aspirants.
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Class UPSC Geography — NCERT Class 11/12 + standard reference works (Bipan Chandra, R.S. Sharma, Romila Thapar) — Chapter: Asia — Physical.
16LOCATIONS
67QUESTIONS
UPSC CORENCERT LEVEL
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Key locations covered (16)
- Yangtze (Chang Jiang) — China
- Yellow River (Huang He) — China
- Mekong — China-Myanmar-Laos-Thailand-Cambodia-Vietnam
- Salween (Thanlwin / Nu) — China-Myanmar-Thailand
- Irrawaddy (Ayeyarwady) — Myanmar
- Chao Phraya — Thailand
- Amur (Heilong Jiang) — Russia-China
- Lena — Russia (Siberia)
- Yenisei — Russia-Mongolia
- Ob-Irtysh — Russia-Kazakhstan-China
- Tigris — Turkey-Syria-Iraq
- Euphrates — Turkey-Syria-Iraq
- Amu Darya — Tajikistan-Afghan-Uzbek-Turkmen
- Syr Darya — Kyrgyz-Uzbek-Kazakh
- Helmand — Afghanistan-Iran
- Jordan River — Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Sample questions (12 of 67)
Length of the Yangtze?
~6,300 km — longest river in Asia and 3rd longest in the world
Source of Yangtze?
Tibetan Plateau (Tanggula Mountains)
Mouth of Yangtze?
East China Sea near Shanghai
Largest dam on Yangtze?
Three Gorges Dam — world's largest hydroelectric station
Major cities on Yangtze?
Chongqing, Wuhan, Nanjing, Shanghai
Why is Huang He called Yellow?
Carries huge silt load from loess plateau (~1.6 billion tons/year)
Length of Yellow River?
~5,464 km — 6th longest in the world
Yellow River's nickname?
'China's Sorrow' due to frequent floods
Source and mouth?
Source: Bayan Har mountains, Tibetan Plateau; Mouth: Bohai Sea
Yellow River is cradle of?
Chinese civilization
Length of Mekong?
~4,350 km
Countries Mekong flows through?
China (as Lancang), Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam — 6 countries
All 67 questions are available in the interactive map quiz.
About this topic
This topic is part of the NCERT UPSC Core Geography syllabus, specifically the textbook NCERT Class 11/12 + standard reference works (Bipan Chandra, R.S. Sharma, Romila Thapar), drawn from the chapter Asia — Physical. Content is cross-referenced against the latest NCERT textbook editions + standard reference works (Bipan Chandra, R.S. Sharma, Romila Thapar, Satish Chandra for history; G.C. Leong, Savindra Singh for geography; the UPSC Civil Services prelims + mains syllabus).
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