UPSC CORE · NCERT GEOGRAPHY · STATE MAPS — MEGHALAYA
Meghalaya — Environment + Sites 🐆
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: State Maps — Meghalaya.
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Key locations covered (43)
- Nokrek National Park — Meghalaya
- Balphakram National Park — Meghalaya
- Nongkhyllem Wildlife Sanctuary — Meghalaya
- Narpuh Wildlife Sanctuary — Meghalaya
- Siju Bird Wildlife Sanctuary — Meghalaya
- Baghmara Pitcher Plant Wildlife Sanctuary — Meghalaya
- Meghalaya — State Animal: Clouded Leopard — Meghalaya
- Khasi Hills — Meghalaya
- Jaintia Hills — Meghalaya
- Garo Hills — Meghalaya
- Meghalaya Plateau — Meghalaya
- Meghalaya — Foundation, Area, Profile
- Shillong — Capital (Scotland of the East) — Meghalaya
- Cherrapunji (Sohra) — Meghalaya
- Mawsynram — Wettest Place on Earth — Meghalaya
- Mawlynnong — Cleanest Village in Asia — Meghalaya
- Dawki & Umngot River — Crystal Clear — Meghalaya
- Living Root Bridges — Khasi Heritage — Meghalaya
- Krem Liat Prah — India's Longest Cave — Meghalaya
- Umiam Lake (Barapani) — Meghalaya
- Tura — Garo Hills Capital — Meghalaya
- Smit — Khasi Heritage Village — Meghalaya
- Nartiang Monoliths — Meghalaya
- Jowai & Krang Suri Falls — Meghalaya
- Ward's Lake (Pollock's Pier) — Meghalaya
- Don Bosco Centre for Indigenous Cultures — Meghalaya
- Shillong Peak — Meghalaya
- Elephant Falls — Meghalaya
- Nohkalikai Falls — Meghalaya
- Mawsmai Cave — Meghalaya
- Seven Sisters Falls (Nohsngithiang) — Meghalaya
- Arwah Cave — Meghalaya
- Mawphlang Sacred Grove — Meghalaya
- Nongriat Double Decker Living Root Bridge — Meghalaya
- Krem Mawmluh — Meghalaya
- Balpakram — Land of Spirits — Meghalaya
- Siju Caves — Meghalaya
- Williamnagar — Meghalaya
- Wankhar Entomology Museum — Meghalaya
- Dainthlen Falls — Meghalaya
- Mawlynnong Sky View — Meghalaya
- Khasi-Garo-Jaintia Matriliny — Meghalaya
- Nokrek Biosphere Reserve — Meghalaya
Sample questions (12 of 212)
Nokrek NP is in which Meghalaya hills?
Garo Hills — Nokrek is the highest peak of Garo Hills
Nokrek is also a Biosphere Reserve. Year of UNESCO designation?
2009 — under Man and the Biosphere Programme
Nokrek is famous for protecting which citrus species?
Citrus indica — believed to be the ancestor of all cultivated oranges; 'Citrus Gene Sanctuary'
Nokrek protects which Critically Endangered primate species?
Western Hoolock Gibbon — India's only ape
Nokrek NP biosphere reserve year?
1988 (BR), 2009 (UNESCO MAB)
Nokrek highest point?
1,412 m (highest in Garo Hills)
Nokrek is famous for?
Citrus indica (wild ancestor of orange)
Nokrek NP area?
About 47 sq km
Where is Nokrek National Park?
West Garo Hills — encompasses Nokrek Peak (~1412 m), highest in Garo Hills.
Meghalaya: 'Abode of clouds'. Wettest place — and matrilineal tribes?
Mawsynram (rainfall #1). Khasi, Garo, Jaintia tribes — matrilineal society.
Balphakram NP is in which district?
South Garo Hills district
Balphakram means what in the local Garo language?
'Land of Perpetual Winds' — referring to the windswept Balphakram plateau
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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 State Maps — Meghalaya. 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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