Geography Of India (Part-V) (Railway)

• It is a mediumsized, temperate, Himalayan forest tree of medicinal importance.

• This evergreen tree is found at altitudes between 1800 and 3300 m above mean sea level (MSL).

• The top 5 populated states are Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar, West Bengal, and Madhya Pradesh.

• Chirpine is a large evergreen tree with elongated crown and attains a height of up to 50 metre.

• This park is situated about 245 km east of Aizawl.

• It is spread across approximately 200 square kilometres.

• The award is in the remembrance of Amrita Devi Bishnoi.

• The black soils are generally clayey, deep and impermeable.

• They swell and become sticky when wet and shrink when dried.

• The soils of Regur are primarily present in Central India and the Deccan Plateau.

• The land is sufficient for growing cotton.

• It extends about 675 miles across Madhya Pradesh to the Ganges River valley near Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

• it is taken as the standard time for the whole country.

• It is a channel which is 150 km wide from north to south and 10 km long from east to west and has a minimum depth of 7.3 m.

• The two sets of islands together form the Indian Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

• Almost 30% of the steel salvaged from ships dismantled in Alang reaches rerolling mills in Bhavnagar.

• The rest goes to mills in Mehsana (Gujarat). Punjab. Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.