UPSC Previous Year Question | Prelims GS | 2023

Consider the following pairs: Regions often mentioned in news : Reason for being in news. 1. North Kivu and Ituri : War between Armenia and Azerbaijan. 2. Nagorno-Karabakh : Insurgency in Mozambique. 3. Kherson and Zaporizhzhia : Dispute between Israel and Lebanon. How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?

  1. Only one
  2. Only two
  3. All three
  4. None

Answer

Correct Answer

None

Explanation

All pairs are mismatched: North Kivu and Ituri (DRC) are associated with insurgency/conflict in the DRC (not Armenia-Azerbaijan war); Nagorno-Karabakh is associated with the Armenia-Azerbaijan war (not Mozambique insurgency); Kherson and Zaporizhzhia are Ukrainian regions disputed in the Russia-Ukraine war (not an Israel-Lebanon dispute).

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