UPSC Previous Year Question | Prelims GS | 2018

Consider the following pairs: Regions sometimes mentioned in news - Country: 1. Catalonia - Spain; 2. Crimea - Hungary; 3. Mindanao - Philippines; 4. Oromia - Nigeria. Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

  1. 1, 2 and 3
  2. 3 and 4 only
  3. 1 and 3 only
  4. 2 and 4 only

Answer

Correct Answer

1 and 3 only

Explanation

Catalonia is in Spain and Mindanao is in the Philippines. Crimea belongs to Ukraine (annexed by Russia in 2014), not Hungary, and Oromia is a region of Ethiopia, not Nigeria.

Topics: geography, places in news, regions and their countries, world geography