UPSC Previous Year Question | Prelims GS | 2018

Consider the following pairs: Towns sometimes mentioned in news - Country: 1. Aleppo - Syria; 2. Kirkuk - Yemen; 3. Mosul - Palestine; 4. Mazar-i-sharif - Afghanistan. Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

  1. 1 and 2
  2. 1 and 4
  3. 2 and 3
  4. 3 and 4

Answer

Correct Answer

1 and 4

Explanation

Aleppo is in Syria and Mazar-i-Sharif is in Afghanistan. Kirkuk and Mosul are both cities in Iraq, not Yemen or Palestine.

Topics: geography, places in news, west asia and afghanistan cities, world geography