Indian Geography Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 12)

The park began at 849.5 sq km in 1977 and has since expanded to 1,784 sq km, about a quarter of Sikkim’s area.

Mount Kangchenjunga stands at 8,586 metres, the world’s third-highest peak, and gives the park its name.

The park’s site calls the pygmy hog the world’s smallest and rarest wild pig. It says Manas and Barnadi were the only wild sites left in 1964. Captive-bred hogs have been released in Manas since 1996.

The park’s site says wild and rehabilitated rhinos were brought back from 2006, under the Indian Rhino Vision 2020. They came from Pobitora and Kaziranga. The programme began in 2005.

The World Heritage Committee removed Manas from the danger list at its 35th session in 2011. The UNESCO decision page gives the year. It does not give the exact day.

The park’s site calls Manas the first tiger reserve in north-east India, declared in 1973. It says Manas was among the first nine reserves under Project Tiger. These sources do not give a rank of fifth.

The park’s timeline says Manas Wildlife Sanctuary was constituted on 1 October 1928. It joined three reserve forests and covered 391 square kilometres. The other years mark later steps.

The Hitavada reports that she gave birth to 29 cubs in eight litters. The Quint says she was the first tigress collared in Pench, in 2008. It does not say she was the first in India.

The Kipling Society says Seeonee is the Seoni area. It also says the Waingunga winds through the Seoni region. It adds that Kipling did not know the area, so he never visited.

The Kipling Society notes that William Sleeman described a captured wolf-boy in India. Sleeman wrote about wolf-children, and the Mowgli tale is linked to such accounts. The other options have no support in the notes.

MP Tourism says Project Tiger has covered Pench since 1992. The Seoni district page gives 1983 as the National Park year. So 1983 is the park date, not the reserve date.

The NTCA says the Pench River gives the reserve its name. It flows north to south and splits the park. It also forms the boundary of Seoni and Chhindwara districts.

Safaris were suspended from 7 November 2025 after fatal tiger attacks raised human-wildlife conflict concerns. They resumed in phases from 19 February 2026, with Bandipur’s safari duration cut from 8 hours to 5.

This contiguous five-park landscape holds the world’s single largest wild Asian elephant population. Bandipur alone counted 1,116 elephants in 2023, the highest in Karnataka.

Bandipur joined the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve in 1986, alongside Mudumalai, Wayanad, and Nagarahole, forming India’s largest protected-area complex.

Bandipur recorded 150 tigers in the 2022 census, the second-highest count of any reserve in India, after Corbett’s 260.

The Maharaja of Mysore created the 90 sq km Venugopala Wildlife Park in 1931. In 1973, nearly 800 sq km was added under Project Tiger.

It was declared a national park in 1982, roughly five decades after its 1931 Western discovery.

Joan Margaret Legge, a Kew Gardens botanist, fell to her death on the valley’s rocky slopes in 1939, and is buried there.

The Valley of Flowers was added only in 2005, when the site was renamed “Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks.”

Frank Smythe, Eric Shipton, and R.L. Holdsworth discovered the valley in 1931 while descending from Mount Kamet.

The Valley of Flowers lies in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand. The Key Biodiversity Areas factsheet gives the altitude range of the protected site as 3,200 m to 6,590 m.

Kipling never visited India’s central forests. He set the story near Seoni, close to present-day Pench, not Kanha. Kanha’s own link is a later, tourism-driven comparison.

Kanha adopted Bhoorsingh the Barasingha as its mascot, the first Indian tiger reserve to do so.

The hard-ground barasingha fell to just 66 animals by 1970, all inside Kanha. It has since recovered to over 1,000.