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World Geography Notes for IAS/PCS, Banking, IBPS, SSC & Railway etc

This section covers Free Notes & Study Material for World Geography; often asked in UPSC, IAS/PCS, Banking, IBPS, SSC, Railway, UPPSC, RPSC, BPSC, MPPSC, TNPSC, MPSC, KPSC and other competition exams.

Major Volcanic mountains around the world

A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma ch ...

World Geography · May 09, 2022 · 1 min read

Most prominent Mountain Ranges in the World

A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills ranged in a line and connected by high ground. The mid-ocean ridge is the longest m ...

World Geography · May 09, 2022 · 4 min read

Major Plateaus of the World with Location

A plateau is an elevated area with a more or less levelled land on its top. It has a large area on its top and a steep slope on its sides. The platea ...

World Geography · May 09, 2022 · 2 min read

Major Deserts of the World (Gobi, Gibson, Thar etc)

A desert is a landscape or region that receives very little precipitation - less than 25 cm per year (about ten inches). Approximately 1/3 of Earths l ...

World Geography · May 09, 2022 · 2 min read

Ocean currents of the World : Type and Location

Ocean currents are the continuous, predictable, directional movement of seawater driven by earths rotation, gravity, wind (Coriolis Effect), temperatu ...

World Geography · May 09, 2022 · 7 min read

Major Rivers of the World and Famous Cities on River Banks

Rivers are extremely useful for human, they provided early men with water to drink and fish to eat. When people learned to build and use boats, river ...

World Geography · May 10, 2022 · 11 min read

Major Grasslands of the World with Location

Grasslands and areas in which the vegetation is dominated by a nearly continuous cover of grasses. Grasslands are found where there is not enough re ...

World Geography · May 10, 2022 · 2 min read

Important Oceanic Trenches of the World

Oceanic trenches are topographic depressions of the seafloor, relatively narrow in width, but very long. These oceanographic features are the deepes ...

World Geography · May 10, 2022 · 3 min read

Major Straits of the world (With related Map)

A strait is a thin channel of a waterway that connects two large water bodies. Here is a list of Major Straits of the world: Malacca Strait Contiguo ...

World Geography · May 10, 2022 · 2 min read

Major Local Winds around the World

Local winds result from air moving between small low and high pressure systems. They are more localized in their extent and covers limited horizonta ...

World Geography · May 10, 2022 · 3 min read

Major Industrial Regions of the World

Industrial regions are those areas, where concentration of industries has occurred due to favorable geo-economic conditions. Here is a list of Majo ...

World Geography · Sep 21, 2021 · 24 min read

Local names of shifting cultivation around the world

Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which a person uses a piece of land, only to abandon or alter the initial use a short time later. ...

World Geography · Sep 21, 2021 · 2 min read