- Question: What Indian city is the capital of two states?
- Answer: The city of Chandigarh, within the Chandigarh union territory, is the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana.
- Question: How many nations border India?
- Answer: India’s frontier abuts six countries. It is bounded to the northwest by Pakistan; to the north by Nepal, China, and Bhutan; and to the east by Myanmar (Burma) and Bangladesh.
- Question: What is the capital of Gujarat?
- Answer: Gandhinagar is the capital of Gujarat State. It is named in honor of Mohandas Gandhi.
- Question: What, approximately, is the area of India, in square kilometers?
- Answer: India covers an area of 3,166,414 square kilometers (1,222,559 square miles) in South Asia.
- Question: Who was the president of India in 2009?
- Answer: Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil was president of India in 2009.
- Question: What is India’s smallest state?
- Answer: Goa is India’s smallest state. It is just 1,429 square miles (3,702 square kilometers) in area.
- Question: Which of these bodies of water does not border India?
- Answer: The Red Sea lies west of the Arabian Peninsula. India borders the other three bodies of water.
- Question: Delhi is located along what river?
- Answer: Delhi lies alongside the Yamuna River, the largest tributary of the Ganges (Ganga) River.
- Question: Which of these is not a river of India?
- Answer: The Mekong has its source very near those of many Indian rivers, high in the Himalaya Mountains. But it flows eastward through Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
- Question: What body of water lies to the west of India?
- Answer: To the west of the peninsula of India, the Indian Ocean is called the Arabian Sea.

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