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UPSC Prelims 2025 GS Paper 1, question 80

Topic: World and physical geography

Q80

Consider the following pairs :

Region : Country

I. Mallorca : Italy

II. Normandy : Spain

III. Sardinia : France

In how many of the above rows is the given information correctly matched?

  1. (a) Only one
  2. (b) Only two
  3. (c) All the three
  4. (d) NoneCorrect answer

Solution.

Answer: (d) None

  1. Pair I is incorrectly matched: Mallorca (Majorca) is the largest of the Balearic Islands, which belong to Spain, not Italy.
  2. Pair II is incorrectly matched: Normandy is a historic coastal region in northern France, not Spain.
  3. Pair III is incorrectly matched: Sardinia is an autonomous island region of Italy, not France (Corsica belongs to France).