City of Lakes : Udaipur
Lake District of India : Nainital
Land of thousand lakes : Finland
Largest Freshwater lake in India : Wular Lake [ Jammu and Kashmir ]
Largest Saline water lake in India : Chilika Lake [ Odisha ]
Highest Lake in India (Altitude) : Cholamu lake [ Sikkim ]
Longest Lake in India : Vembanad Lake [ Kerala ]
Largest Artificial Lake in India : Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand Dam)
Second largest Artificial Lake in India : Dhebar Lake [ also named Jaisamand Lake ] , Rajasthan
Largest freshwater lake in North-East India : Loktak Lake [ Manipur ]
Asia’s largest freshwater oxbow lake : Kanwar Lake
Only ox bow lake of South India : Vynthala Lake
Q Kolleru Lake which is one of the largest freshwater lakes in India is located in which state?
1. Maharashtra
2 Odisha
3 Andhra Pradesh
4 Jammu and Kashmir
Q On which lake is India’s first and only floating post office located ?
1 Dal lake , Jammu and Kashmir
2 Vembanad lake, Kerala
3 Ansupa lake , Odisha
4 Roop Kund lake , Uttarakhand
Q Chilika Lake is a brackish water lagoon, spreadover which districts of Odisha state?
1 Angul , Cuttak and Puri
2 Puri , Khurda and Ganjam
3 Puri , Bhubaneswar and Khurda
4 Puri ,Cuttack and Ganjam
Q ‘Lake of Flowers’ , ‘Jewel in the crown of Kashmir’ and ‘Srinagar Jewel ‘ are the name of which lake in Srinagar ?
1 Dal Lake
2 Wular Lake
3 Anchar Lake
4 Gadsar Lake
Q In which state is Sasthamcotta Lake located?
Ans 1. Tamil Nadu
2. Telangana
3. Kerala
4. Karnataka
Q Which among the following is Asia’s largest freshwater oxbow lake?
1 Kanwar
2 Bhojtal
3 Nakki
4 Wular
Q Kolleru Lake, located in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh , is located at the delta of two rivers . What are the rivers ?
1 Godavari and Krishna
2 Godavari and Mahanadi
3 Krishna and Cauvery
4 Tungabhadra and Chitravathi
Q Which of the following lakes is CORRECTLY paired with the state in which it is located?
Ans 1. Dal lake – Himachal Pradesh
2. Bhimtal lake – Uttarakhand
3. Chilika lake – Maharashtra
4. Loktak lake – Assam
Q Lake Baikal, the world’s largest freshwater lake (by volume) and the world’s deepest lake with a depth of 1620 m (5315 ft), is located in which country?
1 Uganda
2 Russia
3 Tanzania
4 Canada
Q Located at an altitude of 12,000 ft., Tsomgo Lake is one of the exquisite lakes in:
1 Arunachal Pradesh
2 Mizoram
3 Sikkim
4 Meghalaya
Q Wular lake is the 2nd largest fresh water of Asia, situated on the foothills of _.
1 Amarnath Mountain
2 Haramuk Mountain
3 Afarwat Mountain
4 Burzil Mountain
Q Which of the following combinations is NOT correct?
Ans 1. Wular lake – Kashmir
2. Vembanad lake – Maharashtra
3. Chilika lake – Odisha
4 Naini lake – Uttarakhand
| Lakes | Wular Lake [ Kashmir ] , Vembanad Lake [ Kerala ] , Chilika Lake [ Odisha ] , Naini Lake [ Uttarakhand ] |
Q Gurudongmar Lake is in which of the following states ?
1 Sikkim
2 Assam
3 Nagaland
4 Meghalaya
Q In which state is Sambhar, the largest inland salt water lake of India located ?
1 Maharashtra
2 Rajasthan
3 Odisha
4 Andhra Pradesh
Q In which state is Sasthamcotta Lake located?
1 Tamil Nadu
2 Telangana
3 Kerala
4 Karnataka
Q Vembanad lake, which is the largest lakes of India is in which state?
1 Tamil Nadu
2 Telangana
3 Kerala
4 Karnataka
Q Which is the largest lake in the world in terms of surface area?
1 Lake Tanganyika
2 Lake Superior
3 Caspian Sea
4 Lake Huron
Q In which state of India , Fulhar lake is situated ?
1 Assam
2 Punjab
3 Uttar Pradesh
4 Himachal Pradesh
Q In which state / UT is Anchar Lake is located ?
1 Odisha
2 Jammu and Kashmir
3 Ladakh
4 Puducherry
Q In which state of India is Ansupa Lake is situated ?
1 Odisha
2 UP
3 MP
4 Jammu and Kashmir
Q In which state of India is Surajkund Lake is situated ?
1 Haryana
2 Punjab
3 Rajasthan
4 Uttar Pradesh
Q The Sudarshana lake in __ was an artificial reservoir built during the rule of the
Mauryas.
1 Tamil Nadu
2 Gujarat
3 Karnataka
4 Rajasthan
Q The largest backwater lake in Odisha is :
1 Pulicat lake
2 Wular lake
3 Chilika lake
4 Dal lake
Q Which of the following European countries is called ‘the land of a thousand lakes’ ?
1 Norway
2 Finland
3 Sweden
4 Estonia
Q Which among the following is the deepest lake in the world ?
1 Baikal
2 Victoria
3 Caspian
4 Titicaca
Q Which of the following is known as Mystery Lake of India ?
1 Roopkund Lake
2 Fulhar Lake
3 Pokhari Lake
4 Renuka Lake
Q Which of the following lakes of India is located in Assam ?
1 Hamirsar Lake
2 Chapansala Lake
3 Palak Dil
4 Sala Lake
Q The Jal Mahal palace in Jaipur is situated in the middle of which lake ?
1 Man Sagar Lake
2 Kolleru Lake
3 Anchar Lake
4 Ansupa Lake
Q Which of the following lakes is shared between two Indian state ?
1 Chilika lake
2 Kolleru lake
3 Lonar lake
4 Pulicat lake
Q In which state Rudrasagar Lake is located ?
1 Uttar Pradesh
2 Tripura
3 Bihar
4 Jharkhand
Q In which state Ashtamudi Lake is located ?
1 Kerala
2 Tamil Nadu
3 Karnataka
4 Andhra Pradesh
Q In which state Chandra Taal lake is located ?
1 Uttarakhand
2 Himachal Pradesh
3 Uttar Pradesh
4 Madhya Pradesh
Q Hussain Sagar Lake is located in which state of India ?
1 Uttar Pradesh
2 Madhya Pradesh
3 Telangana
4 Andhra Pradesh
Q Umiam Lake is located in which state of India ?
1 Meghalaya
2 Assam
3 Manipur
4 Mizoram
Q Pulicat Lake is located in which state of India ?
1 Madhya Pradesh
2 Andhra Pradesh
3 Uttar Pradesh
4 Himachal Pradesh
Q Durgam Cheruvu Lake is located in which state of India ?
1 Himachal Pradesh
2 Uttar Pradesh
3 Telangana
5 Maharashtra
Q Which of the following lakes is formed in a depression which is said to have been formed due to a meteorite?
1 Sambhar lake
2 Loktak lake
3 Lonar lake
4 Hussain Sagar lake
Q Which of the following lakes is separated from Bay of Bengal by Sriharikota Island?
1 Chilika lake
2 Vembanad lake
3 Pulicat lake
4 Kaliveli lake
Q In which of the following states is Pachpadra lake located?
1. Tamil Nadu
2 Rajasthan
3 Madhya Pradesh
4 Odisha
Q Which of the following is a brackish water lake and shallow lagoon with estuarine character spread across the districts of Odisha?
1 Wular Lake
2 Chilika Lake
3 Uppar Lake
4 Pichola Lake
Q In which of the following states is Man Sagar lake located?
1 Tamil Nadu
2 Rajasthan
3 Madhya Pradesh
4 Odisha
Q In which of the following states is the Umiam Lake, popularly known as the Barapani Lake, located?
1 Sikkim
2 Nagaland
3 Meghalaya
4 Arunachal Pradesh
Q In which Indian city is one of the country’s ancient lakes, the ‘Lendiya Talab’ located?
1 Chennai
4 Bhopal
3 Lucknow
4 Varanasi
Q In which Indian state is the Tsomgo Lake located?
1 Mizoram
2 Nagaland
3 Sikkim
4 Arunachal Pradesh
Q In which Indian state is the ‘Pookode Lake’ located?
1. Punjab
2 Kerala
3 Gujarat
4 Tamil Nadu
Q In which Indian state is the ‘Bhushi Lake’ located?
1 Punjab
2 Gujarat
3 Rajasthan
4 Maharashtra
Q Bhojtal, formerly known as Upper Lake, is situated in which of the following states?
1 Rajasthan
2 Uttar Pradesh
3 Odisha
4 Madhya Pradesh
Q On which lake is the world’s only floating post office situated?
1. Chilika Lake
2 Wular Lake
3 Dal Lake
4 Loktak Lake
Q Which one of the following lakes and their locations is INCORRECTLY matched?
1 Lonar-Maharashtra
2 Chilika-Andhra Pradesh
3 Loktak-Manipur
4 Roopkund-Uttarakhand
Q Suryadhar lake is located in which of the following states?
1 Uttarakhand
2 Himachal Pardesh
3 Andhra Pradesh
4 Meghalaya
Q Which of the following is the second largest artificial lake in Asia?
1 Chilika Lake in Odisha
2 Chandubi Lake in Assam
3 Dhebar Lake in Rajasthan
4 Kolleru Lake in Andhra Pradesh
Q Which of the following lakes is located in Kerala ?
1 Kaliveli lake
2 Kolleru
3 Loktak
4 Vembanad