👉Andhra Pradesh
✔️Kolleru Lake
✔️Pulicat Lake
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👉Assam
✔️Chandubi Lake
✔️Chapanala Lake
✔️Haflong Lake
✔️Son Beel Lake
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👉Bihar
✔️Kanwar Lake
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👉Gujarat
✔️Hamirsar Lake
✔️Kankaria Lake
✔️Lakhota Lake
✔️Sursagar Lake
✔️Thol Lake
✔️Vastrapur Lake
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👉Himachal Pradesh
✔️Brighu Lake
✔️Dashair and Dhankar Lake
✔️Kareri and Kumarwah lake
✔️Khajjiar Lake
✔️Macchial Lake
✔️Manimahesh Lake
✔️Nako Lake
✔️Pandoh Lake
✔️Prashar Lake
✔️Renuka Lake
✔️Rewalsar Lake
✔️Seruvalsar and
✔️ Manimahesh Lake
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👉Haryana
✔️Badkhal Lake
✔️Beauty lake
✔️Blue Bird Lake
✔️Brahma Sarovar
✔️Current lake
✔️Karna Lake
✔️Sannihit Sarovar
✔️Surajkund
✔️Tilyar Lake
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👉Jammu and Kashmir
✔️Dal Lake
✔️Manasbal Lake
✔️Mansar Lake
✔️Pangong Tso
✔️Sheshnag Lake
✔️Tso Moriri
✔️Wular Lake
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👉Karnataka
✔️Agara Lake
✔️Bellandur Lake
✔️Byrasandra Lake
✔️Hebbal Lake
✔️Kempambudhi Lake
✔️Lalbagh Lake
✔️Madiwala Lake
✔️Puttenahalli Lake
✔️Sankey Lake
✔️Ulsoor Lake
✔️Dalavai Lake
✔️Devanoor Lake
✔️Karanji lake
✔️Kukkarahalli lake
✔️Lingambudhi Lake
✔️Honnamana Kere
✔️Pampa Sarovar
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👉Kerala
✔️Ashtamudi Lake
✔️Kuttanad Lake
✔️Maanaanchira,
✔️Kozhikode
✔️Manakody Kayal
✔️Padinjarechira, Thrissur city
✔️Paravur Kayal
✔️Punnamada Lake
✔️Shasthamkotta lake
✔️Vadakkechira, Thrissur city
✔️Vanchikulam, Thrissur
✔️Vellayani Lake
✔️Vembanad Lake
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👉Madhya Pradesh
✔️Bhoj Wetland
✔️Lower Lake
✔️Moti lake
✔️Sarang pani lake
✔️Shahpura lake
✔️Tawa Reservoir
✔️Upper Lake
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👉Maharashtra
✔️Gorewada Lake
✔️Khindsi Lake
✔️Lonar Lake
✔️Mehrun Lake
✔️Pashan Lake
✔️Powai Lake
✔️Rankala Lake
✔️Salim Ali Lake
✔️Shivasagar lake
✔️Talao Pali
✔️Upvan Lake
✔️Venna Lake
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👉Meghalaya
✔️Umiam Lake
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👉Manipur
✔️Loktak Lake
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👉Mizoram
✔️Palak dïl
✔️Tam Dil
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👉Odisha
✔️Anshupa Lake
✔️Chilika Lake
✔️Kanjia lake
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👉Punjab
✔️Harike Lake
✔️Kanjli Lake
✔️Ropar Lake
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👉Rajasthan
✔️Ana Sagar Lake
✔️Balsamand lake
✔️Dhebar Lake
✔️Jaisamand LakeJal Mahal,
✔️Man Sagar lake
✔️Kaylana Lake
✔️Nakki Lake
✔️Pushkar Lake
✔️Rajsamand Lake
✔️Ramgarh Lake
✔️Talwara Lake
✔️Sambhar Salt Lake
✔️Fateh Sagar Lake
✔️Rangsagar lake
✔️Uday sagar Lake
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👉Sikkim
✔️Gurudongmar Lake
✔️Khecheopalri Lake
✔️Lake Tsongmo
✔️Lake Cholamu
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👉Telangana
✔️Alwal Cheruvu Lake
✔️Durgam Cheruvu (Secret Lake)
✔️Himayat Sagar
✔️Hussain Sagar
✔️Osman Sagar
✔️Safilguda Lake
✔️Saroornagar Lake
✔️Shamirpet Lake
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👉Tamil Nadu
✔️Berijam Lake
✔️Chembarambakkam Lake
✔️Kaliveli Lake
✔️Kaveripakkam Lake
✔️Kodaikanal Lake
✔️Ooty Lake
✔️Perumal Eri
✔️Red Hills Lake
✔️Sholavaram Lake
✔️Singanallur Lake
✔️Veeranam Lake
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👉Uttar Pradesh
✔️Amakhera Lake
✔️Barua Sagar Tal
✔️Belasagar Lake
✔️Bhadi Tal
✔️Chando Tal Lake
✔️Keetham Lake
✔️Nachan Tal
✔️Ramgarh Tal Lake
✔️Sheikha Jheel
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👉Uttarakhand
✔️Skeleton Lake (Roopkund Lake)
✔️Bhimtal Lake
✔️Dodital
✔️Nainital Lake
✔️Naukuchiatal
✔️Sat Tal
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👉West Bengal
✔️Debar Lake
✔️East Calcutta Wetlands
✔️Jore Pokhri
✔️Mirik Lake
✔️Rabindra Sarobar
✔️Rasikbil
✔️Santragachhi Lake
✔️Senchal Lake
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Important points:::::::--------;√√√√√√^^
✔️Largest fresh water lakes in Asia & India – Wular Lake, kashmir
✔️Largest artificial lake in Asia – Upper lake, Madhya Pradesh
✔️Largest saline water lake in india – chika lake, orissa
✔️Longest lake in India – Vembanad,kerala
✔️Highest Lake in india – Cholamu Lake,Sikkim  

SYLLABUS FOR GEOGRAPHY

PAPER - I
	PRINCIPLES OF GEOGRAPHY
	Physical Geography 1. Geomorphology Factors controlling landform development; endogenetic and exogenetic forces; Origin and evolution of the earth's crust; Fundamentals of geomagnetism; Physical conditions of the earth's interior; Geosynclines; Continental drift; Isostasy; Plate tectonics; Recent views on mountain building; Vulcanicity; Earthquakes and Tsunamis; Concepts of geomorphic cycles and Landscape development ; Denudation chronology; Channel morphology; Erosion surfaces; Slope development ; Applied Geomorphology: Geohydrology, economic geology and environment. 2. Climatology Temperature and pressure belts of the world; Heat budget of the earth; Atmospheric circulation; atmospheric stability and instability. Planetary and local winds; Monsoons and jet streams; Air masses and fronto genesis, Temperate and tropical cyclones; Types and distribution of precipitation; Weather and Climate; Koppen's, Thornthwaite's and Trewartha's classification of world climates; Hydrological cycle; Global climatic change and role and response of man in climatic changes, Applied climatology and Urban climate. 3. Oceanography Bottom topography of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans; Temperature and salinity of the oceans; Heat and salt budgets, Ocean deposits; Waves, currents and tides; Marine resources: biotic, mineral and energy resources; Coral reefs, coral bleaching; sea-level changes; law of the sea and marine pollution. 4. Biogeography Genesis of soils; Classification and distribution of soils; Soil profile; Soil erosion, Degradation and conservation; Factors influencing world distribution of plants and animals; Problems of deforestation and conservation measures; Social forestry; agro-forestry; Wild life; Major gene pool centres. 5. Environmental Geography Principle of ecology; Human ecological adaptations; Influence of man on ecology and environment; Global and regional ecological changes and imbalances; Ecosystem their management and conservation; Environmental degradation, management and conservation; Biodiversity and sustainable development; Environmental policy; Environmental hazards and remedial measures; Environmental education and legislation. Human Geography 1. Perspectives in Human Geography Areal differentiation; regional synthesis; Dichotomy and dualism; Environmentalism; Quantitative revolution and locational analysis; radical, behavioural, human and welfare approaches; Languages, religions and secularisation; Cultural regions of the world; Human development index. 2. Economic Geography World economic development: measurement and problems; World resources and their distribution; Energy crisis; the limits to growth; World agriculture: typology of agricultural regions; agricultural inputs and productivity; Food and nutrition problems; Food security; famine: causes, effects and remedies; World industries: locational patterns and problems; patterns of world trade. 3. Population and Settlement Geography Growth and distribution of world population; demographic attributes; Causes and consequences of migration; concepts of over-under-and optimum population; Population theories, world population problems and policies, Social well-being and quality of life; Population as social capital. Types and patterns of rural settlements; Environmental issues in rural settlements; Hierarchy of urban settlements; Urban morphology: Concepts of primate city and rank-size rule; Functional classification of towns; Sphere of urban influence; Rural - urban fringe; Satellite towns; Problems and remedies of urbanization; Sustainable development of cities. 4. Regional Planning Concept of a region; Types of regions and methods of regionalisation; Growth centres and growth poles; Regional imbalances; regional development strategies; environmental issues in regional planning; Planning for sustainable development. 5. Models, Theories and Laws in Human Geography Systems analysis in Human geography; Malthusian, Marxian and demographic transition models; Central Place theories of Christaller and Losch;Perroux and Boudeville; Von Thunen's model of agricultural location; Weber's model of industrial location; Ostov's model of stages of growth. Heartland and Rimland theories; Laws of international boundaries and frontiers.
	PAPER - II
	GEOGRAPHY OF INDIA
	1. Physical Setting Space relationship of India with neighboring countries; Structure and relief; Drainage system and watersheds; Physiographic regions; Mechanism of Indian monsoons and rainfall patterns, Tropical cyclones and western disturbances; Floods and droughts; Climatic regions; Natural vegetation; Soil types and their distributions. 2. Resources Land, surface and ground water, energy, minerals, biotic and marine resources; Forest and wild life resources and their conservation; Energy crisis. 3. Agriculture Infrastructure: irrigation, seeds, fertilizers, power; Institutional factors: land holdings, land tenure and land reforms; Cropping pattern, agricultural productivity, agricultural intensity, crop combination, land capability; Agro and social-forestry; Green revolution and its socio- economic and ecological implications; Significance of dry farming; Livestock resources and white revolution; aqua - culture; sericulture, apiculture and poultry; agricultural regionalisation; agro-climatic zones; agro- ecological regions. 4. Industry Evolution of industries; Locational factors of cotton, jute, textile, iron and steel, aluminium, fertilizer, paper, chemical and pharmaceutical, automobile, cottage and agro - based industries; Industrial houses and complexes including public sector undertakings; Industrial regionalisation; New industrial policies; Multinationals and liberalization; Special Economic Zones; Tourism including eco -tourism. 5. Transport, Communication and Trade  Road, railway, waterway, airway and pipeline networks and their complementary roles in regional development; Growing importance of ports on national and foreign trade; Trade balance; Trade Policy; Export processing zones; Developments in communication and information technology and their impacts on economy and society; Indian space programme. 6. Cultural Setting Historical Perspective of Indian Society; Racial, linguistic and ethnic diversities; religious minorities; major tribes, tribal areas and their problems; cultural regions; Growth, distribution and density of population; Demographic attributes: sex-ratio, age structure, literacy rate, work-force, dependency ratio, longevity; migration (inter-regional, intra- regional and international) and associated problems; Population problems and policies; Health indicators. 7. Settlements Types, patterns and morphology of rural settlements; Urban developments; Morphology of Indian cities; Functional classification of Indian cities; Conurbations and metropolitan regions; urban sprawl; Slums and associated problems; town planning; Problems of urbanization and remedies. 8. Regional Development and Planning Experience of regional planning in India; Five Year Plans; Integrated rural development programmes; Panchayati Raj and decentralised planning; Command area development; Watershed management; Planning for backward area, desert, drought prone, hill, tribal area development; multi-level planning; Regional planning and development of island territories. 9. Political Aspects Geographical basis of Indian federalism; State reorganisation; Emergence of new states; Regional consciousness and inter state issues; international boundary of India and related issues; Cross border terrorism; India's role in world affairs; Geopolitics of South Asia and Indian Ocean realm. 10. Contemporary Issues Ecological issues: Environmental hazards: landslides, earthquakes, Tsunamis, floods and droughts, epidemics; Issues relating to environmental pollution; Changes in patterns of land use; Principles of environmental impact assessment and environmental management; Population explosion and food security; Environmental degradation; Deforestation, desertification and soil erosion; Problems of agrarian and industrial unrest; Regional disparities in economic development; Concept of sustainable growth and development; Environmental awareness; Linkage of rivers; Globalisation and Indian economy. Note : Candidates will be required to answer one compulsory map question pertinent to subjects covered by this paper. click here