Pahalgam attack 2025 - Indus water treaty becomes important

Western rivers - Indus, Jhelum, Chenab
Eastern rivers - Ravi, Beas, Sutlej

A physiographical look at Iran - important for prelims 2026

Gulf of Eilat/Aqaba - Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia

Equator passing countries

Tropic of cancer passing countries

Tropic of capricorn passing countries

mountain passes

#mapping #prelims2026

Ganga and Brahmaputra
#mapping #prelims2026

Iran rivers map 🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷#mapping #prelims2026

Greenland
#mapping #prelims2026

UNESCO World Heritage Sites map. 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

Asked in Prelims

👉 44 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in India. Out of these, 35 are Cultural, 7 are Natural and 1 is Mixed Heritage Sites

👉 Maratha Military Landscapes of India was included in 2025 as the 44th Indian site. It includes 12 strategically built forts reflecting the military ingenuity of the Maratha Empire(one fort lies in Tamil Nadu, rest in Maharastra).

👉 Maharashtra: Salher, Shivneri, Lohgad, Khanderi, Raigad, Rajgad, Pratapgad, Suvarnadurg, Panhala, Vijaydurg, Sindhudurg
👉 Tamil Nadu: Gingee Fort
👉 Moidams – the Mound-Burial System of the Ahom Dynasty included in 2024.
👉 The Hoysala Temples (Karnataka)and
Santiniketan (West Bengal) were added in 2023.

Red Sea - 6 bordering countries - (DESSEY) Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Sudan, Eritrea, and Djibouti

#mapoftheday

Zangezur corridor - connects Azerbaijan's mainland to Turkey via Armenia

Nakhchivan region - Azerbaijan

Black sea - 6 bordering countries
(Turkish BURGeR)
Turkiye, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Romania, Georgia, Russia

#mapoftheday

Caspian sea - 5 bordering countries
(TARIK) - Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan

#mapoftheday

North sea - 8 bordering countries
(BF SEND GN) - Belgium, France, Scotland, England, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands

Mediterranean sea -

Bordering Countries:
❇ 22 countries and one territory (Gibraltar – a British Overseas Territory) have coasts on the Mediterranean Sea.

❇ The European Countries are Spain, France, Italy, Malta, Monaco, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, and Greece.

❇ The West Asian countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea are Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, the Palestine Gaza Strip and the divided island of Cyprus.

❇ Five North African nations have coasts on the Mediterranean Sea: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.

Baltic sea - 9 bordering states
(RuDe Germany SELL Poland and Finland)

🇷🇺 Russia
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇩🇪 Germany
🇸🇪 Sweden
🇪🇪 Estonia
🇱🇻 Latvia
🇱🇹 Lithuania
🇵🇱 Poland
🇫🇮 Finland

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