Map and location knowledge: world by region
Map: Europe and Russia
Practise 5 PYQsConcepts to cover
- Countries by sea: Black Sea (Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Georgia); Adriatic (Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania); North Sea (UK, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France); Baltic states
- Ukraine and its neighbours; Belarus, Moldova, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, the Baltics; Crimea and the Sea of Azov
- Regions in the news: Catalonia and Basque Country (Spain), Normandy, Brittany and Corsica (France), Sardinia and Sicily (Italy), Mallorca (Spain), Bavaria, Flanders and Wallonia, Scotland, Kosovo, Transnistria
- Bosporus and Dardanelles, Gibraltar, Dover, Oresund, Kiel canal, Danube and Rhine cities
- Russia's far east: Chukotka and Anadyr opposite Nome across the Bering Strait, Kamchatka, Sakhalin, Vladivostok, Kuril islands, Siberian rivers
Where to study
Exploring Society: India and Beyond, Class VI, chapter 2: Oceans and Continents (2024)
- ch. 2, Oceans and Continents, p. 1-14 (book pages 27-40)
UPSC Detailed (Micro Topic) Syllabus: Geography (Prelims)
- Landforms across the world
Map of the World, UN Geospatial map no. 4651 rev. 1 (October 2022), political
- sheet 1, country names and boundaries, p. 1
Fundamentals of Human Geography, Class XII, chapter 8: International Trade (Reprint 2026-27)
- ch. 8, Dover, p. 7 (book page 76)
Fundamentals of Human Geography, Class XII, chapter 7: Transport and Communication (Reprint 2026-27)
- ch. 7, The Rhine Waterways, p. 12 (book page 65)
- ch. 7, The Danube Waterway, p. 12 (book page 65)
- ch. 7, Trans–Siberian Railway, p. 5-7 (book pages 58-60)