{"id":2340,"date":"2024-05-01T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2024-05-01T18:06:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T12:36:00","slug":"q-consider-the-following-pairs-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-consider-the-following-pairs-34","title":{"rendered":"Q. Consider the following pairs:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Region often in news:   Country<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Chechnya : Russian Federation<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Darfur : Mali<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Swat Valley : Iraq<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Which of the above pairs is\/are correctly matched?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • 1 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 2 and 3 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 1 and 3 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 1, 2 and 3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Answer: (a) 1 only<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Notes:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

      Chechnya:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      • Chechnya, officially the Chechen Republic, is a\u00a0republic of Russia.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • It is situated in the\u00a0North Caucasus of Eastern Europe<\/strong>, between the Caspian Sea and Black Sea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
        \"Chechnya\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

        Darfur Region, Sudan<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        • The Darfur region constitutes\u00a0Western Sudan<\/strong>, present-Eastern Chad, and the present-Northern part of the Central African Republic Region.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
          \"darfur<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

          Swat Valley:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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          • Swat District, also known as the Swat Valley, is a district in the\u00a0Malakand Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • The valley was a major centre of early Buddhism of the ancient civilisation of Gandhara, mainly Gandharan Buddhism, with pockets of Buddhism persisting in the valley until the 17th century, after which the area became largely Muslim.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Swat was the centre of Hindu Shahis and the Sultanate of Swat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
            \"Swat\"<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            Region often in news:   Country Which of the above pairs is\/are correctly matched? Answer: (a) 1 only Notes: Chechnya: Darfur Region, Sudan: Swat Valley:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[47],"years":[59],"class_list":["post-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-international-relations","years-59"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":47,"label":"International Relations"}],"years":[{"value":59,"label":"2014"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":47,"name":"International Relations","slug":"international-relations","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":47,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":79,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}