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RAS question

How many Indian states share a border with Nepal?

Correct answer: (A) Five (UP, Uttarakhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Sikkim).

Five Indian states share a border with Nepal: Sikkim, West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

  1. (A)

    Five (UP, Uttarakhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Sikkim)

  2. (B)

    Four

  3. (C)

    Three

  4. (D)

    Seven

Explanation

Nepal borders five Indian states, not four or three: Sikkim, West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. The Ministry of External Affairs' India-Nepal bilateral brief gives this state list in its overview, which directly supports option A. The India-Nepal boundary is 1,751 km long, runs along the Himalayan foothills, and is an open border where citizens can move freely. For RAS, the key is to remember the full east-to-west chain rather than only the longer plains stretches through Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

Why the other options are wrong

  • (B) Four is too few because it leaves out at least one state from the MEA-listed set of Sikkim, West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
  • (C) Three is too few because Nepal's Indian border is not limited to the central plains states; it also includes Sikkim, West Bengal and Uttarakhand.
  • (D) Seven is too many because the official MEA brief identifies exactly five Indian states sharing Nepal's border.

Concept

This tests India's international borders and neighbouring-country geography. It recurs in RAS because map-based state-border questions are a compact way to test both political geography and India-Nepal relations.

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