Consider the following pairs: 1. North Kivu and Ituri — War between Armenia and Azerbaijan 2.…

Consider the following pairs: 1. North Kivu and Ituri — War between Armenia and Azerbaijan 2. Nagorno-Karabakh — Insurgency in Mozambique 3. Kherson and Zaporizhzhia — Dispute between Israel and Lebanon. How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?
  1. Only one
  2. Only two
  3. All three
  4. None

Solution

Per the official UPSC key, the answer is A. None of the pairs is correctly matched in fact — North Kivu is in DRC, Nagorno-Karabakh is Armenia-Azerbaijan, Kherson/Zaporizhzhia is Ukraine-Russia. Most keys marked D.

Asked in: UPSC Prelims 2023

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