Regions sometimes mentioned in news Country
- Catalonia Spain
- Crimea Hungary
- Mindanao Philippines
- Oromia Nigeria
Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched?
(a) 1, 2 and 3
(b) 3 and 4 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 2 and 4 only
Answer: (c)
Pair 1 is correctly matched: Catalonia is an autonomous community in the north-eastern corner of Spain. It is one of Spain’s wealthiest regions. It consists of four provinces, such as Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona.
Pair 2 is not correctly matched: Crimea is a peninsula located on the northern coast of the Black Sea. In 2014, Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine in an illegal move that violated the territorial integrity of the former Soviet republic and sparked a war that has displaced nearly 2 million people and destroyed the country’s infrastructure.
Pair 3 is correctly matched: Mindanao is the second-largest island in the Philippines, after Luzon.
Pair 4 is not correctly matched: The Oromo people are the native inhabitants of Ethiopia, Eastern Africa. Their population is estimated to be 55 million, which makes it the largest ethnic group in Eastern Africa
