Question

With which country/countries does India share its land boundaries in the northwest?
A. Pakistan and Tajikistan
B. Afghanistan
C. Afghanistan and China
D. Pakistan and Afghanistan

Answer 1

Hint:
India is a vast country and covered from all the sides, i.e. north, south, east and west by some of the countries or the other. For example: In south India it shares maritime borders with Sri Lanka, Maldives and Indonesia.

Complete step by step solution:
Option A ‘Pakistan’ shares its land boundaries with four countries i.e. China, Afghanistan, India and Iran whereas ‘Tajikistan’ is separated by a thin corridor of Wakhan. Therefore, both the countries have different land boundaries and one of them is not connected to India. So, it is an incorrect answer.

Option B ‘Afghanistan’ shares the land boundaries with Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and India. But, it is an incorrect answer because India in the northwest shares boundaries with more countries other than Afghanistan.

Option C ‘Afghanistan shares boundaries with six main countries. In case of China, it shares boundaries with fourteen countries, i.e. Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Vietnam. But China does not share a boundary with India in the northwest rather it shares in the North only. So, it is also an incorrect answer.

Option D ‘Pakistan and Afghanistan’ both lie in the Northwest area and share boundaries with India which absolutely matches with the given question and is the correct answer.


Hence, the correct answer is option D.

Note:
 India shares its land boundaries with seven countries – Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Northwest, China, Bhutan and Nepal to the North, Myanmar and Bangladesh to the East. Sri Lanka in the Southeast and Maldives in the Southwest share water borders.