Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Powerplant: It is located on the banks of the Dnieper river, just 200 kilometers from the conflicted Donbas region where Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian forces have been fighting. Zaporizhzhya is one of the four operating NPPs in the country and has been operating since 1984. It accounts for about 40% of the total electricity generated by all the Ukrainian NPPs and one-fifth …
Razzaza Lake: Razzaza Lake, also known as Lake Milh, Arabic for Salt Lake, is located between Iraq’s governorates of Anbar and Karbala. It’s the second largest lake in Iraq and is part of a wide valley that includes the lakes of Habbaniyah, Tharthar and Bahr al-Najaf. Lake Tharthar is the largest. The lake was constructed as a measure to control …
Point Nemo: It is the most isolated location on the planet located between New Zealand and Cape Horn. It is used as a cemetery for spacecrafts debris. It is 2700 km away from the closest land i.e. Pitcairn Island and Motu Nui islands.
Donbas Region: Donetsk and Luhansk are two states located in eastern Ukraine, which share a border with Russia. Within these two states are two separatist territories known as the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR), which are run by Russian and Russian-backed separatists. This entire region, which includes Donetsk, Luhansk and their …
Falkland Islands: Falkland Islands is also called Malvinas Islands or Spanish Islas Malvinas. It is an internally self-governing overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the South Atlantic Ocean. It lies about 300 miles northeast of the southern tip of South America and a similar distance east of the Strait of Magellan. The capital and major town is Stanley, …
Solomon Islands: Solomon Islands is a country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of a double chain of volcanic islands and coral atolls in Melanesia. The Solomon Islands consist of six major and approximately 900 smaller volcanic islands, coral atolls and reefs. The archipelago nation consists of several large volcanic islands to the south-east …
As per WMO, Verkhoyansk, a Siberian town experienced the highest temperature of 38 C, the highest ever recorded temperature in the Arctic region. This place falls in eastern Siberia, which has an extremely harsh dry continental climate (very cold winter and hot summer). On February 6th 2020, at the Esperanza station in Argentina considered to be a …
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Nusantara: It is the new Capital of Indonesia. Indonesian parliament has approved a bill to relocate the Nation’s capital from Jakarta to Kalimantan area on Borneo Island. The new centre will be called “Nusantara”. It is a Javanese name for the Indonesian archipelago chosen by the president. Reason for relocation: Jakarta suffers from issues like Chronic congestion, …
Mozambique is a central African nation. India has sent food and defence equipment to under Mission Sagar. It was delivered at Port Maputo of Mozambique. Why aid is being sent? Mozambique is facing a lot of challenges like terrorism in its northern part. A recent United nation report has warned about Islamic state’s (also known as Da’esh) growing influence in …
Barbados: Barbados is an eastern Caribbean island and an independent British Commonwealth nation Nearly 400 years after the country became a British colony, Barbados has become the world’s newest republic. This was done after Barbados removed Queen Elizabeth II as the head of the state in a ceremony attended by Prince Charles. What is the …