Study Guides

Map Guides

The facts behind every blank MAPZi practice map — your answer key for filling one in, and the same maps you can pick up printed in the store.

India

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ISRO Centres in India — Map & Complete List

The Indian Space Research Organisation runs a genuinely nationwide network — not one campus, but 26 separate establishments spread from Thiruvananthapuram to Shillong, each doing a different part of the job: designing rockets, building satellites, tracking them once they're in orbit, or actually launching them.

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Nuclear Power Plants in India — Map & List of Reactor Sites

India's nuclear power programme runs on 7 operating sites today, with a second wave of construction already underway aimed at a national target of 100 GWe of nuclear capacity by 2047.

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National Parks of India — Map & Complete List

India's protected-area network spans 86 National Parks and 463 Wildlife Sanctuaries — 549 marked locations in total, reaching every state and union territory.

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Mountain Passes of India — Map & List of 37 Major Passes

India's mountain passes range from Umling La in Ladakh — at 5,799 metres, the world's highest motorable road — down to the Palakkad Gap at just 230 metres, a low break in the Western Ghats far from the Himalaya entirely.

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Mountain Peaks of India & the Himalayas — Map & List

This map covers India and its high-mountain neighbourhood together — the subcontinent's great peaks, from Everest and Kangchenjunga on the Nepal border to K2 and Nanga Parbat in the Karakoram, and Nanda Devi and Kailash within India's own Himalayan and trans-Himalayan zone.

World

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World Tectonic Plate Boundaries — Map & Guide

Every tectonic plate boundary on Earth falls into one of three types — divergent (ridges), convergent (trenches and subduction zones), or transform (strike-slip faults) — and this map traces all three, from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to the San Andreas Fault and the Mariana Trench.

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World Pressure Belts & Wind Systems — Map & Guide

Earth's seven pressure belts, mirrored symmetrically across the Equator, drive four wind systems — and learning the belts first, before the winds, is what makes the whole pattern click: each wind is just air flowing from a high-pressure belt to the nearest low, deflected by the Coriolis effect.

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Ocean Currents of the World — Map & Guide

Ocean currents look like a long list to memorise until you notice they follow a small number of real, learnable rules — warm currents flow poleward, cold currents flow back toward the Equator, and which side of a continent gets which is almost never random.

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Soil Types of India — Map & Classification Guide

India's soils are classified into 8 major types, each shaped by a different combination of parent rock, rainfall, and terrain — and each with a distinct footprint on the map that competitive-exam geography tests directly.

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Heavy Water Plants of India — Map & Complete List

Heavy water (D2O) is the moderator and coolant that makes India's fleet of pressurised heavy-water reactors (PHWRs) work — and the 8 plants built under the Heavy Water Board programme to produce it form their own distinct map, separate from the reactor sites they supply.

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Telangana Protected Areas — Map & Complete List

Telangana's protected-area map splits cleanly into two very different groups — three tiny National Parks clustered around Hyderabad, all notified in the same year, and nine much larger Wildlife Sanctuaries strung along the Godavari in the north and the Krishna gorge in the south, two of which also carry Tiger Reserve status.

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Telangana Dams & Reservoirs — Map & Complete List

Nearly every dam in Telangana sits on one of just two river systems — the Godavari in the north and east, the Krishna in the south — so the fastest way to learn this map is by basin, not by memorising thirty separate names in no particular order.