Which one of the following is NOT correctly matched ?
(Country) — (Iron-Ore Producing Area)

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Correct — C, Germany — Normandy is the wrongly matched pair. Normandy is a region of northern France, not Germany, so it cannot be Germany's iron-ore area. Germany's iron-ore and heavy-industry heartland is the Ruhr region (with iron ore also at Salzgitter). Because this is a 'NOT correctly matched' question, the odd pair (c) is the answer.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Correctly matched — Karaganda in Kazakhstan is a major coal-and-iron industrial region, so it is not the exception the question asks for.  (b) Correctly matched — Krivoy Rog (Kryvyi Rih) in Ukraine is one of the world's great iron-ore basins, so this pair is right.  (d) Treated as correctly matched — France has iron-ore associations including the Pyrenees region, so it is not the mismatch; the unambiguous error is Germany-Normandy.

Concept: This tests world economic geography — matching countries to their well-known iron-ore or mining regions. Krivoy Rog (Ukraine) and Karaganda (Kazakhstan) are classic Eurasian iron/coal belts. France's iron ore is chiefly associated with Lorraine, with historic mining also in the Pyrenees and Normandy. Germany's iron-and-steel core is the Ruhr (and Salzgitter) — never Normandy, which lies in France.

State PCS 2020 Q70 — Geography PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2020 Q70 — Geography PYQ with Answer