Which one of the following is NOT correctly matched ?
(Country) — (Capital)

Question

UnlockIAS · Accepted Answer

Correct — D, the wrongly matched pair. The capital of Cape Verde (Cabo Verde), an island nation off West Africa, is Praia, located on Santiago island — NOT Bamako. Bamako is the capital of Mali, a landlocked country on the African mainland. So 'Cape Verde — Bamako' is the pair that is NOT correctly matched, which is exactly what the question asks for. The other three pairs are all correct: Morocco's capital is Rabat, Tunisia's is Tunis, and Algeria's is Algiers — the three Maghreb (north-west African) capitals.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Correctly matched — Rabat is the capital of Morocco (its largest city is Casablanca), so this is not the answer to a 'NOT correctly matched' question.  (b) Correctly matched — Tunis is the capital of Tunisia, so it cannot be the mismatched pair.  (c) Correctly matched — Algiers is the capital of Algeria, so it cannot be the mismatched pair.

Concept: African political geography — countries and their capitals. Three of the pairs are Maghreb states of north-west Africa (Morocco–Rabat, Tunisia–Tunis, Algeria–Algiers). The odd one out uses Cape Verde, a small Atlantic island republic west of Senegal, whose capital is Praia; the option deliberately swaps in Bamako, which is actually the capital of Mali.

State PCS 2020 Q82 — Geography PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2020 Q82 — Geography PYQ with Answer