Which of the following (Port-Country) is not correctly matched?

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Correct — C, Igarka – China is the wrong pair. Igarka is a river port on the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia — it is in RUSSIA, not China. It lies above the Arctic Circle and was historically a major timber-exporting port. The other three pairs are all correct, so the incorrectly matched one is Igarka–China.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Correctly matched — Montevideo is the capital and chief port of Uruguay, on the Río de la Plata estuary.  (b) Correctly matched — Rotterdam, on the Rhine-Meuse delta, is the largest port in Europe and lies in the Netherlands.  (d) Correctly matched — Jakarta is the capital and principal port of Indonesia (its harbour is Tanjung Priok), on the island of Java.

Concept: This is a port-to-country matching test. Three pairs are standard capital/major ports — Montevideo (Uruguay), Rotterdam (Netherlands, Europe's biggest port) and Jakarta (Indonesia). The odd one out is Igarka, a Siberian river port on the Yenisei in Russia, wrongly paired here with China.

State PCS 2023 Q70 — Geography PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2023 Q70 — Geography PYQ with Answer