After IB ACIO GK Notes for World Geography Part I & Part II, we are sharing the part III of this world geography series. We have provided the following topics here.
- Major rivers of the world
- Major tribal groups of the world
Major Rivers of the World
Name of the River | Origin of the River | Drain into |
Nile (Longest river in the world) | White Nile and the Blue Nile, Africa | Mediterranean Sea |
Amazon (Largest river in the world) | Rio MantaroRio Mantaro, Huancayo Province, Peru | Atlantic Ocean |
Yangtze | Qinghai, China | East China Sea |
Ob | Katun river, Near Biysk, Russia | Gulf of Ob |
Yellow river | Bayan Har Mountain, china | Gulf of Chihli |
Yenisei | Mongolia | Arctic Ocean |
Congo river | The sources of the Congo are in the Highlands and mountains of the East African Rift, as well as Lake Tanganyika and Lake Mweru, which feed the Lualaba River | Atlantic Ocean |
Mackenzie | Great Slave Lake, Canada | (Arctic Ocean) |
Niger | Guinea | Gulf of Guinea |
Mekong | Tibetan highlands | the South China Sea |
Mississippi | Lake Itasca, Minnesota | Gulf of Mexico |
Missouri | Confluence of Jefferson, Gallatin, and Madison rivers, Montana | Mississippi River |
Volga | Valdai plateau, Russia | Caspian Sea |
Danube | Black Forest, Germany | Black Sea |
Euphrates | Confluence of Murat Nehri and Kara Su rivers, Turkey | Shatt-al-Arab |
Darling | Central part of the Eastern Highlands, A ustralia | Murray River |
Zambezi | 11°21'S, 24°22'E, Zambia | Mozambique Channel |
Murray | Australian Alps, New South Wales | the Indian Ocean |
Nelson | Head of Bow River, western Alberta, Canada | Hudson Bay |
Paraguay | Mato Grosso, Brazil | Paraná River |
Ural | Southern Ural Mts ., Russia | Caspian Sea |
Amu Darya (Oxus) | Nicholas Range, Pamir Mts ., Turkmenistan | Aral Sea |
Colorado | Grand County, Colorado | Gulf of California |
Dnieper | Valdai Hills, Russia | Black Sea |
Irrawaddy | Confluence of Nmai and Mali rivers, northeast Burma | Bay of Bengal |
Orange | Lesotho | Atlantic Ocean |
Don | Tula, Russia | Sea of Azov |
Tigris | Lake Hazar, Turkey | Persian Gulf |
Major Tribal Groups of the World
Name of the Tribes | Place of Origin |
Ainu | Japan |
Afridi | Pakistan |
Auka | Ecuador |
Aborigines | Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia. |
Bedouins | Kalahari Desert of Africa including countries Botswana, Namibia, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and South Africa. |
Bushmen | Southern Africa |
Fellah | Egypt (Famurs) |
Yakuts | Tunda region of Russia |
Bantus | Central and southern Africa |
Gaucho | Pampas in Uruguay and Argentina. |
Masai | East Africa |
Pygmies | Zaire Basin in Africa |
Hausa | Nigeria |
Kirghiz | steppe-type region in Asia |
Eskimos | Tundra region in Siberia (Russia), Alaska, Canada and Greenland |
Fulani | Nigeria |
Red Indians | North America |
Zulus | South Africa and also live in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Mozambique |
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