GK for IB ACIO 2020, GK Notes for ACIO Exam on World Geography (Part III)

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

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