Place Botswana
Asked 2 times across 2 UPSC exams over 3 years (2022–2025), peaking in 2025.
Key insights
- Most tested in CSE — 1 of 2 PYQs
- First appeared in CISF 2022 — 3 years before CSE 2025 (allied exams preview CSE)
- Most asked in 2025
- Recurs across 2 years (2022–2025)
How it travelled across exams
First appearance in each exam — the same idea, reframed.
CISF 2022 → CSE 2025
How the concept evolved
Rising — more than half its appearances (2 of 2) are since 2016.
Related concepts
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Sample questions
You've seen the pattern — here are a few of the actual PYQs.
CSE2025
Consider the following pairs : Country | Resource-rich in
- Botswana : Diamond
- Chile : Lithium
- Indonesia : Nickel In
how many of the above rows is the given information correctly matched?
- A Only one
- B Only two
- C All the three ✓
- D None
✓ Correct answer: (C)
Geography › World Regional Geography
CISF2022
Tropic of Capricorn passes through which one of the following countries ?
- A Bolivia
- B Botswana ✓
- C Zimbabwe
- D Uruguay
✓ Correct answer: (B)
Geography › Maps & Location
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