Here is Question No. 27 a part of our series on UPSC Prelims 2022.
Q27. Consider the following countries:
Azerbaijan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Which of the above has borders with Afghanistan? a) 1, 2 and 5 only b) 1, 2, 3 and 4 only c) 3, 4 and 5 only d) 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
Answer – C
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is a landlocked country in southern Central Asia. It borders Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan to the north, Iran to the west, and Pakistan to the east and south. Afghanistan is completely landlocked—the nearest coast lies along the Arabian Sea, about 300 miles (480 km) to the south—and, because of both its isolation and its volatile political history, it remains one of the most poorly surveyed areas of the world. It is bounded to the east and south by Pakistan (including those areas of Kashmir administered by Pakistan but claimed by India), to the west by Iran, and to the north by the Central Asian states of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. It also has a short border with Xinjiang, China, at the end of the long, narrow Vākhān (Wakhan Corridor), in the extreme northeast.
