15.Consider the following pairs : Region sometimes mentioned in news country
1. Catalonia – Spain
2. Crimea – Hungary
3. Mindanao – Philippines
4. Oromia – Nigeria
2. Crimea – Hungary
3. Mindanao – Philippines
4. Oromia – Nigeria
Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched?
a) 1, 2 and 3
b) 3 and 4 only
c) 1 and 3 only
d) 2 and 4 only
Ans: c) 1 and 3 onlya) 1, 2 and 3
b) 3 and 4 only
c) 1 and 3 only
d) 2 and 4 only
Explanation:-
Catalonia : Spain
Crimea : Ukraine
Mindanao : Philippines
Oromia : Ethiopia
Crimea : Ukraine
Mindanao : Philippines
Oromia : Ethiopia
The Catalonia
region, in north-eastern
Spain, is known
for Pyrenees Mountains.
There have been growing calls for Catalonian
independence.
Crimea
is a peninsula on the northern end of the Black Sea in Eastern Europe. With the
collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine
was formed as an independent
state in 1991
and most of the
peninsula was reorganized as the
Autonomous Republic of Crimea, while the city of Sevastopol retained its
special status within Ukraine.
Oromia
is one of the nine ethnically based regional states of Ethiopia