1.

Write a note on railways in Asia.

Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :In Asia, rail network is the most dense in the thickly populated <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/areas-883934" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about AREAS">AREAS</a> of Japan, China and India. Other countries have relatively few rail routes. West Asia is the least developed in rail facilities because of vast deserts and sparsely populated regions. One of the most important railways of Asia is trans-Siberian Railways, a <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/major-552614" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about MAJOR">MAJOR</a> rail route of Russia which runs from St. Petersburg in the west to Vladivostok on the Pacific Coast in the cast passing through Moscow, Ufa, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Chita and Khabarovsk. It is the most important route in Asia and the longest (9,332 km) double-tracked and electrified trans-continental railway in the world. It has helped in opening up its Asian region to West European markets. It runs across the Ural Mountains <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/ob-582890" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about OB">OB</a> and Yenisei rivers. Chita is an important agro-centre and Irkutsk, a fur centre. There are connecting links to the south, namely, to <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/odessa-584838" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ODESSA">ODESSA</a> (<a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/ukraine-1380" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about UKRAINE">UKRAINE</a>), Baku on the Caspian Coast, Tashkent (Uzbekistan), Ulan Bator (Mongolia), and Shenyang (Mukden) and Beijing in China. There is a proposal to build Trans Asiatic railway linking Istanbul with Bangkok via Iran, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Myanmar.</body></html>


Discussion

No Comment Found

Related InterviewSolutions