Geography
Sierra de la Culebra
- Zamora province, Spain
- In News: Wildfires has engulfed the entire region
- Firefighters in Spain struggled to contain wildfires in several parts of the country, which is suffering a heat wave unusual for this time of the year.
Oromia
- Oromia, Ethiopia
- In News: Ethnic attack
- More than 200 ethnic Amhara have been killed in an attack in the country’s Oromia region
- Ethiopia is experiencing widespread ethnic tensions in several regions, most of them over historical grievances and political tensions.
- The Amhara people, the second-largest ethnic group among Ethiopia’s more than 110 million populations, have been targeted frequently in regions like Oromia.
- Ethnic Amhara settled in the area about 30 years ago in resettlement programs
Source: Indian Express
Previous Year Questions
Q.1) Consider the following pairs: (2022)
Regions in News Country
- Anatolia – Turkey
- Amhara – Ethiopia
- Cabo Delgado – Spain
- Catalonia – Italy
How many pairs given above are correctly matched?
- Only one pair
- Only two pairs
- Only three pairs
- All four pairs
