Official Question UPSC 2025
Consider the following pairs: Region – Country I. Mallorca : Italy II. Normandy : Spain III. Sardinia : France In how many of the above rows is the given information correctly matched?
Solution & Analysis
Answer: D
Based on standard geographic charting found in the Oxford Atlas, every single pair provided in the prompt is deliberately mismatched to test regional spatial awareness.
•Pair I is Incorrect: Mallorca (or Majorca) is the largest island in the Balearic Islands archipelago, which is an autonomous community of Spain in the Mediterranean Sea, not Italy.
•Pair II is Incorrect: Normandy is a historic and globally famous geographic region located in northern France, bordered by the English Channel. It has no territorial connection to Spain.
•Pair III is Incorrect: Sardinia is a large island in the Mediterranean Sea that belongs to Italy, not France. (Its neighboring island to the north, Corsica, belongs to France).
Since all pairings are factually inverted, none of the rows are correctly matched.