Which of the following airports has the northern-most location?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Guwahati
All four airports are marked on the map of India’s air routes, and their order is read against the lines of latitude on it:
Guwahati — in the Brahmaputra valley of Assam, above the 24°N line, the northern-most of the four.
Aizawal — in Mizoram, just south of 24°N, beside the Tropic of Cancer.
Raipur — in Chhattisgarh, south of the Tropic of Cancer, between Nagpur and Bhubaneswar on the map.
Belagavi — in Karnataka, near Panaji, far down in the peninsula.
Tip: Keep the maps of each chapter open while you revise; a question on positions is settled by reading the map, not the text.
NCERT (2025-26): “Airports Air transport plays an important role in the international trade. It has the advantage of taking the least time for carriage and handling high value or perishable goods over long distances. It is very costly and unsuitable for carrying heavy and bulky commodities. This ultimately reduces the participation of this sector in the international trade as compared to the oceanic routes. There were 25 major airports functioning in the country (Annual Report 2016-17). They are Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Goa, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Thiruvananthapuram, Srinagar, Jaipur, Calicut, Nagpur, Coimbatore, Cochin, Lucknow, Pune, Chandigarh, Mangaluru, Vishakhapatnam, Indore, Patna, Bhubaneswar and Kannur.…”
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