PrepShark Atlas

Atlas of Telangana

Two rivers, one plateau, thirty-three districts and the water works built across them — the state paper as places you can be asked to point at.

4 layers

Physical geography

The plateau the state sits on, and the two rivers that drain it from opposite corners.

The Godavari & its tributaries
The northern river and its tributaries
8 places on the map
The Krishna & its tributaries
The southern river and its tributaries
6 places on the map
Lakes & Kakatiya tanks
Kakatiya tanks and the Hyderabad lakes
9 places on the map
Hill ranges & high points
Ranges, high points and the Nallamala
4 places on the map

In preparation: Physiographic regions.

3 layers

What is protected here, how little of it there is, and which forest the protection was drawn around.

In preparation: Forest tracts & types, Wetlands & biodiversity sites, Species strongholds.

3 layers

Where the state lifts, stores and carries its water, and why almost all of it has to be lifted.

Dams & reservoirs
Storages on the Godavari and the Krishna
12 places on the map
The Kaleshwaram system
The barrages and reservoirs, in order
8 places on the map
Lift irrigation schemes
Schemes that raise water onto the plateau
4 places on the map

In preparation: Barrages & anicuts, Canals & tunnels.

1 layer

One coalfield, one metropolitan software economy, and the corridors the state is trying to run between them.

Coal belts & Singareni mines
Singareni belts and the Gondwana measures
7 places on the map

In preparation: Mineral belts, Power stations, Industrial hubs & clusters, Industrial corridors, IT hubs, Special economic zones.

2 layers

How the state has redrawn itself twice since 2014, and which of those maps an answer key is using.

Districts & headquarters
All thirty-three, with their headquarters
33 places on the map
The ten districts of 2014
The map every pre-2016 answer key uses
10 places on the map

In preparation: Revenue divisions, Municipal corporations.

2 layers

Four dynasties that each left a capital, a fort line and a temple style on the same plateau.

World Heritage & tentative list
Ramappa, and the tentative list beside it
2 places on the map
Forts
Kakatiya, Qutb Shahi and Asaf Jahi forts
9 places on the map

In preparation: Temples & pilgrim centres, Archaeological & Buddhist sites, Capitals & historic cities, Tribal regions & PVTG homelands.