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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which South Asian country is known as the Land of Canals?
A
Burma
B
Pakistan
C
Bangladesh
D
Bhutan
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Pakistan is known as the country of Canals because Pakistan has been developed an extensive network of canals from the Indus and its tributaries. This is the reason why Pakistan is an agricultural country despite the low rainfall. Hence, Option 3 is correct.

Detailed explanation-2: -Nara Canal, important water channel in Sindh province, Pakistan, the longest canal in the country. From its source above Rohri, it runs southward and discharges into the Puran River, an old channel of the Indus River, which flows to the sea farther south through the Rann of Kutch.

Detailed explanation-3: -South Asia includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hence, Finland is known as the “Land of Thousands Lakes".

Detailed explanation-5: -British engineers built the world’s largest canal irrigation system in Sindh in the lower Indus in the 1840s. Many more dams, barrages, weirs and canals were built after the exit of the British Raj in 1947.

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