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The Line which outlines the two nations is named as Boundary Line. Ordinarily, an inquiry is randomly asked about some global or national limit line as a feature of General Awareness in competitive exams. It is very important and useful about the important international boundary lines between various countries because it will improve general knowledge.
Static GK is very important section in several bank related exams like IBPS, SBI and other bank related employment exams have banking awareness questions along with general awareness section. The Banking Awareness section primarily has questions related to the History of Banking, Banking Terms, Banking Products, Boundaries Between Countries, etc. The article Boundary Lines is very useful to score maximum marks in Boundary Lines related questions in Static GK sections.

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1. Line of Actual Control: India & China on the Northern Border
The Line of Actual Control (LAC) is the compelling (effective) outskirt among India and China. The LAC is 4,057-km long and crosses three territories of northern Indian states: western (Ladakh, Kashmir), center (Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh) and eastern (Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh).
2. Line of Control: India and Pakistan
The line of control is a 450 mile-long military control line which fills in as an outskirts cutting the questioned Indian and Pakistani administered parts of Kashmir into two. The two nations guarantee the area in full. The line is canvassed in many parts with overwhelming loops of spiked wire– a fence set up by India – and specked with Indian and Pakistani registration. In any case, individuals figure out how to press through undetected.
The LOC is certainly not a legitimately perceived limit since it was intended to be a temporary worldwide fringe which was settled upon by the two nations in the 1972 agreement. The agitated idea of the outskirt has kept the contention among India and Pakistan alive more than a long time since freedom from British provincial principle.
3. Durand Line: Afghanistan and Pakistan (British India)
The Durand Line was an outskirts limit among Afghanistan and Pakistan. It was built up after a 1893 update of comprehension (MoU) between Mortimer Durand of British India and Afghan Amir Abdur Rahman Khan. Referred to as an outskirts line, it is named after Mortimer Durand who was the Foreign Secretary of pilgrim British India at the time.
The 1893 MoU is a one page record, marked by Durand and Khan in which the two men concurred that Afghanistan and British India would remain companions, and not begin war with one another. It likewise specifies that the military of Khan may import weapons into Afghanistan through the Afghan ancestral regions and that British India would pay cash to Khan consistently. In 1947, British India finished and the new territory of Pakistan was made. In 1949, Afghanistan declared that the 1893 MoU ended up void (no longer legitimate) and has never acknowledged it from that point forward.
4. Radcliffe Line: India and Pakistan (its includes Bangladesh Line)
The Radcliffe Line was the limit outline line between the Indian and Pakistani segments of the Punjab and Bengal areas of British India. It was named after its engineer, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, who, as the joint executive of the two limit commissions for the two regions, got the duty to impartially isolate 175,000 square miles (450,000 km2) of region with 88 million people.
4. Blue Line: Israel & Lebanon
The Blue Line is a border demarcation between Lebanon and Israel published by the United Nations on 7 June 2000 for the purposes of determining whether Israel had fully withdrawn from Lebanon.
By September 2018 Israel completed 11 kilometers of a concrete barrier along its border with Lebanon designed to protect Israeli communities from Hezbollah infiltrations.
5. Green Line: Israel and its neighbors (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria)
The Green Line, or (pre-) 1967 outskirt or 1949 Armistice border, is the boundary line set out in the 1949 Armistice Agreements between the armed forces of Israel and those of its neighbors (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) after the 1948 Arab– Israeli War. It filled in as the true outskirts of the State of Israel from 1949 until the point that the Six-Day War in 1967.
The name originates from the green ink used to adhere to a meaningful boundary on the guide while the cease-fire talks were going on. After the Six-Day War, the regions caught by Israel past the Green Line came to be assigned as East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, and Sinai Peninsula (the Sinai Peninsula has since been come back to Egypt as a major aspect of the 1979 harmony bargain). These domains are regularly alluded to as Israeli-possessed regions.
6. Mason-Dixon Line: Maryland and Pennsylvania/Delaware in Colonia America
The Mason–Dixon line, also called the Mason and Dixon line or Mason's and Dixon's line, was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in the resolution of a border dispute involving Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware in Colonial America. It is still a demarcation line among four U.S. states, forming part of the borders of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia (originally part of Virginia before 1863). Later it became known as the border between the Northern United States and the Southern United States. Before the Missouri Compromise, the line (west of Delaware) marked the northern limit of slavery in the United States.
7. Curzon Line: Poland & Russia
The Curzon Line was a demarcation line between the Second Polish Republic and Bolshevik Russia, first proposed on December 8, 1919 at the Allied Supreme Council declaration. The line was authored by British Foreign Secretary, George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. In the wake of World War I and the Russian Civil War, the two countries disputed their borders, and the Polish-Soviet War erupted.
The line was based on the ethnic composition of the area. The final Peace of Riga (or Treaty of Riga) provided Poland with almost 135,000 km(52,000 sq mi) of land that was, on average, about 200 km east of the Curzon line.
8. Military Demarcation Line (MDL) or Armistice Line: North Korea and South Korea
The Military Demarcation Line (MDL), sometimes referred to as the Armistice Line, is the land border or demarcation line between North Korea and South Korea. On either side of the line is the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The MDL and DMZ were established by the Armistice at the end of the Korean War in 1953.
9. McMohan Line: North east India & Tibet
McMahon Line, frontier between Tibet and Assam in British India, negotiated between Tibet and Great Britain at the end of the Shimla Conference (October 1913 – July 1914) and named for the chief British negotiator, Sir Henry McMahon. It runs from the eastern border of Bhutan along the crest of the Himalayas until it reaches the great bend in the Brahmaputra River where that river emerges from its Tibetan course into the Assam Valley.
10. Maginot Line: France & Germany
The Maginot Line , named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, was a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles, and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by Germany and force them to move around the fortifications. Constructed on the French side of its borders with Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and Luxembourg, the line did not extend to the English Channel due to French strategy that envisioned a move into Belgium to counter a German assault.
11. Order Neisse Line: Germany & Poland (aftermath of World War II)
The Order Neisse Line is the international border between Germany and Poland. The Oder–Neisse line marked the border between East Germany and Poland from 1950 to 1990.
12. Hindenburg Line: Poland & Germany (at the time of First World War)
The Hindenburg Line was built during the winter of 1916–1917 on the Western Front om Arras to Laffaux, near Soissons on the Aisne. Construction of the Hindenburg Line in France was begun by the Germans in September 1916 to make a retirement from the Somme front possible as a means to counter an anticipated increase in the power of Anglo-French attacks in 1917.
13. Siegfried Line East: France & Germany (at the time of Second World War)
In English the term "Siegfried Line" commonly refers to the "Westwall", the German term for the Second World War-era defensive line built by Germany during the 1930s opposite the French Maginot Line. The Siegfried Line stretched more than 630 km (390 mi) and featured more than 18,000 bunkers, tunnels and tank traps.
14. 16th Parallel North: Angola and Namibia
The 16th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 16 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Africa, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, Central America, the Caribbean and the Atlantic Ocean.
At this latitude the sun is visible for 13 hours, 5 minutes during the summer solstice and 11 hours, 11 minutes during the winter solstice.
15. 17th Parallel Line: North & South Vietnam
The Seventeenth parallel was the provisional military demarcation line between North and South Vietnam established by the Geneva Accords of 1954.
16. 20th Parallel North: Libya & Sudan
The 20th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 20 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Africa, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, North America, the Caribbean and the Atlantic Ocean.
The parallel defines part of the border between Libya and Sudan, and within Sudan it defines the border between the Northern and North Darfur states. At this latitude the sun is visible for 13 hours, 21 minutes during the summer solstice and 10 hours, 55 minutes during the winter solstice.
17. 22th Parallel North: Egypt & Sudan
The 22nd parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 22 degrees south of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Indian Ocean, Australasia, the Pacific Ocean and South America. A section of the border between Namibia and Botswana, and two sections of the border between Bolivia and Argentina are defined by the parallel.
18. 24th Parallel: India & Myanmar
The 24th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 24 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Africa, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, North America and the Atlantic Ocean. At this latitude the sun is visible for 13 hours, 37 minutes during the summer solstice and 10 hours, 39 minutes during the winter solstice.
19. 25th Parallel North: Mauritania & Mali
The 25th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 25 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Africa, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, North America and the Atlantic Ocean.
The northernmost section of the border between Mauritania and Mali is defined by the parallel. At this latitude the sun is visible for 13 hours, 42 minutes during the summer solstice and 10 hours, 35 minutes during the winter solstice.
20. 26th Parallel North: Western Sahara & Mauritania
The 26th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 26 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Africa, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, North America and the Atlantic Ocean.
A section of the border between Western Sahara and Mauritania is defined by the parallel. At this latitude the sun is visible for 13 hours, 46 minutes during the summer solstice and 10 hours, 31 minutes during the winter solstice. The sun is at 40.17 degrees in the sky during the winter solstice and 87.83 degrees in the sky during the summer solstice.
21. 31 Parallel North: Iraq & Iran
The 31st parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 31 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Africa, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America and the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the border between Iran and Iraq is defined by the parallel. In the United States, it defines part of the border between the states of Mississippi and Louisiana, and most of the border between Alabama and Florida.
Andrew Ellicott surveyed this parallel in 1797, when it was the border between the United States and Spanish territory. At this latitude the sun is visible for 14 hours, 10 minutes during the summer solstice and 10 hours, 8 minutes during the winter solstice.
22. 35 Parallel North: US it serves as border b/w Tennessee/Mississippi, Tennessee/Alabama, Tennessee/Georgia and North Carolina/Georgia
The 35th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 35 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America and the Atlantic Ocean.
In the United States, the parallel defines the southern border of Tennessee, and the border between North Carolina and Georgia, as well as the southernmost point of Nevada. At this northern latitude, the Sun is visible for 14 hours, 31 minutes on its summer solstice (in June) and for 9 hours, 48 minutes on its winter solstice (in December).
23. 36 Parallel North: In the US it forms the southernmost boundary of the state of Missouri with the state of Arkansas
The 36th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 36 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America and the Atlantic Ocean.
From 7 April 1991 to 31 December 1996, the parallel defined the limit of the northern no-fly zone in Iraq. At this latitude the sun is visible for 14 hours, 36 minutes during the summer solstice and 9 hours, 43 minutes during the winter solstice.
24. 38 Parallel North Line: North & South Korea
The 38th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 38 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean. The 38th parallel north formed the border between North and South Korea prior to the Korean War. At this latitude the sun is visible for 14 hours, 48 minutes during the summer solstice and 9 hours, 32 minutes during the winter solstice.
25. 40 Parallel North: US it serves as border b/w Nebraska & Kansas
The 40th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 40 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean.
At this latitude the sun is visible for 15 hours, 1 minute during the summer solstice and 9 hours, 20 minutes during the winter solstice. On 21 June, the maximum altitude of the sun is 73.83 degrees and 26.17 degrees on 21 December.
26. 41 Parallel North: US it forms the border b/w Wyoming/Utah border, Wyoming/Colorado, Nebraska/Colorado.
The 41st parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 41 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean.
At this latitude the sun is visible for 15 hours, 8 minutes during the summer solstice and 9 hours, 13 minutes during the winter solstice.
27. 42 Parallel North: US it serves as border of New York & Pennsylvania Border
The 42nd parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 42 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean.
At this latitude the sun is visible for 15 hours, 15 minutes during the summer solstice and 9 hours, 7 minutes during the winter solstice. The earth rotation speed at this latitude is roughly equal to the speed of sound.
28. 43 Parallel North: US it serve as border of b/w State Nebraska & state of South Dakota
The 43rd parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 43 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean.
On 21 June the sun is at 70.83 degrees in the sky. At this latitude the sun is visible for 15 hours, 22 minutes during the summer solstice and 9 hours, 0 minutes during the winter solstice.
29. 45 Parallel North: US it forms the boundary b/w Montana & Wyoming
The 45th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 45 degrees north of Earth's equator. It crosses Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean. The 45th parallel north is often called the halfway point between the Equator and the North Pole, but the true halfway point is actually 16.2 km (10.1 mi) north of the 45th parallel because Earth is an oblate spheroid.
At this latitude, the Sun is visible for 15 hours 37 minutes during the summer solstice, and 8 hours 46 minutes during the winter solstice. The midday Sun stands 21.6° above the southern horizon at the December solstice, 68.4° at the June solstice, and exactly 45.0° at either equinox.
30. 49 Parallel North (Medicine Line): USA & Canada
The 49th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 49° north of Earth's equator. It crosses Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean.

shape Quiz

1. Which of the following lines divide India and Pakistan?

    A. McMohan Line B. Durand Line C. Line of Control D. Line of Actual Control E. None of these

Answer : Option C
2. McMohan Line divides India and which country?

    A. Bangladesh B. Myanmar C. Nepal D. China E. None of these

Answer : Option D
3. Which line divides Afghanistan and Pakistan?

    A. Radcliffe Line B. Blue Line C. Purple Line D. Durand Line E. None of these

Answer : Option D
4. Which line divides Isreal & Lebanon?

    A. Green Line B. Mannar haime line C. Blue Line D. Order Neisse Line E. None of these

Answer : Option C
5. Maginot Line divides which two countries?

    A. Libya & Sudan B. Egypt & Sudan C. France & Germany D. Poland & Russia E. None of these

Answer : Option C
6. 49 Parallel North (Medicine Line) divides which two countries?

    A. USA & Canada B. North & South Korea C. Iraq & Iran D. Israel and Syria E. None of these

Answer : Option A
7. Iraq and Iran are divided by which of the following lines?

    A. 17th Parallel Line B. 20 Parallel North C. 31 Parallel North D. 35 Parallel North E. None of these

Answer : Option C
8. Which line divides North and South Korea?

    A. 36 Parallel North B. 38 Parallel North C. 40 Parallel North D. 41 Parallel North E. None of these

Answer : Option B
9. Blue Line divides which two countries?

    A. Isreal & Lebanon B. France & Germany C. Russia & Finland D. Libya & Sudan E. None of these

Answer : Option A
10. Purple Line divides which two countries?

    A. Poland & Russia B. Israel & Syria C. India & China D. Egypt & Sudan E. None of these

Answer : Option B