Previous Year Question

Normandy is not situated in Germany; it is a geographical region of northern France. Therefore, the Germany–Normendy pair is geographically incorrect at the basic level.

Karaganda is an important mining and industrial region of Kazakhstan. It is particularly famous for its huge coal basin, but iron-bearing mineral deposits also occur in the broader Karaganda region. Therefore, Kazakhstan–Karaganda is treated as correctly matched in the question.

Krivoy Rog, now generally written as Kryvyi Rih, is an extremely important iron-ore producing region of Ukraine. The Kryvyi Rih Iron Ore Basin (Kryvbas) has long served as a major raw-material base for Ukraine's iron and steel industry.

The Pyrenees form a mountain chain along the France–Spain frontier. Some parts of the French Pyrenees have historically been associated with iron-ore mining; hence UPPSC treated France–Pyrenees as correctly matched.