_________ is the most natural disaster prone area in the world.

Question

Question

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MPSC State Service Main Examination 2021 - General Studies III Official Paper

Answer 1

The correct answer is Asia-Pacific.

Key Points

Published by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific showed that disaster-induced deaths in the Asia-Pacific region rose more than three-fold between in the past decade, largely due to a handful of extreme disasters.
Among the Asia-Pacific sub-regions, Southeast Asia – predominantly Indonesia and the Philippines – was hardest hit by natural disasters that killed more than 350,000 in more than 500 incidents, according to the report.
During the same period, the number of natural disasters occurring in China alone was more than twice as high as that in the whole North and Central Asia.
The number of recorded deaths from natural disasters went up from 205,388 between 1994 and 2003 to 713,956 between 2004 and 2013, with 1.5 billion people affected, the report said.