Some Mnemonics

Source : Internet
This may be helpful for Prelims

1) There are 17 countries, 3 continents and 6 water bodies lies on Tropic of

Cancer passes.

North America
Mexico, Bahamas (Archipelago)

Africa
Niger, Algeria, Mauritania, Egypt, Western Sahara, Mali, Libya (NAME WML)

Asia
Myanmar, Oman, Bangladesh, India, Saudi Arabia, China, United Arab
Emirates, Taiwan (MOB IS CUTe)

2) Mnemonic for 13 countries from which Equator passes :

KIM SUCKS Gabon's BraCE :
Here KIM is from South East Asia. SUCKS Gabon is from Africa and Brace is
from South America.

So, it's a good mnemonic to segregate countries of different continents through

which equator passes.

K- Kiribati, I- Indonesia M- Maldives, S- Somalia, U- Uganda, C- Republic of

Congo & Democratic Republic of Congo (These are 2 different Congos. Please
pay attention) K- Kenya, S- Sao Tome & Principle ,Gabon, Bra- Brazil,
C- Colombia, E- Ecuador

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3) Tropic of Capricorn : ABCP MMSBN A
(A– Argentina, B– Brazil, C– Chile, P– Paraguay) (M– Madagascar,
M– Mozambique, S- South Africa, B- Botswana, N- Namibia) (A-Australia)

4) BaCHPaN -
To remember length of boundary India shares in decreasing order-Bangladesh,
China, Pakistan, Nepal.

5) SEED : Countries collectively called as Horn of Africa

S- Somalia, E- Ethiopia, E- Eritrea, D- Djibouti

6) UN always faces the challenges of world. hence they are FACERS

F – French, A-Arabic, C-Chinese, E-English, R-Russian, S-Spanish. Languages
used in UN

7) JUMBTAK : States With Bicameral System

J – J&K, U – U.P.; M – MH; B – Bihar; T- Telangana A – Andhra Pradesh;
K– Karnataka

8) Countries Surrounding Baltic Sea :

RuDe Germany SELL Poland & Finland

(Ru– Russia, De- Denmark, Germany. S-Sweden, E-Estonia, L- Latvia,

Lithuania, Poland and Finland)

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9) Countries Surrounding Mediterranean Sea :

LET ME introduce African Angel SILC (silk) who studied in Asia & born to
her mother BAGMaTI who was MiSS Europe in Mid Fifteenth Century.

(Africa : L- Libya, E- Egypt, T-Tunisia, M- Morocco, Angel-Algeria,

Asia – Syria, Israel, Lebanon, Cyprus

Europe- Bosnia, Albania, Greece, Montenegro, turkey, Italy, Malta, Slovenia,

Spain, Monaco, France, Croatia)

10) Countries Around Caspian Sea:

RITU is so KAAZual

(R- Russia, I- Iran, TU- Turkmenistan, KA- Kazakhstan, AZ- Azerbaijan)

11) Countries Around Black Sea: GURR BUT

G- Georgia, U- Ukraine, R- Russia, R- Romania, Bu- Bulgaria, T- Turkey

10) Countries Around Caspian Sea:

RITU is so KAAZual

(R- Russia, I- Iran, TU- Turkmenistan, KA- Kazakhstan, AZ- Azerbaijan)

12) DESSEY : Countries bordering Red Sea :

D- Djibouti, E- Eritrea, S- Saudi Arabia, S- Sudan (not Somalia: pay attention
and keep rem), E- Egypt, Y- Yemen

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13) Countries through which Prime Meridian Passes
Prime TV MeriDiana

ToNi and SUMAL are Best Friends in Ghana.

(Prime – Prime , Meridiana – Meridian, To-Togo, Ni-Niger, S-Spain, U- U.K.,

M-Mali , AL-Algeria, B –Burkina Faso, F – France, Ghana)

14) Tropic of Cancer passes through 8 States-MiRa's JCB at GMT

(Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Jharkhand,
Tripura and Mizoram.)

15) SAARC : MBBS PAIN

(Maldives, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghan., India, Nepal)

16) ASEAN : TV CLIP MMS-B

(Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia,
Myanmar, Singapore, Brunei)

17) G-7 Members : GUrUJI Chale France

(Germany, U.K., U.S., Japan, Italy, Canada, France)

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18) SCO : TRUCKK
(Tajikistan, Russia, Uzbekistan, china, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan )

19) G-5 : BRICS [Russia (–) Mexico (+)]

20) G-20 : GURU JI SITA AB SSC FCI ME kaam karti hain

(G- Germany, U- USA, R- Russia, U- U.K, J- Japan, I- India, S- Saudi Arabia,
I- Indonesia, T- Turkey, A- Australia, A- Argentina, B- Brazil, S- South Korea,
S- South Africa, C- Canada, F- France, C- China, I- Italy, M- Mexico, E-
European union)

21) Mnemonic for 16 RCEP countries :

10 ASEAN + 6 OTHERS
Mnemonic for ASEAN has already been shared earlier : TV CLIP MMS-B

Mnemonic for 6 Others :- JANSIC

(J- Japan, A- Australia, N- New Zealand, S- South Korea, I- India, C- China)

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