Useful General Knowledge Notes

[marwatone]

I AM PREPARING FOR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE PAPER AND I WAS LOOKING FOR ALL THIS STUFF, SO I THINK IT WILL BE HELPFUL FOR ALL OF YOU. IF THERE IS ANY MISTAKE, THEN PLEASE TELL ME.


PAKISTAN:
PRESIDENT:Pervez Musharraf
PRIME MINISTER:Shaukat Aziz
GOVERMENT:Semi-presidential republic
CAPITAL:Islamabad
CURRENCY:Rupee (Rs.)
LARGEST CITY:Karachi

INDIA:
PRESIDENT:Pratibha Patil
PRIME MINISTER:Manmohan Singh
GOVERNMENT:Federal republic
CAPITAL:New Delhi
CURRENCY:Indian Rupee (₨)
LARGEST CITY:Mumbai

UNITED STATES:
PRESIDENT:George W. Bush
VICE PRESIDENT: Dick Cheney
CAPITAL:Washington, D.C.
GOVERNMENT:Federal constitutional republic
CURRENCY:United States dollar ($) (USD)
LARGEST CITY:New York City

IRAN:
PRESIDENT:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
SUPREME LEADER:Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
GOVERNMENT:Islamic Republic
CAPITAL:Tehran
CURRENCY:Iranian rial
LARGEST CITY:Tehran

IRAQ:
PRESIDENT:Jalal Talabani
PRIME MINISTER:Nouri al-Maliki
GOVERNMENT: DEVELOPING parliamentary democracy
CAPITAL:Baghdad
CURRENCY:Iraqi dinar
LARGEST CITY:Baghdad

FRANCE:
PRESIDENT:Nicolas Sarkozy
PRIME MINISTER:François Fillon
GOVERNMENT:Semi-presidential unitary republic
CAPITAL:Paris
CURRENCY:Euro
LARGEST CITY:Paris

GERMANY:
PRESIDENT:Horst Köhler
CHANCELLOR:Angela Merkel
GOVERNMENT:Parliamentary Federal Republic
CAPITAL:Berlin
CURRENCY:Euro
LARGEST CITY:Berlin

UNITED KINGDOM(BRITISH):
MONARCH: Queen Elizabeth II
PRIME MINISTER:Gordon Brown
GOVERNMENT:Constitutional monarchy
CAPITAL:London
CURRENCY:Pound sterling
LARGEST CITY:London

AFGHANISTAN:
PRESIDENT:Hamid Karzai
VICE PRESIDENT:Ahmad Zia Massoud
VICE PRESIDENT:Karim Khalili
GOVERNMENT:Islamic republic
CAPITAL:Kabul
CURRENCY:Afghanistani afghani
LARGEST CITY:Kabul

EGYPT:
PRESIDENT:Hosni Mubarak
PRIME MINISTER:Ahmed Nazif
GOVERNMENT:Semi-presidential republic
CAPITAL:Cairo
CURRENCY:Egyptian pound
LARGEST CITY:Cairo


LIBYA:
Leader and Guide of the Revolution:Muammar al-Gaddafi
HEAD OF STATE:Zenati Muhammad az-Zenati
PRIME MINISTER:Baghdadi Mahmudi
GOVERNMENT:Jamahiriya
CAPITAL:Tripoli
CURRENCY: Dinar
LARGEST CITY:Tripoli

SYRIA:
PRESIDENT:Bashar al-Assad
PRIME MINISTER:Muhammad Naji Etri
GOVERNMENT:Presidential republic
CAPITAL: Damascus
CURRENCY:Syrian pound
LARGEST CITY:Damascus

TURKEY:
PRESIDENT:Abdullah Gül
PRIME MINISTER:Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
GOVERNMENT:Parliamentary republic
CAPITAL:Ankara
CURRENCY:New Turkish Lira
LARGEST CITY:Istanbul

GREECE:
PRESIDENT:Karolos Papoulias
PRIME MINISTER:Kostas Karamanlis
GOVERNMENT:Parliamentary republic
CAPITAL:Athens
CURRENCY:Euro
LARGEST CITY:Athens

CHINA:
PRESIDENT:Hu Jintao
PREMIER:Wen Jiabao
GOVERNMENT:Socialist Republic
CAPITAL:Beijing
CURRENCY:Yuan
LARGEST CITY:Shanghai

JAPAN:
EMPEROR:Akihito
PRIME MINISTER:Yasuo Fukuda
GOVERNMENT:Constitutional monarchy
CAPITAL:Tokyo
CURRENCY:Yen
LARGEST CITY:Tokyo

RUSSIA:
PRESIDENT:Vladimir Putin
PRIME MINISTER:Viktor Zubkov
GOVERNMENT:Semi-presidential federal republic
CAPITAL:Moscow
CURRENCY:Ruble
LARGEST CITY:Moscow

CANADA:
MONARCH:Queen Elizabeth II
PRIME MINISTER:Stephen Harper
GOVERNMENT:Parliamentary democracy (federal constitutional monarchy)
CAPITAL:Ottawa
CURRENCY:Canadian dollar
LARGEST CITY:Toronto

GEORGIA:
PRESIDENT:Mikheil Saakashvili
PRIME MINISTER:Zurab Noghaideli
GOVERNMENT:Semi-presidential unitary republic
CAPITAL:Tbilisi
CURRENCY:Lari
LARGEST CITY:Tbilisi

SWEDEN:
KING:Carl XVI Gustaf
PRIME MINISTER:Fredrik Reinfeldt
GOVERNMENT:Constitutional monarchy
CAPITAL:Stockholm
CURRENCY:Swedish krona
LARGEST CITY:Stockholm

SRI LANKA:
PRESIDENT: Mahinda Rajapaksa
PRIME MINISTER: Ratnasiri Wickremanayake
GOVERNMENT: Democratic Socialist Republic
CAPITAL: Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte
CURRENCY: Sri Lankan rupee
LARGEST CITY:Colombo

AUSTRALIA:
MONARCH:Queen Elizabeth II
PRIME MINISTER:John Howard
GOVERNMENT:Parliamentary democracy (federal constitutional monarchy)
CAPITAL:Canberra
CURRENCY:Australian dollar
LARGEST CITY:Sydney

SAUDI ARABIA:
KING:Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz
CROWN PRINCE:Sultan bin Abdul Aziz
GOVERNMENT:Absolute monarchy
CAPITAL:Riyadh
CURRENCY:Riyal
LARGEST CITY:Riyadh

BANGLADESH:
PRESIDENT:Iajuddin Ahmed
PRIME MINISTER: VACANT
GOVERNMENT:Parliamentary republic
CAPITAL: Dhaka
CURRENCY:Taka
LARGEST CITY:Dhaka

QATAR:
EMIR:Hamad bin Khalifa
PRIME MINISTER:Hamad ibn Jaber Al Thani
GOVERNMENT:Constitutional Monarchy
CAPITAL: Doha
CURRENCY:Riyal
LARGEST CITY:Doha

NEPAL:
KING:Gyanendra
PRIME MINISTER:Girija Prasad Koirala
GOVERNMENT:Interim government
CAPITAL:Kathmandu
CURRENCY:Rupee
LARGEST CITY:Kathmandu

SWITZERLAND:
GOVERNMENT: Direct democracy Federal republic
FEDRAL COUNCIL:M. Leuenberger
P. Couchepin
S. Schmid
M. Calmy-Rey
C. Blocher
H.-R. Merz
D. Leuthard
CAPITAL:Berne
CURRENCY:Swiss franc
LARGEST CITY:Zürich

ITALY:
PRESIDENT:Giorgio Napolitano
PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS: Romano Prodi
GOVERNMENT:Parliamentary republic
CAPITAL:Rome
CURRENCY:Euro
LARGEST CITY:Rome

AUSTRIA:
PRESIDENT:Heinz Fischer
CHANCELLOR:Alfred Gusenbauer
GOVERNMENT:Federal republic
CAPITAL:Vienna
CURRENCY:euro
LARGEST CITY:Vienna

DENMARK:
MONARCH:Margrethe II
PRIME MINISTER:Anders Fogh Rasmussen
GOVERNMENT:Constitutional monarchy
CAPITAL:Copenhagen
CURRENCY: Danish krone
LARGEST CITY:Copenhagen

ETHIOPIA:
PRESIDENT:Girma Wolde-Giorgis
PRIME MINISTER:Meles Zenawi
GOVERNMENT:Federal republic
CAPITAL:Addis Ababa
CURRENCY:Birr
LARGEST CITY:Addis Ababa

NEW ZEALAND:
HEAD OF STATE: Queen Elizabeth II
PRIME MINISTRE:Helen Clark
GOVERNMENT:Parliamentary democracy (constitutional monarchy)
CAPITAL:Wellington
CURRENCY:New Zealand dollar
LARGEST CITY:Auckland

MALAYSIA:
Yang di-Pertuan Agong(MEANS SUPREME RULER):Mizan Zainal Abidin
PRIME MINISTER:Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
GOVERNMENT:Federal constitutional monarchy
CAPITAL:Kuala Lumpur
CURRENCY: Ringgit
LARGEST CITY:Kuala Lumpur

INDONESIA:
PRESIDENT:Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
VICE PRESIDENT:Muhammad Jusuf Kalla
GOVERNMENT:Presidential Republic
CAPITAL:Jakarta
CURRENCY:Rupiah
LARGEST CITY:Jakarta
Indonesia is the most populous Muslim-majority nation, although officially it is not an Islamic state.

[mubasharsidra]

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[Aarwaa]

@ mubasharsidra

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[marwatone]

@ Mubasharsidra

Well I Don't Use Any Book For General Knowledge. I Read Newspapers Daily, Watch News On T.v And Other Stuff At Internet For Example Wikipedia Etc. I Don't Think That There Is Any Specific Book For General Knowledge But Reading Can Increase Your Knowledge Doesn't Matter What Type Of Book It Is. Just Read, Read And Read.