Answer the following questions in about 30 words.
1. Write the boundary of Sikkim.
2. What is the Tibetan name of Sikkim? What does it mean?
3. Which is the guardian deity of Sikkim? What do you know about it?
4. What are the chief flora and fauna found in Sikkim?
Answers
Answer:
1.Sikkim is bordered by the Tibet Autonomous Region of China to the north and northeast, by Bhutan to the southeast, by the Indian state of West Bengal to the south, and by Nepal to the west. The capital is Gangtok, in the southeastern part of the state
2.Tibetan name for Sikkim, Denjong, means the "valley of rice".
3.The world's third highest mountain, Kanchenjunga, regarded as the guardian deity of Sikkim.
4.The fauna of Sikkim include the snow leopard,[73] musk deer, Himalayan tahr, red panda, Himalayan marmot, Himalayan serow, Himalayan goral, muntjac, common langur, Asian black bear, clouded leopard,[74] marbled cat, leopard cat,[75] dhole, Tibetan wolf, hog badger, binturong, and Himalayan jungle cat. Among the animals more commonly found in the alpine zone are yaks, mainly reared for their milk, meat, and as a beast of burden.
Flora
Sikkim has approximately 5,000 blossoming plants, 515 extraordinary orchids, 60 primula species, 36 rhododendron species, 11 oak varieties, 23 bamboo varieties, 16 conifer species, 362 types of ferns & ferns' allies, 8 tree ferns and more than 424 medicinal plants. The Rhododendron is acclaimed to be the state tree