Consider the following pairs: Famous place Region 1. Bodhgaya

Consider the following pairs:

Famous placeRegion
1. BodhgayaBaghelkhand
2. KhajurahoBundelkhand
3. ShirdiVidarbha
4. Nasik (Nashik)Malwa
5. TirupatiRayalaseema

Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

1, 2 and 4
2, 3, 4 and 5
2 and 5 only
1, 3, 4 and 5
This question was previously asked in
UPSC IAS – 2016
Pairs 2 and 5 are correctly matched. Khajuraho is in the Bundelkhand region, and Tirupati is in the Rayalaseema region.
Khajuraho is located in the Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh, which falls within the Bundelkhand region, famous for its medieval Hindu and Jain temples. Tirupati is located in the Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh, part of the Rayalaseema region, known for the Sri Venkateswara Temple.
Pair 1: Bodh Gaya is located in Bihar, not Baghelkhand (which is in MP/UP).
Pair 3: Shirdi is located in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, in the Desh region (also called Paschim Maharashtra), not Vidarbha (eastern Maharashtra).
Pair 4: Nashik is located in Maharashtra, in the Nashik division, also considered part of Desh or Khandesh regions. Malwa is a plateau region in west-central India, primarily in Madhya Pradesh and parts of Rajasthan and Gujarat.