Which of the following human races inhabitates in China, Mangolia and Japan ?
Mongoloid
The population of China, Mongolia and Japan belongs to the Mongoloid group — option 3, and the name itself derives from Mongolia.
The classification being used. Nineteenth and early twentieth century anthropology divided humanity into broad “racial” groups on the basis of visible physical traits — skin colour, hair form, the shape of the eye fold, the nasal index and the cephalic index. That scheme still appears in geography syllabuses, and it is what this question tests, though modern genetics has shown that human variation is continuous and that these categories have no biological foundation.
| Group | Distinguishing features | Where found |
|---|---|---|
| Australoid | Dark skin, wavy to curly hair, broad nose, heavy brow ridges | Aboriginal Australia, parts of Melanesia, tribal populations of southern India |
| Negroid | Dark skin, tightly curled hair, broad nose, everted lips | Sub-Saharan Africa and the African diaspora |
| Mongoloid | Yellowish to light brown skin, straight black hair, epicanthic eye fold, flat face and high cheekbones | China, Mongolia, Japan, Korea, Siberia; also Native Americans and the Eskimos |
| Nordic (a Caucasoid sub-type) | Fair skin, blond hair, blue eyes, tall and long-headed | Scandinavia and north-western Europe |
Working it out. The epicanthic fold, the fold of skin covering the inner corner of the eye, is the trait most often cited for this group, and the group takes its very name from Mongolia — so the country list in the question points directly to it. Nordic peoples belong to northern Europe, Negroid to Africa, and Australoid to Australia and the Pacific, none of which matches China, Mongolia and Japan.
The Indian connection. Populations of Mongoloid stock are found in India too, in the north-eastern states and along the Himalayan belt of Ladakh, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh, reflecting migration across the eastern Himalaya.
Hence, the answer is Mongoloid.
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