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Class 4 GK Worksheet: States and Capitals

GK lesson 19: India: states, capitals and rivers · Set 24 · 40 questions
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Remember (State, capital, river): Capitals: Maharashtra – Mumbai, Tamil Nadu – Chennai, West Bengal – Kolkata, Karnataka – Bengaluru, Rajasthan – Jaipur, Uttar Pradesh – Lucknow, Bihar – Patna, Assam – Dispur, Kerala – Thiruvananthapuram. Rivers: Varanasi and Patna – Ganga, Agra and Delhi – Yamuna, Guwahati – Brahmaputra, Ahmedabad – Sabarmati, Lucknow – Gomti, Surat – Tapi. The Ganga is India’s longest river; the Arabian Sea is to the west, the Bay of Bengal to the east and the Indian Ocean to the south; Kanyakumari is the southern tip.

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  1. 1.What is the capital of Nagaland? (a) Bhopal (b) Ranchi (c) Kohima (d) Gangtok
  2. 2.Which of these cities lies on the Ganga? (a) Mathura (b) Cuttack (c) Delhi (d) Varanasi
  3. 3.Which of these cities lies on the Yamuna? (a) Guwahati (b) Kanpur (c) Delhi (d) Surat
  4. 4.🏞️ Haridwar lies on the banks of which river? (a) Gomti (b) Tapi (c) Narmada (d) Ganga
  5. 5.🌊 Which ocean lies to the south of India? (a) Atlantic Ocean (b) Indian Ocean (c) Pacific Ocean (d) Arctic Ocean
  6. 6.🏞️ Varanasi lies on the banks of which river? (a) Yamuna (b) Narmada (c) Brahmaputra (d) Ganga
  7. 7.🏛️ Gandhinagar is the capital of which state? (a) West Bengal (b) Bihar (c) Gujarat (d) Manipur
  8. 8.What is the capital of Assam? (a) Agartala (b) Dispur (c) Hyderabad (d) Chennai
  9. 9.🐪 In which state is most of the Thar Desert? (a) Assam (b) Rajasthan (c) Bihar (d) Kerala
  10. 10.What is the capital of Tripura? (a) Ranchi (b) Kolkata (c) Agartala (d) Kohima
  11. 11.True or false: Delhi lies on the Yamuna. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🏜️ What is the Thar Desert also called? (a) Gobi Desert (b) Sahara Desert (c) Cold Desert (d) Great Indian Desert
  13. 13.True or false: Surat lies on the Tapi. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🏛️ Lucknow is the capital of which state? (a) Manipur (b) Uttar Pradesh (c) Karnataka (d) West Bengal
  15. 15.True or false: Mumbai is the capital of Tripura. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.What is the capital of Tamil Nadu? (a) Agartala (b) Chennai (c) Bhopal (d) Gandhinagar
  17. 17.True or false: Guwahati lies on the Sabarmati. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these cities lies on the Ganga? (a) Mathura (b) Delhi (c) Jabalpur (d) Haridwar
  19. 19.What is the capital of Kerala? (a) Mumbai (b) Kolkata (c) Thiruvananthapuram (d) Lucknow
  20. 20.🏛️ Gangtok is the capital of which state? (a) Sikkim (b) Arunachal Pradesh (c) Telangana (d) Jharkhand
  21. 21.🌊 Which sea lies to the west of India? (a) Black Sea (b) Red Sea (c) Bay of Bengal (d) Arabian Sea
  22. 22.🏞️ Cuttack lies on the banks of which river? (a) Godavari (b) Gomti (c) Yamuna (d) Mahanadi
  23. 23.What is the capital of Gujarat? (a) Hyderabad (b) Gandhinagar (c) Imphal (d) Bengaluru
  24. 24.Which of these cities lies on the Sabarmati? (a) Varanasi (b) Surat (c) Patna (d) Ahmedabad
  25. 25.What is the capital of Odisha? (a) Agartala (b) Dispur (c) Chennai (d) Bhubaneswar
  26. 26.True or false: Nashik lies on the Ganga. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Kohima is the capital of Nagaland. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Bhopal is the capital of Arunachal Pradesh. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Panaji is the capital of Maharashtra. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.What is the capital of Manipur? (a) Bhubaneswar (b) Aizawl (c) Imphal (d) Patna
  31. 31.Which of these cities lies on the Jhelum? (a) Dibrugarh (b) Srinagar (c) Haridwar (d) Delhi
  32. 32.True or false: Kolkata is the capital of West Bengal. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Srinagar lies on the Jhelum. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these cities lies on the Yamuna? (a) Surat (b) Jabalpur (c) Agra (d) Dibrugarh
  35. 35.Which of these cities lies on the Godavari? (a) Patna (b) Dibrugarh (c) Nashik (d) Surat
  36. 36.True or false: Jabalpur lies on the Yamuna. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🏞️ Agra lies on the banks of which river? (a) Mahanadi (b) Narmada (c) Yamuna (d) Ganga
  38. 38.True or false: Shillong is the capital of West Bengal. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🏞️ Kanpur lies on the banks of which river? (a) Ganga (b) Sabarmati (c) Gomti (d) Yamuna
  40. 40.🏛️ Jaipur is the capital of which state? (a) Odisha (b) Goa (c) Meghalaya (d) Rajasthan

Answer key

  1. Kohima
  2. Varanasi
  3. Delhi
  4. Ganga
  5. Indian Ocean
  6. Ganga
  7. Gujarat
  8. Dispur
  9. Rajasthan
  10. Agartala
  11. True
  12. Great Indian Desert
  13. True
  14. Uttar Pradesh
  15. False
  16. Chennai
  17. False
  18. Haridwar
  19. Thiruvananthapuram
  20. Sikkim
  21. Arabian Sea
  22. Mahanadi
  23. Gandhinagar
  24. Ahmedabad
  25. Bhubaneswar
  26. False
  27. True
  28. False
  29. False
  30. Imphal
  31. Srinagar
  32. True
  33. True
  34. Agra
  35. Nashik
  36. False
  37. Yamuna
  38. False
  39. Ganga
  40. Rajasthan

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