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Class 4 GK Worksheet: States and Capitals

GK lesson 19: India: states, capitals and rivers · Set 244 · 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.🏛️ Dispur is the capital of which state? (a) Madhya Pradesh (b) Goa (c) Manipur (d) Assam
  2. 2.Which of these cities lies on the Yamuna? (a) Patna (b) Delhi (c) Kanpur (d) Jabalpur
  3. 3.True or false: Mathura lies on the Godavari. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.Which of these cities lies on the Jhelum? (a) Mathura (b) Srinagar (c) Dibrugarh (d) Lucknow
  5. 5.🏛️ Agartala is the capital of which state? (a) Meghalaya (b) Rajasthan (c) Tripura (d) West Bengal
  6. 6.🏞️ Agra lies on the banks of which river? (a) Mahanadi (b) Brahmaputra (c) Tapi (d) Yamuna
  7. 7.What is the capital of Meghalaya? (a) Hyderabad (b) Bengaluru (c) Jaipur (d) Shillong
  8. 8.🏛️ Kolkata is the capital of which state? (a) West Bengal (b) Rajasthan (c) Telangana (d) Meghalaya
  9. 9.Which of these cities lies on the Tapi? (a) Surat (b) Agra (c) Jabalpur (d) Guwahati
  10. 10.🏛️ Thiruvananthapuram is the capital of which state? (a) Kerala (b) Meghalaya (c) Arunachal Pradesh (d) Maharashtra
  11. 11.🏛️ Jaipur is the capital of which state? (a) Rajasthan (b) Jharkhand (c) Kerala (d) Telangana
  12. 12.True or false: Haridwar lies on the Tapi. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🌊 Which bay lies to the east of India? (a) Red Sea (b) Dead Sea (c) Bay of Bengal (d) Arabian Sea
  14. 14.Which of these cities lies on the Gomti? (a) Nashik (b) Delhi (c) Lucknow (d) Kanpur
  15. 15.🏞️ Haridwar lies on the banks of which river? (a) Mahanadi (b) Godavari (c) Sabarmati (d) Ganga
  16. 16.True or false: Chennai is the capital of Sikkim. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.What is the capital of Mizoram? (a) Dispur (b) Bhopal (c) Aizawl (d) Mumbai
  18. 18.🏛️ Kohima is the capital of which state? (a) Kerala (b) Nagaland (c) Telangana (d) Maharashtra
  19. 19.What is the capital of Telangana? (a) Agartala (b) Itanagar (c) Thiruvananthapuram (d) Hyderabad
  20. 20.🏞️ Which is the longest river of India? (a) Sabarmati (b) Tapi (c) Gomti (d) Ganga
  21. 21.True or false: Jabalpur lies on the Narmada. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.What is the capital of Gujarat? (a) Kolkata (b) Gandhinagar (c) Patna (d) Ranchi
  23. 23.True or false: Imphal is the capital of Karnataka. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: Ahmedabad lies on the Sabarmati. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🏜️ What is the Thar Desert also called? (a) Gobi Desert (b) Cold Desert (c) Great Indian Desert (d) Sahara Desert
  26. 26.True or false: Gangtok is the capital of Sikkim. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Cuttack lies on the Yamuna. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🏛️ Aizawl is the capital of which state? (a) Odisha (b) Rajasthan (c) Mizoram (d) Tripura
  29. 29.🏞️ Mathura lies on the banks of which river? (a) Yamuna (b) Tapi (c) Brahmaputra (d) Narmada
  30. 30.Which of these cities lies on the Narmada? (a) Jabalpur (b) Nashik (c) Kanpur (d) Haridwar
  31. 31.What is the capital of Rajasthan? (a) Gandhinagar (b) Jaipur (c) Panaji (d) Gangtok
  32. 32.True or false: Ranchi is the capital of Maharashtra. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.What is the capital of Odisha? (a) Bengaluru (b) Bhubaneswar (c) Aizawl (d) Jaipur
  34. 34.🏞️ Dibrugarh lies on the banks of which river? (a) Sabarmati (b) Yamuna (c) Brahmaputra (d) Mahanadi
  35. 35.🏛️ Shillong is the capital of which state? (a) Bihar (b) Meghalaya (c) Uttar Pradesh (d) Tripura
  36. 36.True or false: Lucknow lies on the Gomti. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.What is the capital of Goa? (a) Bhubaneswar (b) Panaji (c) Gandhinagar (d) Kolkata
  38. 38.True or false: Patna lies on the Sabarmati. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🐪 In which state is most of the Thar Desert? (a) Assam (b) Kerala (c) Bihar (d) Rajasthan
  40. 40.True or false: Kolkata is the capital of Odisha. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Assam
  2. Delhi
  3. False
  4. Srinagar
  5. Tripura
  6. Yamuna
  7. Shillong
  8. West Bengal
  9. Surat
  10. Kerala
  11. Rajasthan
  12. False
  13. Bay of Bengal
  14. Lucknow
  15. Ganga
  16. False
  17. Aizawl
  18. Nagaland
  19. Hyderabad
  20. Ganga
  21. True
  22. Gandhinagar
  23. False
  24. True
  25. Great Indian Desert
  26. True
  27. False
  28. Mizoram
  29. Yamuna
  30. Jabalpur
  31. Jaipur
  32. False
  33. Bhubaneswar
  34. Brahmaputra
  35. Meghalaya
  36. True
  37. Panaji
  38. False
  39. Rajasthan
  40. False

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