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Class 4 GK Worksheet: States and Capitals

GK lesson 19: India: states, capitals and rivers · Set 372 · 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.📍 Which place is at the southern tip of mainland India? (a) Leh (b) Shimla (c) Darjeeling (d) Kanyakumari
  2. 2.🏞️ Which is the longest river of India? (a) Ganga (b) Sabarmati (c) Tapi (d) Gomti
  3. 3.🏞️ Agra lies on the banks of which river? (a) Sabarmati (b) Mahanadi (c) Yamuna (d) Gomti
  4. 4.🏛️ Dispur is the capital of which state? (a) Nagaland (b) Assam (c) Mizoram (d) Meghalaya
  5. 5.What is the capital of Jharkhand? (a) Ranchi (b) Patna (c) Hyderabad (d) Bhubaneswar
  6. 6.True or false: Nashik lies on the Godavari. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: Jabalpur lies on the Narmada. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.Which of these cities lies on the Brahmaputra? (a) Nashik (b) Patna (c) Guwahati (d) Haridwar
  9. 9.🏞️ Patna lies on the banks of which river? (a) Narmada (b) Ganga (c) Tapi (d) Jhelum
  10. 10.🗺️ Which is the largest state of India by area? (a) Sikkim (b) Goa (c) Rajasthan (d) Kerala
  11. 11.🏞️ Guwahati lies on the banks of which river? (a) Tapi (b) Yamuna (c) Brahmaputra (d) Narmada
  12. 12.True or false: Dibrugarh lies on the Brahmaputra. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: Lucknow lies on the Gomti. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these cities lies on the Yamuna? (a) Kanpur (b) Ahmedabad (c) Dibrugarh (d) Agra
  15. 15.What is the capital of Gujarat? (a) Lucknow (b) Itanagar (c) Patna (d) Gandhinagar
  16. 16.🏛️ Thiruvananthapuram is the capital of which state? (a) Kerala (b) Assam (c) Uttar Pradesh (d) Maharashtra
  17. 17.🏛️ Aizawl is the capital of which state? (a) Mizoram (b) West Bengal (c) Odisha (d) Meghalaya
  18. 18.Which of these cities lies on the Godavari? (a) Haridwar (b) Kanpur (c) Nashik (d) Lucknow
  19. 19.True or false: Gandhinagar is the capital of Nagaland. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.What is the capital of Nagaland? (a) Panaji (b) Kohima (c) Jaipur (d) Agartala
  21. 21.Which of these cities lies on the Yamuna? (a) Cuttack (b) Surat (c) Delhi (d) Varanasi
  22. 22.True or false: Delhi lies on the Ganga. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these cities lies on the Gomti? (a) Srinagar (b) Lucknow (c) Kanpur (d) Jabalpur
  24. 24.🐪 In which state is most of the Thar Desert? (a) Kerala (b) Rajasthan (c) Assam (d) Bihar
  25. 25.🧊 The Ganga starts from which glacier? (a) Zemu (b) Gangotri (c) Siachen (d) Pindari
  26. 26.🏛️ Chennai is the capital of which state? (a) Mizoram (b) Karnataka (c) Goa (d) Tamil Nadu
  27. 27.Which of these cities lies on the Tapi? (a) Kanpur (b) Surat (c) Varanasi (d) Mathura
  28. 28.True or false: Bengaluru is the capital of Jharkhand. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🌊 Which ocean lies to the south of India? (a) Pacific Ocean (b) Indian Ocean (c) Arctic Ocean (d) Atlantic Ocean
  30. 30.True or false: Ranchi is the capital of West Bengal. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Ranchi is the capital of Jharkhand. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.What is the capital of Karnataka? (a) Shillong (b) Bengaluru (c) Kohima (d) Lucknow
  33. 33.What is the capital of West Bengal? (a) Jaipur (b) Kolkata (c) Bhopal (d) Dispur
  34. 34.🏞️ Varanasi lies on the banks of which river? (a) Gomti (b) Mahanadi (c) Jhelum (d) Ganga
  35. 35.True or false: Gandhinagar is the capital of Gujarat. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🌊 Which bay lies to the east of India? (a) Arabian Sea (b) Dead Sea (c) Red Sea (d) Bay of Bengal
  37. 37.🏔️ Which mountain range lies in the north of India? (a) the Rockies (b) the Alps (c) the Himalayas (d) the Andes
  38. 38.🏛️ Shillong is the capital of which state? (a) Arunachal Pradesh (b) Kerala (c) Meghalaya (d) Telangana
  39. 39.🏜️ What is the Thar Desert also called? (a) Cold Desert (b) Great Indian Desert (c) Gobi Desert (d) Sahara Desert
  40. 40.Which of these cities lies on the Ganga? (a) Ahmedabad (b) Haridwar (c) Guwahati (d) Agra

Answer key

  1. Kanyakumari
  2. Ganga
  3. Yamuna
  4. Assam
  5. Ranchi
  6. True
  7. True
  8. Guwahati
  9. Ganga
  10. Rajasthan
  11. Brahmaputra
  12. True
  13. True
  14. Agra
  15. Gandhinagar
  16. Kerala
  17. Mizoram
  18. Nashik
  19. False
  20. Kohima
  21. Delhi
  22. False
  23. Lucknow
  24. Rajasthan
  25. Gangotri
  26. Tamil Nadu
  27. Surat
  28. False
  29. Indian Ocean
  30. False
  31. True
  32. Bengaluru
  33. Kolkata
  34. Ganga
  35. True
  36. Bay of Bengal
  37. the Himalayas
  38. Meghalaya
  39. Great Indian Desert
  40. Haridwar

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