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Class 4 GK Worksheet: States and Capitals

GK lesson 19: India: states, capitals and rivers · Set 431 · 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.🏞️ Varanasi lies on the banks of which river? (a) Sabarmati (b) Tapi (c) Ganga (d) Narmada
  2. 2.True or false: Thiruvananthapuram is the capital of Kerala. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.Which of these cities lies on the Ganga? (a) Lucknow (b) Mathura (c) Jabalpur (d) Varanasi
  4. 4.Which of these cities lies on the Mahanadi? (a) Guwahati (b) Agra (c) Nashik (d) Cuttack
  5. 5.🏜️ What is the Thar Desert also called? (a) Great Indian Desert (b) Gobi Desert (c) Cold Desert (d) Sahara Desert
  6. 6.What is the capital of Madhya Pradesh? (a) Hyderabad (b) Patna (c) Chennai (d) Bhopal
  7. 7.Which of these cities lies on the Sabarmati? (a) Guwahati (b) Delhi (c) Cuttack (d) Ahmedabad
  8. 8.🧊 The Ganga starts from which glacier? (a) Pindari (b) Zemu (c) Siachen (d) Gangotri
  9. 9.What is the capital of West Bengal? (a) Ranchi (b) Lucknow (c) Aizawl (d) Kolkata
  10. 10.True or false: Kanpur lies on the Narmada. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.What is the capital of Tripura? (a) Chennai (b) Agartala (c) Mumbai (d) Ranchi
  12. 12.🏛️ Gangtok is the capital of which state? (a) Sikkim (b) Rajasthan (c) Mizoram (d) Nagaland
  13. 13.🐪 In which state is most of the Thar Desert? (a) Assam (b) Bihar (c) Kerala (d) Rajasthan
  14. 14.🌊 Which sea lies to the west of India? (a) Black Sea (b) Bay of Bengal (c) Red Sea (d) Arabian Sea
  15. 15.True or false: Nashik lies on the Sabarmati. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.What is the capital of Meghalaya? (a) Kohima (b) Bhopal (c) Ranchi (d) Shillong
  17. 17.🏛️ Kolkata is the capital of which state? (a) Rajasthan (b) Maharashtra (c) West Bengal (d) Goa
  18. 18.True or false: Mathura lies on the Yamuna. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🏞️ Patna lies on the banks of which river? (a) Narmada (b) Ganga (c) Gomti (d) Tapi
  20. 20.📍 Which place is at the southern tip of mainland India? (a) Shimla (b) Darjeeling (c) Kanyakumari (d) Leh
  21. 21.Which of these cities lies on the Brahmaputra? (a) Mathura (b) Dibrugarh (c) Kanpur (d) Patna
  22. 22.What is the capital of Gujarat? (a) Imphal (b) Gandhinagar (c) Thiruvananthapuram (d) Hyderabad
  23. 23.🌊 Which bay lies to the east of India? (a) Arabian Sea (b) Dead Sea (c) Red Sea (d) Bay of Bengal
  24. 24.Which of these cities lies on the Jhelum? (a) Srinagar (b) Kanpur (c) Surat (d) Jabalpur
  25. 25.Which of these cities lies on the Brahmaputra? (a) Guwahati (b) Lucknow (c) Cuttack (d) Srinagar
  26. 26.True or false: Hyderabad is the capital of Telangana. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🏔️ Which mountain range lies in the north of India? (a) the Himalayas (b) the Alps (c) the Rockies (d) the Andes
  28. 28.What is the capital of Nagaland? (a) Mumbai (b) Bhubaneswar (c) Kohima (d) Chennai
  29. 29.🏞️ Surat lies on the banks of which river? (a) Godavari (b) Yamuna (c) Brahmaputra (d) Tapi
  30. 30.What is the capital of Bihar? (a) Gangtok (b) Ranchi (c) Lucknow (d) Patna
  31. 31.🏞️ Which is the longest river of India? (a) Gomti (b) Ganga (c) Tapi (d) Sabarmati
  32. 32.What is the capital of Mizoram? (a) Dispur (b) Hyderabad (c) Jaipur (d) Aizawl
  33. 33.True or false: Bengaluru is the capital of Uttar Pradesh. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Mumbai is the capital of Uttar Pradesh. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🏛️ Ranchi is the capital of which state? (a) Telangana (b) Gujarat (c) Manipur (d) Jharkhand
  36. 36.True or false: Patna lies on the Ganga. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Gandhinagar is the capital of Madhya Pradesh. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🏛️ Itanagar is the capital of which state? (a) Telangana (b) Bihar (c) Nagaland (d) Arunachal Pradesh
  39. 39.🏛️ Thiruvananthapuram is the capital of which state? (a) Kerala (b) Telangana (c) Nagaland (d) Tripura
  40. 40.True or false: Haridwar lies on the Godavari. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Ganga
  2. True
  3. Varanasi
  4. Cuttack
  5. Great Indian Desert
  6. Bhopal
  7. Ahmedabad
  8. Gangotri
  9. Kolkata
  10. False
  11. Agartala
  12. Sikkim
  13. Rajasthan
  14. Arabian Sea
  15. False
  16. Shillong
  17. West Bengal
  18. True
  19. Ganga
  20. Kanyakumari
  21. Dibrugarh
  22. Gandhinagar
  23. Bay of Bengal
  24. Srinagar
  25. Guwahati
  26. True
  27. the Himalayas
  28. Kohima
  29. Tapi
  30. Patna
  31. Ganga
  32. Aizawl
  33. False
  34. False
  35. Jharkhand
  36. True
  37. False
  38. Arunachal Pradesh
  39. Kerala
  40. False

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