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Class 4 GK Worksheet: States and Capitals

GK lesson 19: India: states, capitals and rivers · Set 470 · 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 sea lies to the west of India? (a) Red Sea (b) Bay of Bengal (c) Black Sea (d) Arabian Sea
  2. 2.🏞️ Varanasi lies on the banks of which river? (a) Yamuna (b) Jhelum (c) Ganga (d) Mahanadi
  3. 3.What is the capital of Maharashtra? (a) Kohima (b) Lucknow (c) Gandhinagar (d) Mumbai
  4. 4.True or false: Agra lies on the Yamuna. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.Which of these cities lies on the Yamuna? (a) Patna (b) Lucknow (c) Mathura (d) Dibrugarh
  6. 6.Which of these cities lies on the Godavari? (a) Delhi (b) Haridwar (c) Nashik (d) Patna
  7. 7.Which of these cities lies on the Sabarmati? (a) Agra (b) Srinagar (c) Ahmedabad (d) Mathura
  8. 8.True or false: Kolkata is the capital of Meghalaya. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🏔️ Which mountain range lies in the north of India? (a) the Alps (b) the Andes (c) the Himalayas (d) the Rockies
  10. 10.True or false: Bhopal is the capital of Tamil Nadu. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: Varanasi lies on the Mahanadi. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🏛️ Imphal is the capital of which state? (a) Arunachal Pradesh (b) Jharkhand (c) Uttar Pradesh (d) Manipur
  13. 13.True or false: Guwahati lies on the Brahmaputra. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: Gangtok is the capital of Sikkim. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.What is the capital of Madhya Pradesh? (a) Bhopal (b) Lucknow (c) Imphal (d) Bengaluru
  16. 16.Which of these cities lies on the Yamuna? (a) Nashik (b) Lucknow (c) Patna (d) Agra
  17. 17.🏛️ Bhopal is the capital of which state? (a) Arunachal Pradesh (b) Karnataka (c) Odisha (d) Madhya Pradesh
  18. 18.🏞️ Srinagar lies on the banks of which river? (a) Godavari (b) Jhelum (c) Brahmaputra (d) Mahanadi
  19. 19.Which of these cities lies on the Brahmaputra? (a) Jabalpur (b) Cuttack (c) Srinagar (d) Dibrugarh
  20. 20.🏛️ Gandhinagar is the capital of which state? (a) Jharkhand (b) Nagaland (c) Goa (d) Gujarat
  21. 21.What is the capital of Telangana? (a) Ranchi (b) Hyderabad (c) Chennai (d) Bhubaneswar
  22. 22.What is the capital of Meghalaya? (a) Agartala (b) Shillong (c) Aizawl (d) Lucknow
  23. 23.True or false: Lucknow is the capital of Karnataka. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these cities lies on the Narmada? (a) Guwahati (b) Patna (c) Jabalpur (d) Agra
  25. 25.🏛️ Bengaluru is the capital of which state? (a) Karnataka (b) Madhya Pradesh (c) Tripura (d) Arunachal Pradesh
  26. 26.🏞️ Dibrugarh lies on the banks of which river? (a) Narmada (b) Mahanadi (c) Brahmaputra (d) Ganga
  27. 27.Which of these cities lies on the Jhelum? (a) Kanpur (b) Srinagar (c) Jabalpur (d) Varanasi
  28. 28.🏞️ Which is the longest river of India? (a) Tapi (b) Gomti (c) Ganga (d) Sabarmati
  29. 29.🏞️ Delhi lies on the banks of which river? (a) Gomti (b) Yamuna (c) Brahmaputra (d) Jhelum
  30. 30.True or false: Dispur is the capital of Tripura. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Lucknow lies on the Gomti. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these cities lies on the Gomti? (a) Delhi (b) Lucknow (c) Srinagar (d) Ahmedabad
  33. 33.🏛️ Thiruvananthapuram is the capital of which state? (a) Meghalaya (b) Tamil Nadu (c) Kerala (d) Odisha
  34. 34.🏛️ Dispur is the capital of which state? (a) Assam (b) Nagaland (c) Karnataka (d) Manipur
  35. 35.🏛️ Lucknow is the capital of which state? (a) Gujarat (b) Telangana (c) Uttar Pradesh (d) Assam
  36. 36.🧊 The Ganga starts from which glacier? (a) Pindari (b) Gangotri (c) Zemu (d) Siachen
  37. 37.🏛️ Panaji is the capital of which state? (a) Sikkim (b) Uttar Pradesh (c) Goa (d) Gujarat
  38. 38.🗺️ Which is the smallest state of India by area? (a) Rajasthan (b) Uttar Pradesh (c) Maharashtra (d) Goa
  39. 39.🏛️ Bhubaneswar is the capital of which state? (a) Mizoram (b) Maharashtra (c) Telangana (d) Odisha
  40. 40.🏞️ Haridwar lies on the banks of which river? (a) Godavari (b) Jhelum (c) Ganga (d) Narmada

Answer key

  1. Arabian Sea
  2. Ganga
  3. Mumbai
  4. True
  5. Mathura
  6. Nashik
  7. Ahmedabad
  8. False
  9. the Himalayas
  10. False
  11. False
  12. Manipur
  13. True
  14. True
  15. Bhopal
  16. Agra
  17. Madhya Pradesh
  18. Jhelum
  19. Dibrugarh
  20. Gujarat
  21. Hyderabad
  22. Shillong
  23. False
  24. Jabalpur
  25. Karnataka
  26. Brahmaputra
  27. Srinagar
  28. Ganga
  29. Yamuna
  30. False
  31. True
  32. Lucknow
  33. Kerala
  34. Assam
  35. Uttar Pradesh
  36. Gangotri
  37. Goa
  38. Goa
  39. Odisha
  40. Ganga

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