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Class 4 GK Worksheet: States and Capitals

GK lesson 19: India: states, capitals and rivers · Set 556 · 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.True or false: Ahmedabad lies on the Sabarmati. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.Which of these cities lies on the Jhelum? (a) Kanpur (b) Srinagar (c) Ahmedabad (d) Haridwar
  3. 3.Which of these cities lies on the Mahanadi? (a) Haridwar (b) Cuttack (c) Surat (d) Varanasi
  4. 4.🏞️ Surat lies on the banks of which river? (a) Tapi (b) Gomti (c) Mahanadi (d) Jhelum
  5. 5.🏞️ Which is the longest river of India? (a) Gomti (b) Ganga (c) Tapi (d) Sabarmati
  6. 6.Which of these cities lies on the Tapi? (a) Haridwar (b) Surat (c) Jabalpur (d) Ahmedabad
  7. 7.🏞️ Haridwar lies on the banks of which river? (a) Godavari (b) Mahanadi (c) Tapi (d) Ganga
  8. 8.🏛️ Agartala is the capital of which state? (a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Madhya Pradesh (c) Jharkhand (d) Tripura
  9. 9.What is the capital of Assam? (a) Lucknow (b) Bhopal (c) Agartala (d) Dispur
  10. 10.Which of these cities lies on the Sabarmati? (a) Jabalpur (b) Cuttack (c) Ahmedabad (d) Srinagar
  11. 11.🏛️ Itanagar is the capital of which state? (a) Goa (b) Arunachal Pradesh (c) Meghalaya (d) Jharkhand
  12. 12.True or false: Kolkata is the capital of West Bengal. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: Panaji is the capital of Goa. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🗺️ Which is the smallest state of India by area? (a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Goa (c) Maharashtra (d) Rajasthan
  15. 15.🗺️ Which is the largest state of India by area? (a) Goa (b) Sikkim (c) Kerala (d) Rajasthan
  16. 16.True or false: Itanagar is the capital of Arunachal Pradesh. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.Which of these cities lies on the Narmada? (a) Jabalpur (b) Delhi (c) Agra (d) Surat
  18. 18.🏞️ Varanasi lies on the banks of which river? (a) Narmada (b) Jhelum (c) Ganga (d) Gomti
  19. 19.What is the capital of Arunachal Pradesh? (a) Itanagar (b) Jaipur (c) Patna (d) Kohima
  20. 20.True or false: Varanasi lies on the Yamuna. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.What is the capital of Tripura? (a) Agartala (b) Shillong (c) Lucknow (d) Bengaluru
  22. 22.🐪 In which state is most of the Thar Desert? (a) Bihar (b) Rajasthan (c) Assam (d) Kerala
  23. 23.📍 Which place is at the southern tip of mainland India? (a) Leh (b) Darjeeling (c) Shimla (d) Kanyakumari
  24. 24.What is the capital of Madhya Pradesh? (a) Bhopal (b) Patna (c) Gandhinagar (d) Bengaluru
  25. 25.🏛️ Chennai is the capital of which state? (a) Tamil Nadu (b) West Bengal (c) Mizoram (d) Karnataka
  26. 26.🏜️ What is the Thar Desert also called? (a) Great Indian Desert (b) Sahara Desert (c) Cold Desert (d) Gobi Desert
  27. 27.What is the capital of Mizoram? (a) Aizawl (b) Itanagar (c) Ranchi (d) Agartala
  28. 28.What is the capital of Kerala? (a) Bengaluru (b) Patna (c) Thiruvananthapuram (d) Chennai
  29. 29.Which of these cities lies on the Yamuna? (a) Surat (b) Kanpur (c) Agra (d) Guwahati
  30. 30.What is the capital of Telangana? (a) Gangtok (b) Mumbai (c) Hyderabad (d) Agartala
  31. 31.True or false: Patna lies on the Ganga. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Chennai is the capital of Bihar. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Jabalpur lies on the Narmada. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🧊 The Ganga starts from which glacier? (a) Siachen (b) Zemu (c) Gangotri (d) Pindari
  35. 35.🏞️ Kanpur lies on the banks of which river? (a) Narmada (b) Ganga (c) Tapi (d) Mahanadi
  36. 36.What is the capital of Bihar? (a) Panaji (b) Bhopal (c) Chennai (d) Patna
  37. 37.True or false: Bhopal is the capital of West Bengal. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🏛️ Gangtok is the capital of which state? (a) Arunachal Pradesh (b) Telangana (c) Sikkim (d) Uttar Pradesh
  39. 39.True or false: Gandhinagar is the capital of Gujarat. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🏛️ Bhopal is the capital of which state? (a) Madhya Pradesh (b) Mizoram (c) Kerala (d) Nagaland

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Srinagar
  3. Cuttack
  4. Tapi
  5. Ganga
  6. Surat
  7. Ganga
  8. Tripura
  9. Dispur
  10. Ahmedabad
  11. Arunachal Pradesh
  12. True
  13. True
  14. Goa
  15. Rajasthan
  16. True
  17. Jabalpur
  18. Ganga
  19. Itanagar
  20. False
  21. Agartala
  22. Rajasthan
  23. Kanyakumari
  24. Bhopal
  25. Tamil Nadu
  26. Great Indian Desert
  27. Aizawl
  28. Thiruvananthapuram
  29. Agra
  30. Hyderabad
  31. True
  32. False
  33. True
  34. Gangotri
  35. Ganga
  36. Patna
  37. False
  38. Sikkim
  39. True
  40. Madhya Pradesh

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