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Class 4 GK Worksheet: States and Capitals

GK lesson 19: India: states, capitals and rivers · Set 589 · 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: Chennai is the capital of Tamil Nadu. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🏞️ Agra lies on the banks of which river? (a) Tapi (b) Brahmaputra (c) Yamuna (d) Narmada
  3. 3.🏞️ Jabalpur lies on the banks of which river? (a) Yamuna (b) Mahanadi (c) Tapi (d) Narmada
  4. 4.🏞️ Kanpur lies on the banks of which river? (a) Brahmaputra (b) Sabarmati (c) Ganga (d) Godavari
  5. 5.True or false: Ranchi is the capital of Jharkhand. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.Which of these cities lies on the Sabarmati? (a) Cuttack (b) Haridwar (c) Varanasi (d) Ahmedabad
  7. 7.True or false: Kanpur lies on the Ganga. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.What is the capital of Telangana? (a) Bhubaneswar (b) Panaji (c) Hyderabad (d) Shillong
  9. 9.Which of these cities lies on the Brahmaputra? (a) Kanpur (b) Dibrugarh (c) Delhi (d) Surat
  10. 10.🏜️ What is the Thar Desert also called? (a) Gobi Desert (b) Great Indian Desert (c) Cold Desert (d) Sahara Desert
  11. 11.🧊 The Ganga starts from which glacier? (a) Pindari (b) Siachen (c) Gangotri (d) Zemu
  12. 12.True or false: Jabalpur lies on the Narmada. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🏛️ Mumbai is the capital of which state? (a) Jharkhand (b) Kerala (c) Tripura (d) Maharashtra
  14. 14.What is the capital of Jharkhand? (a) Dispur (b) Aizawl (c) Ranchi (d) Imphal
  15. 15.True or false: Delhi lies on the Yamuna. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these cities lies on the Godavari? (a) Haridwar (b) Srinagar (c) Nashik (d) Delhi
  17. 17.True or false: Bengaluru is the capital of Karnataka. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: Haridwar lies on the Ganga. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🏛️ Bhubaneswar is the capital of which state? (a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Meghalaya (c) Odisha (d) Gujarat
  20. 20.What is the capital of Sikkim? (a) Bhopal (b) Gangtok (c) Imphal (d) Itanagar
  21. 21.🏛️ Shillong is the capital of which state? (a) Meghalaya (b) Maharashtra (c) Tripura (d) Mizoram
  22. 22.🏛️ Chennai is the capital of which state? (a) Goa (b) Uttar Pradesh (c) Bihar (d) Tamil Nadu
  23. 23.🏞️ Patna lies on the banks of which river? (a) Ganga (b) Jhelum (c) Mahanadi (d) Godavari
  24. 24.🗺️ Which is the smallest state of India by area? (a) Maharashtra (b) Goa (c) Uttar Pradesh (d) Rajasthan
  25. 25.Which of these cities lies on the Tapi? (a) Jabalpur (b) Agra (c) Cuttack (d) Surat
  26. 26.🏛️ Panaji is the capital of which state? (a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Maharashtra (c) Goa (d) Tamil Nadu
  27. 27.True or false: Varanasi lies on the Ganga. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🏛️ Patna is the capital of which state? (a) Assam (b) Meghalaya (c) Bihar (d) Kerala
  29. 29.True or false: Lucknow is the capital of Rajasthan. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🏛️ Aizawl is the capital of which state? (a) Sikkim (b) Maharashtra (c) Mizoram (d) Nagaland
  31. 31.True or false: Varanasi lies on the Godavari. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Mathura lies on the Ganga. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🏔️ Which mountain range lies in the north of India? (a) the Rockies (b) the Himalayas (c) the Andes (d) the Alps
  34. 34.True or false: Shillong is the capital of Uttar Pradesh. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Bhopal is the capital of Sikkim. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Shillong is the capital of Meghalaya. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.What is the capital of Karnataka? (a) Imphal (b) Patna (c) Dispur (d) Bengaluru
  38. 38.What is the capital of Uttar Pradesh? (a) Kohima (b) Gandhinagar (c) Bhopal (d) Lucknow
  39. 39.What is the capital of Assam? (a) Itanagar (b) Dispur (c) Patna (d) Imphal
  40. 40.True or false: Varanasi lies on the Gomti. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Yamuna
  3. Narmada
  4. Ganga
  5. True
  6. Ahmedabad
  7. True
  8. Hyderabad
  9. Dibrugarh
  10. Great Indian Desert
  11. Gangotri
  12. True
  13. Maharashtra
  14. Ranchi
  15. True
  16. Nashik
  17. True
  18. True
  19. Odisha
  20. Gangtok
  21. Meghalaya
  22. Tamil Nadu
  23. Ganga
  24. Goa
  25. Surat
  26. Goa
  27. True
  28. Bihar
  29. False
  30. Mizoram
  31. False
  32. False
  33. the Himalayas
  34. False
  35. False
  36. True
  37. Bengaluru
  38. Lucknow
  39. Dispur
  40. False

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