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Class 4 GK Worksheet: States and Capitals

GK lesson 19: India: states, capitals and rivers · Set 604 · 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 of these cities lies on the Ganga? (a) Mathura (b) Varanasi (c) Srinagar (d) Agra
  2. 2.Which of these cities lies on the Brahmaputra? (a) Varanasi (b) Haridwar (c) Lucknow (d) Dibrugarh
  3. 3.True or false: Kanpur lies on the Sabarmati. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🏞️ Guwahati lies on the banks of which river? (a) Narmada (b) Yamuna (c) Godavari (d) Brahmaputra
  5. 5.🏞️ Varanasi lies on the banks of which river? (a) Gomti (b) Sabarmati (c) Jhelum (d) Ganga
  6. 6.What is the capital of Nagaland? (a) Aizawl (b) Kohima (c) Panaji (d) Bengaluru
  7. 7.🏔️ Which mountain range lies in the north of India? (a) the Andes (b) the Himalayas (c) the Rockies (d) the Alps
  8. 8.Which of these cities lies on the Tapi? (a) Agra (b) Haridwar (c) Patna (d) Surat
  9. 9.True or false: Kanpur lies on the Mahanadi. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.Which of these cities lies on the Yamuna? (a) Agra (b) Nashik (c) Kanpur (d) Cuttack
  11. 11.True or false: Agra lies on the Yamuna. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which of these cities lies on the Yamuna? (a) Lucknow (b) Haridwar (c) Srinagar (d) Mathura
  13. 13.True or false: Kolkata is the capital of Jharkhand. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these cities lies on the Ganga? (a) Delhi (b) Ahmedabad (c) Nashik (d) Patna
  15. 15.🏛️ Imphal is the capital of which state? (a) Manipur (b) Tripura (c) Odisha (d) Mizoram
  16. 16.What is the capital of Bihar? (a) Kolkata (b) Patna (c) Gandhinagar (d) Bengaluru
  17. 17.What is the capital of Karnataka? (a) Mumbai (b) Ranchi (c) Panaji (d) Bengaluru
  18. 18.🗺️ Which is the smallest state of India by area? (a) Maharashtra (b) Rajasthan (c) Goa (d) Uttar Pradesh
  19. 19.True or false: Nashik lies on the Godavari. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🐪 In which state is most of the Thar Desert? (a) Kerala (b) Assam (c) Bihar (d) Rajasthan
  21. 21.🏜️ What is the Thar Desert also called? (a) Cold Desert (b) Gobi Desert (c) Great Indian Desert (d) Sahara Desert
  22. 22.🏞️ Kanpur lies on the banks of which river? (a) Ganga (b) Sabarmati (c) Godavari (d) Brahmaputra
  23. 23.What is the capital of Sikkim? (a) Shillong (b) Patna (c) Chennai (d) Gangtok
  24. 24.🏞️ Mathura lies on the banks of which river? (a) Sabarmati (b) Mahanadi (c) Yamuna (d) Narmada
  25. 25.What is the capital of Mizoram? (a) Aizawl (b) Kohima (c) Bengaluru (d) Kolkata
  26. 26.Which of these cities lies on the Mahanadi? (a) Haridwar (b) Cuttack (c) Lucknow (d) Dibrugarh
  27. 27.True or false: Lucknow lies on the Mahanadi. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these cities lies on the Sabarmati? (a) Nashik (b) Ahmedabad (c) Guwahati (d) Jabalpur
  29. 29.What is the capital of Odisha? (a) Agartala (b) Aizawl (c) Lucknow (d) Bhubaneswar
  30. 30.Which of these cities lies on the Jhelum? (a) Agra (b) Ahmedabad (c) Delhi (d) Srinagar
  31. 31.🏛️ Jaipur is the capital of which state? (a) Arunachal Pradesh (b) Tripura (c) Rajasthan (d) Kerala
  32. 32.🏛️ Agartala is the capital of which state? (a) Gujarat (b) Tripura (c) Odisha (d) Karnataka
  33. 33.🏞️ Haridwar lies on the banks of which river? (a) Jhelum (b) Ganga (c) Sabarmati (d) Yamuna
  34. 34.True or false: Gangtok is the capital of Sikkim. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.What is the capital of Meghalaya? (a) Mumbai (b) Lucknow (c) Bhubaneswar (d) Shillong
  36. 36.True or false: Lucknow lies on the Gomti. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Jaipur is the capital of Tripura. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.What is the capital of Tamil Nadu? (a) Itanagar (b) Chennai (c) Dispur (d) Thiruvananthapuram
  39. 39.🗺️ Which is the largest state of India by area? (a) Sikkim (b) Rajasthan (c) Kerala (d) Goa
  40. 40.🏛️ Gandhinagar is the capital of which state? (a) Sikkim (b) Telangana (c) Gujarat (d) Odisha

Answer key

  1. Varanasi
  2. Dibrugarh
  3. False
  4. Brahmaputra
  5. Ganga
  6. Kohima
  7. the Himalayas
  8. Surat
  9. False
  10. Agra
  11. True
  12. Mathura
  13. False
  14. Patna
  15. Manipur
  16. Patna
  17. Bengaluru
  18. Goa
  19. True
  20. Rajasthan
  21. Great Indian Desert
  22. Ganga
  23. Gangtok
  24. Yamuna
  25. Aizawl
  26. Cuttack
  27. False
  28. Ahmedabad
  29. Bhubaneswar
  30. Srinagar
  31. Rajasthan
  32. Tripura
  33. Ganga
  34. True
  35. Shillong
  36. True
  37. False
  38. Chennai
  39. Rajasthan
  40. Gujarat

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