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Class 4 GK Worksheet: States and Capitals

GK lesson 19: India: states, capitals and rivers · Set 711 · 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: Guwahati lies on the Brahmaputra. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🏜️ What is the Thar Desert also called? (a) Sahara Desert (b) Great Indian Desert (c) Cold Desert (d) Gobi Desert
  3. 3.🏛️ Lucknow is the capital of which state? (a) Rajasthan (b) Uttar Pradesh (c) Madhya Pradesh (d) Mizoram
  4. 4.🏞️ Nashik lies on the banks of which river? (a) Ganga (b) Yamuna (c) Godavari (d) Brahmaputra
  5. 5.What is the capital of Tripura? (a) Imphal (b) Lucknow (c) Agartala (d) Chennai
  6. 6.🏛️ Gangtok is the capital of which state? (a) West Bengal (b) Sikkim (c) Bihar (d) Uttar Pradesh
  7. 7.🏛️ Hyderabad is the capital of which state? (a) Telangana (b) Maharashtra (c) West Bengal (d) Kerala
  8. 8.True or false: Varanasi lies on the Ganga. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🏔️ Which mountain range lies in the north of India? (a) the Himalayas (b) the Andes (c) the Alps (d) the Rockies
  10. 10.What is the capital of Gujarat? (a) Mumbai (b) Kohima (c) Aizawl (d) Gandhinagar
  11. 11.Which of these cities lies on the Sabarmati? (a) Srinagar (b) Surat (c) Cuttack (d) Ahmedabad
  12. 12.Which of these cities lies on the Brahmaputra? (a) Haridwar (b) Nashik (c) Guwahati (d) Patna
  13. 13.True or false: Chennai is the capital of Tamil Nadu. (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.True or false: Patna lies on the Ganga. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: Bengaluru is the capital of Kerala. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🏛️ Ranchi is the capital of which state? (a) Odisha (b) Bihar (c) Jharkhand (d) Sikkim
  18. 18.True or false: Mathura lies on the Mahanadi. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.📍 Which place is at the southern tip of mainland India? (a) Darjeeling (b) Kanyakumari (c) Leh (d) Shimla
  20. 20.🏞️ Srinagar lies on the banks of which river? (a) Tapi (b) Jhelum (c) Mahanadi (d) Gomti
  21. 21.🏞️ Lucknow lies on the banks of which river? (a) Yamuna (b) Mahanadi (c) Gomti (d) Tapi
  22. 22.Which of these cities lies on the Gomti? (a) Surat (b) Delhi (c) Varanasi (d) Lucknow
  23. 23.Which of these cities lies on the Brahmaputra? (a) Mathura (b) Agra (c) Dibrugarh (d) Ahmedabad
  24. 24.🏞️ Varanasi lies on the banks of which river? (a) Mahanadi (b) Narmada (c) Ganga (d) Yamuna
  25. 25.What is the capital of Uttar Pradesh? (a) Lucknow (b) Bhopal (c) Bengaluru (d) Imphal
  26. 26.True or false: Ahmedabad lies on the Sabarmati. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: Haridwar lies on the Ganga. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Itanagar is the capital of Arunachal Pradesh. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.What is the capital of Maharashtra? (a) Bengaluru (b) Lucknow (c) Ranchi (d) Mumbai
  30. 30.🏛️ Kohima is the capital of which state? (a) Maharashtra (b) Nagaland (c) Meghalaya (d) Tripura
  31. 31.🏞️ Ahmedabad lies on the banks of which river? (a) Tapi (b) Gomti (c) Jhelum (d) Sabarmati
  32. 32.🏛️ Jaipur is the capital of which state? (a) Rajasthan (b) Odisha (c) Tamil Nadu (d) Mizoram
  33. 33.🏛️ Shillong is the capital of which state? (a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Kerala (c) Karnataka (d) Meghalaya
  34. 34.🏞️ Delhi lies on the banks of which river? (a) Mahanadi (b) Yamuna (c) Gomti (d) Sabarmati
  35. 35.True or false: Dibrugarh lies on the Narmada. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Kanpur lies on the Ganga. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.What is the capital of Telangana? (a) Hyderabad (b) Dispur (c) Chennai (d) Bhubaneswar
  38. 38.What is the capital of West Bengal? (a) Ranchi (b) Dispur (c) Bhubaneswar (d) Kolkata
  39. 39.What is the capital of Goa? (a) Kolkata (b) Aizawl (c) Panaji (d) Kohima
  40. 40.🧊 The Ganga starts from which glacier? (a) Zemu (b) Pindari (c) Gangotri (d) Siachen

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Great Indian Desert
  3. Uttar Pradesh
  4. Godavari
  5. Agartala
  6. Sikkim
  7. Telangana
  8. True
  9. the Himalayas
  10. Gandhinagar
  11. Ahmedabad
  12. Guwahati
  13. True
  14. Goa
  15. True
  16. False
  17. Jharkhand
  18. False
  19. Kanyakumari
  20. Jhelum
  21. Gomti
  22. Lucknow
  23. Dibrugarh
  24. Ganga
  25. Lucknow
  26. True
  27. True
  28. True
  29. Mumbai
  30. Nagaland
  31. Sabarmati
  32. Rajasthan
  33. Meghalaya
  34. Yamuna
  35. False
  36. True
  37. Hyderabad
  38. Kolkata
  39. Panaji
  40. Gangotri

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