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Class 4 GK Worksheet: States and Capitals

GK lesson 19: India: states, capitals and rivers · Set 763 · 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.🏞️ Varanasi lies on the banks of which river? (a) Gomti (b) Godavari (c) Ganga (d) Tapi
  2. 2.True or false: Cuttack lies on the Godavari. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.What is the capital of Mizoram? (a) Bengaluru (b) Aizawl (c) Imphal (d) Agartala
  4. 4.What is the capital of Odisha? (a) Gangtok (b) Bhubaneswar (c) Panaji (d) Agartala
  5. 5.🏞️ Ahmedabad lies on the banks of which river? (a) Sabarmati (b) Narmada (c) Brahmaputra (d) Yamuna
  6. 6.🐪 In which state is most of the Thar Desert? (a) Assam (b) Bihar (c) Rajasthan (d) Kerala
  7. 7.What is the capital of West Bengal? (a) Kolkata (b) Kohima (c) Ranchi (d) Imphal
  8. 8.🏜️ What is the Thar Desert also called? (a) Great Indian Desert (b) Sahara Desert (c) Gobi Desert (d) Cold Desert
  9. 9.Which of these cities lies on the Sabarmati? (a) Mathura (b) Ahmedabad (c) Nashik (d) Surat
  10. 10.What is the capital of Karnataka? (a) Ranchi (b) Aizawl (c) Bengaluru (d) Bhubaneswar
  11. 11.True or false: Gandhinagar is the capital of Gujarat. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🗺️ Which is the smallest state of India by area? (a) Rajasthan (b) Goa (c) Maharashtra (d) Uttar Pradesh
  13. 13.True or false: Gangtok is the capital of Tripura. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🌊 Which sea lies to the west of India? (a) Red Sea (b) Arabian Sea (c) Bay of Bengal (d) Black Sea
  15. 15.🏞️ Kanpur lies on the banks of which river? (a) Tapi (b) Jhelum (c) Ganga (d) Narmada
  16. 16.🏞️ Mathura lies on the banks of which river? (a) Sabarmati (b) Yamuna (c) Mahanadi (d) Gomti
  17. 17.True or false: Srinagar lies on the Jhelum. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🏛️ Chennai is the capital of which state? (a) Gujarat (b) Manipur (c) Tamil Nadu (d) Bihar
  19. 19.True or false: Haridwar lies on the Sabarmati. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🏞️ Agra lies on the banks of which river? (a) Yamuna (b) Sabarmati (c) Ganga (d) Godavari
  21. 21.True or false: Hyderabad is the capital of Telangana. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🏛️ Gangtok is the capital of which state? (a) Assam (b) Sikkim (c) Uttar Pradesh (d) Odisha
  23. 23.🏛️ Itanagar is the capital of which state? (a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Rajasthan (c) Maharashtra (d) Arunachal Pradesh
  24. 24.True or false: Kanpur lies on the Ganga. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: Cuttack lies on the Brahmaputra. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: Itanagar is the capital of Arunachal Pradesh. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Jaipur is the capital of Nagaland. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which of these cities lies on the Yamuna? (a) Ahmedabad (b) Cuttack (c) Agra (d) Lucknow
  29. 29.🏞️ Guwahati lies on the banks of which river? (a) Brahmaputra (b) Jhelum (c) Gomti (d) Sabarmati
  30. 30.True or false: Haridwar lies on the Ganga. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Thiruvananthapuram is the capital of Karnataka. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Bhopal is the capital of Madhya Pradesh. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these cities lies on the Ganga? (a) Surat (b) Mathura (c) Delhi (d) Haridwar
  34. 34.True or false: Chennai is the capital of Arunachal Pradesh. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these cities lies on the Gomti? (a) Ahmedabad (b) Lucknow (c) Haridwar (d) Surat
  36. 36.🧊 The Ganga starts from which glacier? (a) Siachen (b) Zemu (c) Pindari (d) Gangotri
  37. 37.What is the capital of Bihar? (a) Agartala (b) Bengaluru (c) Bhopal (d) Patna
  38. 38.What is the capital of Assam? (a) Lucknow (b) Dispur (c) Patna (d) Chennai
  39. 39.True or false: Lucknow lies on the Gomti. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Cuttack lies on the Gomti. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Ganga
  2. False
  3. Aizawl
  4. Bhubaneswar
  5. Sabarmati
  6. Rajasthan
  7. Kolkata
  8. Great Indian Desert
  9. Ahmedabad
  10. Bengaluru
  11. True
  12. Goa
  13. False
  14. Arabian Sea
  15. Ganga
  16. Yamuna
  17. True
  18. Tamil Nadu
  19. False
  20. Yamuna
  21. True
  22. Sikkim
  23. Arunachal Pradesh
  24. True
  25. False
  26. True
  27. False
  28. Agra
  29. Brahmaputra
  30. True
  31. False
  32. True
  33. Haridwar
  34. False
  35. Lucknow
  36. Gangotri
  37. Patna
  38. Dispur
  39. True
  40. False

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