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Class 4 GK Worksheet: States and Capitals

GK lesson 19: India: states, capitals and rivers · Set 889 · 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: Mumbai is the capital of Nagaland. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.What is the capital of Telangana? (a) Mumbai (b) Hyderabad (c) Dispur (d) Gangtok
  3. 3.Which of these cities lies on the Sabarmati? (a) Ahmedabad (b) Dibrugarh (c) Srinagar (d) Cuttack
  4. 4.What is the capital of West Bengal? (a) Kolkata (b) Mumbai (c) Thiruvananthapuram (d) Kohima
  5. 5.What is the capital of Assam? (a) Ranchi (b) Jaipur (c) Bhubaneswar (d) Dispur
  6. 6.True or false: Bhopal is the capital of Madhya Pradesh. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: Mathura lies on the Mahanadi. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🏛️ Bhubaneswar is the capital of which state? (a) Kerala (b) Goa (c) Odisha (d) Tamil Nadu
  9. 9.🌊 Which ocean lies to the south of India? (a) Arctic Ocean (b) Atlantic Ocean (c) Indian Ocean (d) Pacific Ocean
  10. 10.🌊 Which sea lies to the west of India? (a) Red Sea (b) Bay of Bengal (c) Arabian Sea (d) Black Sea
  11. 11.True or false: Mumbai is the capital of Maharashtra. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.What is the capital of Rajasthan? (a) Jaipur (b) Shillong (c) Mumbai (d) Bengaluru
  13. 13.🏛️ Chennai is the capital of which state? (a) Arunachal Pradesh (b) Tamil Nadu (c) West Bengal (d) Nagaland
  14. 14.🏛️ Thiruvananthapuram is the capital of which state? (a) Nagaland (b) Mizoram (c) Maharashtra (d) Kerala
  15. 15.🏞️ Kanpur lies on the banks of which river? (a) Narmada (b) Yamuna (c) Ganga (d) Mahanadi
  16. 16.🏞️ Haridwar lies on the banks of which river? (a) Mahanadi (b) Sabarmati (c) Ganga (d) Yamuna
  17. 17.What is the capital of Bihar? (a) Imphal (b) Patna (c) Bengaluru (d) Hyderabad
  18. 18.Which of these cities lies on the Mahanadi? (a) Cuttack (b) Agra (c) Srinagar (d) Delhi
  19. 19.🏞️ Surat lies on the banks of which river? (a) Sabarmati (b) Brahmaputra (c) Gomti (d) Tapi
  20. 20.🏛️ Shillong is the capital of which state? (a) Tripura (b) Uttar Pradesh (c) Meghalaya (d) Goa
  21. 21.🏛️ Ranchi is the capital of which state? (a) Jharkhand (b) Karnataka (c) Goa (d) Uttar Pradesh
  22. 22.🏛️ Dispur is the capital of which state? (a) Manipur (b) Meghalaya (c) Karnataka (d) Assam
  23. 23.🗺️ Which is the largest state of India by area? (a) Rajasthan (b) Sikkim (c) Goa (d) Kerala
  24. 24.What is the capital of Uttar Pradesh? (a) Lucknow (b) Bengaluru (c) Bhopal (d) Thiruvananthapuram
  25. 25.🏔️ Which mountain range lies in the north of India? (a) the Alps (b) the Andes (c) the Rockies (d) the Himalayas
  26. 26.Which of these cities lies on the Yamuna? (a) Delhi (b) Nashik (c) Haridwar (d) Ahmedabad
  27. 27.True or false: Bengaluru is the capital of Karnataka. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.What is the capital of Arunachal Pradesh? (a) Mumbai (b) Itanagar (c) Jaipur (d) Kohima
  29. 29.Which of these cities lies on the Brahmaputra? (a) Kanpur (b) Haridwar (c) Dibrugarh (d) Delhi
  30. 30.What is the capital of Tripura? (a) Panaji (b) Lucknow (c) Agartala (d) Itanagar
  31. 31.True or false: Lucknow lies on the Ganga. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Jabalpur lies on the Godavari. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🏞️ Jabalpur lies on the banks of which river? (a) Sabarmati (b) Ganga (c) Narmada (d) Godavari
  34. 34.True or false: Dibrugarh lies on the Brahmaputra. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Dispur is the capital of Bihar. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Cuttack lies on the Mahanadi. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these cities lies on the Ganga? (a) Ahmedabad (b) Mathura (c) Jabalpur (d) Kanpur
  38. 38.🏜️ What is the Thar Desert also called? (a) Cold Desert (b) Great Indian Desert (c) Gobi Desert (d) Sahara Desert
  39. 39.🏞️ Srinagar lies on the banks of which river? (a) Sabarmati (b) Narmada (c) Jhelum (d) Ganga
  40. 40.🏞️ Varanasi lies on the banks of which river? (a) Jhelum (b) Sabarmati (c) Ganga (d) Mahanadi

Answer key

  1. False
  2. Hyderabad
  3. Ahmedabad
  4. Kolkata
  5. Dispur
  6. True
  7. False
  8. Odisha
  9. Indian Ocean
  10. Arabian Sea
  11. True
  12. Jaipur
  13. Tamil Nadu
  14. Kerala
  15. Ganga
  16. Ganga
  17. Patna
  18. Cuttack
  19. Tapi
  20. Meghalaya
  21. Jharkhand
  22. Assam
  23. Rajasthan
  24. Lucknow
  25. the Himalayas
  26. Delhi
  27. True
  28. Itanagar
  29. Dibrugarh
  30. Agartala
  31. False
  32. False
  33. Narmada
  34. True
  35. False
  36. True
  37. Kanpur
  38. Great Indian Desert
  39. Jhelum
  40. Ganga

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