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Answer» Following is the list of sixteen kingdoms, their capitals and the present day places where these kingdoms were situated in the sixth century BCE- | s. No. | Kingdom | Capital | Present Area of the Kingdoms | | 1. | Ang | Champa | Munger and Bhagalpur districts of Bihar | | 2. | Magadh | Patliputra | Gaya and Patna districts of Bihar | | 3. | Kashi | Varanasi | Present day Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh | | 4. | Kausal | Shravasti | Ayodhya and Faizabad area of Awadh in Uttar Pra | | 5. | Vajji | Vaishali | Areas of Vaishali in Bihar in the north of Ganga up to the hills of Nepal. | | 6. | Malla | Kushinara | Kushinara and Pawa area near Patna district in Bihar and Gorakhpur and Deoria districts in Uttar Prades | | 7. | Chedi | Shaktimati | Area of Bundelkhand and Jhansi on the banks of Yamuna | | 8. | Vats | Kaushambhi | Area of Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh | | 9. | Kuru . | Indraprastha | Areas around Delhi, Meerut, Ghaziabad | | 10. | Panchal | Ahichatra | Ruhelkhand between the Ganga and the Yamuna, Raipur, Bareilly, Badaun and Farrukhabad district | | 11. | Matasya | Viratnagar | Area of Jaipur, Bharatpur and Alwar districts of Rajasthan | | 12. | Shoorsen | Mathura | Mathura, Vrindavan and surrounding areas of Uttar Pradesh | | 13. | Ashmak | Potan | Area on both the sides of the banks of the Godawari in the south | | 14. | Awanti | Ujjaini | Ujjain and the Narmada Valley area of Madhya Pr | | 15. | Kamboj | Rajpur | From Jammu and Kashmir to Afghanistan and Pa | | 16. | Gandhar | Taxila | East Afghanistan including the Kashmir Valley and Taxila |
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