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States / UT and Capitals

👉India is seventh largest country in the world and also the second populous.
👉It lies in southern Asia. It is officially known as the Republic of India.
👉 It is governed by a parliamentary form of government. It gets very difficult to manage the large country from one place. So Indian Constitution give right to the central government to make states as it feel suitable.
 👉There are a total of 28 states and 8 union territories in India at present.
👉Each state of India has an administrative, legislative and judicial capital some state all three functions are conducted in one capital. Every state is ruled by a Chief Minister

States and Capitals: Important Points of States and UT

State	Union Territories
The state has its own administrative units with their own elected government.	Union Territories are constituent units which are controlled and administered by the Central Government.
Executive Head is the Governor	Executive Head is the President
The relationship with the Centre is Federal.	Unitary with the Centre. i.e. all the powers rests in the hands of Union.
Administered by the Chief Minister and elected by the people.	Administered by the Administrator which is appointed by the President. ( except Delhi, Puducherry and Jammu & Kashmir)
Chief Minister is the real head.	Lieutenant is the real head.

N.B: Out of the eight union territories in India, three union territories have their own legislatures these are Delhi, Puducherry (formerly Pondicherry) and Jammu and Kashmir.

States and Capitals of India: UT Updates

👉Since 26th January 2020, India has 8 union territories. The U.T Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli have become a single union territory.

👉On August 5, the central government had also announced the abrogation of the special status given to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 and its division into two Union Territories i.e. UTs of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh

👉With the merger of Daman and Diu, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, the number of UT's have come down to eight

List of States and Capitals of India

 

States Name	Capital
Andhra Pradesh	Hyderabad (Proposed Capital Amaravati)
Arunachal Pradesh	Itanagar
Assam	Dispur
Bihar	Patna
Chhattisgarh	Raipur
Goa	Panaji
Gujarat	Gandhinagar
Haryana	Chandigarh
Himachal Pradesh	Shimla
Jharkhand	Ranchi
Karnataka	Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore)
Kerala	Thiruvananthapuram
Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal
Maharashtra	Mumbai
Manipur	Imphal
Meghalaya	Shillong
Mizoram	Aizawl
Nagaland	Kohima
Odisha	Bhubaneswar
Punjab	Chandigarh
Rajasthan	Jaipur
Sikkim	Gangtok
Tamil Nadu	Chennai
Telangana	Hyderabad
Tripura	Agartala
Uttar Pradesh	Lucknow
Uttarakhand	Dehradun (Winter) Gairsain (Summer)
West Bengal	Kolkata

 

Union Territories and Capitals

Union Territories Names	Capital
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	Port Blair
Chandigarh	Chandigarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu	Daman
Delhi	New Delhi
Jammu and Kashmir	Srinagar (Summer) Jammu (Winter)
Lakshadweep	Kavaratti
Puducherry	Pondicherry

 

Ladakh

Leh

 

 

States and Capitals of India Map

Largest State in India by Area

👉Rajasthan is the largest state in India in terms of area which covers 342,239 km² of land area

S. No.	State Name	Area (km2)
1	Rajasthan	342,239
2	Madhya Pradesh	308,245
3	Maharashtra	307,713
4	Uttar Pradesh	240,928
5	Gujarat	196,024
6	Karnataka	191,791
7	Andhra Pradesh	162,968
8	Odisha	155,707
9	Chhattisgarh	135,191
10	Tamil Nadu	130,058
11	Telangana	112,077
12	Bihar	94,163
13	West Bengal	88,752
14	Arunachal Pradesh	83,743
15	Jharkhand	79,714
16	Assam	78,438
17	Himachal Pradesh	55,673
18	Uttarakhand	53,483
19	Punjab	50,362
20	Haryana	44,212
21	Kerala	38,863
22	Meghalaya	22,429
23	Manipur	22,327
24	Mizoram	21,081
25	Nagaland	16,579
26	Tripura	10,486
27	Sikkim	7,096
28	Goa	3,702

 

Largest Union Territory in India by Area

👉Jammu and Kashmir is the largest union territory in India in terms of area which covers 125,535 km² of land area

S. No.	Union Territory Name	Area (km2)
1	Jammu and Kashmir	125,535
2	Ladakh	96,701
3	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	8,249
4	Delhi	1,484
5	Dadra and Nagar Haveli & Daman and Diu	603
6	Puducherry	479
7	Chandigarh	114
8	Lakshadweep	32.62

Largest State in India by Population

👉Uttar Pradesh is the largest state in India in terms of population. As per the details from Census 2011 , the total population of Uttar Pradesh is 199,812,341

👉Sikkim is the least populus state in India. 

 

S. No.	State Name	Population (As per Census 2011)
1	Uttar Pradesh	199,812,341
2	Maharashtra	112,374,333
3	Bihar	104,099,452
4	West Bengal	91,276,115
5	Andhra Pradesh	84,580,777
6	Madhya Pradesh	72,626,809
7	Tamil Nadu	72,147,030
8	Rajasthan	68,548,437
9	Karnataka	61,095,297
10	Gujarat	60,439,692
11	Orissa	41,974,218
12	Kerala	33,406,061
13	Jharkhand	32,988,134
14	Assam	31,205,576
15	Punjab	27,743,338
16	Chhattisgarh	25,545,198
17	Haryana	25,351,462
20	Uttarakhand	10,086,292
21	Himachal Pradesh	6,864,602
22	Tripura	3,673,917
23	Meghalaya	2,966,889
24	Manipur	2,855,794
25	Nagaland	1,978,502
26	Goa	1,458,545
27	Arunachal Pradesh	1,383,727
29	Mizoram	1,097,206
31	Sikkim	610,577

Largest Union Territory in India by Population

👉Delhi, the capital of India is the largest union territory in India in terms of population.

S. No.	UT Name	Population (as per 2011 Census)
1	Delhi	16,787,941
2, 3	Jammu and Kashmir + Ladakh	12,541,302
4	Puducherry	1,247,953
5	Chandigarh	1,055,450
6	Dadra and Nagar Haveli & Daman and Diu	5,86,956
7	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	380,581
8	Lakshadweep	64,473