Geography
States and territories of India
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States and territories of India
India is a federal republic made up of 28 states and 8 union territories. Unlike the states, which have their own governments, union territories are governed directly by the Union...
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Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh (AP) is a state in southeastern India. It came into existence in 1953, when the 16 northern Telugu-speaking districts of Madras State became the new state of Andhra...
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Arunachal Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh is a state in northeast India. It occupies the region where the Sivalik Hills, the foothills of the Himalayas, rise from...
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Assam
Assam is a state in northeastern India. It lies to the south of the Himalayas, occupying the valleys of the Brahmaputra and Barak rivers. It is linked to West Bengal and the rest...
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Bihar
Bihar is a state in northern India. It became a state upon India's independence in 1947. In 2000, the southern part of Bihar became the separate state of Jharkhand. Since the late...
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Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh is a state in central India. The area making up the modern state was merged into Madhya Pradesh on 1st November 1956 under the States Reorganization Act. The movement...
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Delhi
Located in northern India, Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India. It contains New Delhi, the capital of India...
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Goa
Goa is a state on the southwestern coast of India. It lies on the Konkan, a region of low hills, deep valleys and a narrow coastal plain. The densely forested Western Ghats...
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Gujarat
Gujarat is a state in western India. Following Indian independence in 1947, Gujarat became part of Bombay State. On 1st May 1960, Bombay was divided into two new states...
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Haryana
Haryana is a state located in northern India. It came into existence on 1st November 1966 as a result of the division of the state of Punjab (known as East Punjab until 1956) into...
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Himachal Pradesh
Situated in the western Himalayas, Himachal Pradesh is the northernmost state of India. (Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, which border it to the north, are both union territories.) In...
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Jammu and Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir, in northern India, is administered as a union territory. It makes up the southwestern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a...
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Jharkhand
Jharkhand ("Land of Forests") is a state in eastern India. A movement for a separate state of Jharkhand began in the 1950s, but because there was no single dominant language in the...
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Karnataka
Karnataka is a state in southwestern India. Following Indian independence, the former princely state of Mysore became part of India in 1950 as Mysore state. Kodagu- and...
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Kerala
Kerala is a state in southwestern India, situated on the Malabar Coast. Two princely states once made up most of the area of modern-day Kerala: Travancore and Cochin. After India's...
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Ladakh
Ladakh, in northern India, is administered as a union territory. It makes up the southeastern portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between...
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Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh is a state in in central India (its name means "Central Province"). The modern state took shape in 1956, when India's state boundaries were re-organized on thebasis...
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Maharashtra
Maharashtra is a state in west central India. It is the nation's third-most populous state and contains its largest city, Mumbai. Following Indian independence in 1947, it became...
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Manipur
Manipur is a state in northeast India. It contains a wide central valley, the Manipur Basin or Imphal Valley, which is surrounded by hills and mountain ranges. At 2994 metres (9823...
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Meghalaya
Meghalaya is a state in northeast India. It occupies the Meghalaya (or Shillong) Plateau, an upland region made up of the Khasi, Garo and Jaintia hills. When the the southwest...
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Mizoram
Mizoram is a state in northeast India. A land of valleys and ridges, its highest point is Phawngpui Tlang (Blue Mountain), 2210 metres (7250 feet), a peak in the southeast...
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Nagaland
Nagaland is a state in northeast India. Most of its terrain is mountainous. The Naga Hills rise to the south of the Brahmaputra Plain, merging with the Patkai Range along the...
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Odisha
Odisha is a state in eastern India. Following India's independence, most of the Orissa Tributary States, a group of princely states, joined the state of Orissa (as it was then...
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Punjab
Punjab is a state in northern India. Forming part of the larger Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent (Punjab, a province of Pakistan, lies just to the west), Indian Punjab was...
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Rajasthan
Rajasthan, India's largest state by area, is located in northwestern India. It was formed in 1949 when the various states overseen by the British Rajputana Agency, a collection of...
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Sikkim
Sikkim is a state in northeast India. The second smallest Indian state by area, it is the least populous. Sikkim occupies a basin in the Himalayas. Its mountainous terrain is...
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Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu, a state located in southeastern India, is the home of the Tamil people. After Indian independence in 1947, the former British Madras Presidency became Madras State...
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Telangana
Telangana is a state located in southern central India on the Deccan Plateau. The state came into existence on 2nd June 2014, when it was separated from the northwestern part of...
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Tripura
Tripura is a state in northeast India. Five mountain ranges and four major valleys run north-south through the state. The Jampui Range on the eastern border with Mizoram rises to...
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Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh ("North Province") is a state in northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the most populous state in India, accounting for 16.5% of the nation's total...
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Uttarakhand
Uttarakhand ("Northern Land"), previously known as Uttaranchal, is a state in northern India. Much of Uttarakhand lies in the Himalayas, with just a narrow portion of the...
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West Bengal
West Bengal is a state in northern India. When India gained independence in 1947, the region of Bengal was partitioned along religious lines. West Bengal, a Hindu-majority region...
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Andaman and Nicobar islands
The Andaman and Nicobar islands are a chain of 572 islands in the Indian Ocean, lying at the eastern edge of the Bay of Bengal. The islands belong to India, which governs them as a...
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