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States and territories of India

India is a federal union of states[1]

comprising twenty-eight states and seven union territories. The states and

territories are further subdivided into districts and so on.[1]

List of states and territories

A clickable map of the 28 states and 7 union territories of India.

The Census 2011 codes given in the table have been assigned by Census India from North-West to South-East.

States of India

Name ISO

3266-2

code

Census

2011

code

PopulationArea

(km2)

Language Capital Largest

city

(if not

capital)

No. of

Districts

No. of

Villages

No. of

Towns

Population

density

Literacy

Rate(%)

Percentage

of Urban

Population

to total

Population

Sex

Ratio

Sex

Ratio

(0-6)

Andhra

Pradesh

AP 280 84,665,533 275,045 Telugu,

Urdu

Hyderabad 23 28,123 210 308 67.66 27.3 992 961

Arunachal

Pradesh

AR 120 1,382,611 83,743 Itanagar 16 4,065 17 17 66.95 20.8 920 964

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Assam AS 180 31,169,272 78,550 Assamese,

Bodo,

Rabha

dialect,

Deori,

Bengali

Dispur Guwahati 23 26,312 125 397 73.18 12.9 954 965

Bihar BR 100 103,804,637 99,200 Hindi,Bhojpuri,

Maithili,

Magadhi

Patna 38[2][3] 45,098 130 1102 63.82 10.5 916[3] 942

Chhattisgarh CT 220 25,540,196 135,194 Chattisgarhi,

Hindi

Raipur 16 20,308 97 189 71.04 20.1 991 975

Goa GA 300 1,457,723 3,702 Konkani,

Marathi

Panaji Vasco da

Gama

2 359 44 394 87.40 49.8 968 938

Gujarat GJ 240 60,383,628 196,024 Gujarati Gandhinagar Ahmedabad 25 18,539 242 308 79.31 37.4 918 883

Haryana HR 060 25,353,081 44,212 Haryanvi

(Western

Hindi)

Chandigarh

(shared, Union

Territory)

Faridabad 21 6,955 106 573 76.64 28.9 877 819

Himachal

Pradesh

HP 020 6,856,509 55,673 Western

Hindi

Shimla 12 20,118 57 123 83.78 9.8 920 896

Jammu and

Kashmir

JK 010 12,548,926 222,236Urdu,

[4]

Kashmiri,

Dogri,

Ladakhi[5]

Srinagar (summer)

Jammu (winter)

14 6,652 75 124 68.74 24.8 883 941

Jharkhand JH 200 32,966,238 74,677 Hindi Ranchi Jamshedpur 24 32,615 152 414 67.63 22.2 947 965

Karnataka KA 290 61,130,704 191,791 Kannada Bangalore 30 29,406 270 319 75.60 34.0 968 946

Kerala KL 320 33,387,677 38,863 Malayalam Thiruvananthapuram 14 1,364 159 859 93.91 26.0 1,084 960

Madhya

Pradesh

MP 230 72,597,565 308,252 Hindi Bhopal Indore 45 55,393 394 236 70.63 26.5 930 932

Maharashtra MH 270 112,372,972 307,713 Marathi Mumbai 35 43,711 378 365 82.91 42.4 925 913

Manipur MN 140 2,721,756 22,347 Manipuri Imphal 9 2,391 33 122 79.85 25.1 987 957

Meghalaya ML 170 2,964,007 22,720 Khasi, Pnar Shillong 7 6,026 16 132 75.48 19.6 986 973

Mizoram MZ 150 1,091,014 21,081 Mizo Aizawl 8 817 22 52 91.58 49.6 975 964

Nagaland NL 130 1,980,602 16,579 Angami,

Ao

languages,

Chang,

Chakhesang,

Konyak,

and Sema

Kohima Dimapur 11 1,317 9 119 80.11 17.2 931 964

Orissa[6] OR 210 41,947,358 155,820 Oriya Bhubaneswar 30 51,349 138 269 73.45 15.0 978 953

Punjab PJ 030 27,704,236 50,362 Punjabi Chandigarh

(shared, Union

Territory)

Ludhiana 17 12,673 157 550 76.68 33.9 893 798

Rajasthan RJ 080 68,621,012 342,269 Rajasthani

(Western

Hindi)

Jaipur 32 41,353 222 201 67.06 23.4 926 909

Sikkim SK 110 607,688 7,096 Nepali Gangtok 4 452 9 86 82.20 11.1 889 963

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Tamil Nadu TN 330 72,138,958 130,058 Tamil Chennai 32 16,317 832 480 80.33 44.0 995 942

Tripura TR 160 3,671,032 10,491.69 Bengali Agartala 4 870 23 555 87.75 17.1 961 966

Uttar

Pradesh

UP 090 199,581,477 243,286Hindi,

Urdu[7]

Lucknow Kanpur 72 107,452 704 828 69.72 20.8 908 916

Uttarakhand UT 050 10,116,752 53,566 Western

Hindi

Dehradun (interim) 13 16,826 86 189 79.63 25.7 963 908

West

Bengal

WB 190 91,347,736 88,752 Bengali,

Urdu,

Nepali,

Santali

Kolkata 18 40,782 375 1,029 77.08 28.0 947 960

-Total- 637,643 5,082

Union Territories

Name ISO

3266-2code

Population Language Capital Largest

city

No. of

Districts

No. of

Villages

No. of

Towns

Population

density

Literacy

Rate(%)

Percentage

of UrbanPopulation

to total

Population

Sex

Ratio

Sex

Ratio(0-6)

Andaman

and Nicobar

Islands

AN 379,944 Bengali Port Blair 2 547 3 46 86.27 32.6 878 957

Chandigarh CH 1,054,686 Punjabi Chandigarh 1 24 1 9,252 86.43 89.8 818 845

Dadra and

Nagar Haveli

DN 342,853 Marathi

and

Gujarati

Silvassa 1 70 2 698 77.65 22.9 775 979

Daman and

Diu

DD 242,911 Gujarati Daman 2 23 2 2169 87.07 36.2 618 926

Lakshadweep LD 64,429 Malayalam Kavaratti Andrott 1 24 3 2013 92.28 44.5 946 959

National

Capital

Territory of

Delhi

DL 16,753,235 Hindi New Delhi 9 165 62 11,297 86.34 93.2 866 868

Pondicherry PY 1,244,464 French

and Tamil

Pondicherry 4 92 6 2,598 86.55 66.6 1,038 967

Responsibilities and authorities

The Constitution of India distributes the sovereign powers exercisable with respect to the territory of any State

between the Union and that State. "Article 73 broadly stated, provides that the executive power of the Union shall

extend to the matters with respect to which Parliament has power to make laws. Article 162 similarly provides that

the executive power of a State shall extend to the matters with respect to which the Legislature of a State has power

to make laws. The Supreme Court has reiterated this position when it ruled in the Ramanaiah case that the executive

power of the Union or of the State broadly speaking, is coextensive and coterminous with its respective legislative

power." (italics in original)[8]

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History

Lists relating to Indian states

and

territories

Population

Highest point

GDP

HDI

Tax revenues

Voters

Abbreviations

Natural growth rate

Sex ratio

Vaccination

Literacy rate

Electricity

Capitals

Media exposure

Origin of name

HIV awareness

Household size

Home ownership

Underweight people

Place of worship

TV ownership

Transport network

Power capacity

Institutional delivery

Life expectancy at birth

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Pre-1956

The subcontinent of India has been ruled by many different ethnic groups throughout its history, each imposing their

own administrative divisions on the region.[9][10]

During the British Raj, the original administrative structure was

mostly kept, and India was divided into provinces that were directly governed by the British and princely states

which were nominally controlled by a local prince or raja, although the British held ultimate power over them.

After 1956

The States Reorganization Act of 1956 abolished the British system of provinces and princely states. In its place,

new states were drawn based on ethnicity and language.

The former French and Portuguese colonies in India were incorporated into the Republic as the union territories of

Pondicherry, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Goa, Daman and Diu in 1962.

Several new states and union territories have been created out of existing states since 1956. Bombay State was split

into the linguistic states of Gujarat and Maharashtra on 1 May 1960[11]

by the Bombay Reorganization Act.

Nagaland was made a state on 1 December 1963.[12]

The Punjab Reorganization Act of 1966 divided the Punjab

along linguistic lines, creating a new Hindi-speaking state of Haryana on 1 November,

[13]

transferring the northerndistricts of Punjab to Himachal Pradesh, and designating Chandigarh, the shared capital of Punjab and Haryana, a

union territory.[14]

Statehood was conferred upon Himachal Pradesh[15]

on 25 January 1971, Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura[16]

on 21

January 1972 the Kingdom of Sikkim joined the Indian Union as a state on 26 April 1975.[17]

In 1987, Arunachal

Pradesh and Mizoram became states on 20 February, followed by Goa on 30 May, while Goa's northern exclaves of

Daman and Diu became a separate union territory.[18]

In 2000 three new states were created; Chhattisgarh (1 November 2000) was created out of eastern Madhya

Pradesh,[19]

Uttaranchal (9 November 2000), since renamed Uttarakhand, was created out of the Hilly regions of

northwest Uttar Pradesh,[20]

and Jharkhand (15 November 2000) was created out of the southern districts of

Bihar.[21] The Union Territories of Delhi and Pondicherry have since been given the right to elect their own

legislatures and they are now counted as small states.

Proposals

Ahead of the 2009 General Elections in India, all the major parties in Andhra Pradesh supported statehood for

Telangana. On 11:30 PM 9 December 2009, Mr. P. Chidambaram, Union Minister of Home Affairs, on behalf of the

Government of India, announced that a resolution in the Andhra Pradesh assembly for the creation of a separate

Telangana state would be passed. Mr. Chidambaram also stated that the process for the formation of a separate

Telangana state would be initiated. It was not clear if this initiation of the process meant discussion with everyone

involved on how to divide the state or whether the division of the state was being officially announced.

As a result of this unilateral decision by the Government of India, several members of Andhra Pradesh's legislature

submitted their resignations to protest the creation of the new state owing to the pressure from the people in their

constituencies.[22]

As of 11 December, at least 117 legislators and many Members of Parliament had resigned in

protest of the Government's decision to carve out a new state of Telangana.[23]

Due to the unexpected turn of events, after the parties which promised support to the Telangana state formation on 7

December 2009 in a unanimous all-party meeting at the State level, presided by CM, Rosaiah, and later the party

members of these parties made a U-turn on their support bowing to the pressure from the people in their constituency

following the 9 December statement (in support of Telangana state process initiation), the federal government made

another statement on 23 December to clarify its intention on the process that it would consult with all groups,

political and non-political, before moving forward. It then formed the Justice Sri Krishna committee which has been

touring the state consulting with different sections of the society. A report recommending a solution suitable to all

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In November 2011 Mayawati, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, proposed dividing it into four states, Avadh

Pradesh, Bundelkhand, Paschim Pradesh, and Purvanchal. On 21 November this movement was backed through a

"voice vote" by the state assembly, despite criticism from the opposition and claims that the move was made to gain

support for the next state election. It must gain the approval of the federal government, however this may be difficult

due to the opposition to the creation of Telangana.

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