Ladakh
Ladakh (English: /ləˈdɑːk/, Hindi [ləd̪ːaːx]) [14] is a region administered by India as a union territory [5] and constitutes an eastern portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and India and China since 1959. [15] Ladakh is bordered by the Tibet Autonomous Region of China [16] to the east, the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh to the south, both the Indian-administered union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Pakistani-administered Gilgit-Baltistan to the west, and the southwest corner of Xinjiang across the Karako…
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Delhi
Delhi , [2] officially the National Capital Territory ( NCT ) of Delhi , is a megacity and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, but spread chiefly to the west, or beyond its right bank, Delhi shares borders with the state of Uttar Pradesh in the east and with the state of Haryana in the remaining directions. Delhi became a union territory on 1 November 1956 and the NCT in 1995. [28] The NCT covers an area of 1,484 square kilometres (573 sq mi). [9] According to the 2011 census, Delhi's city proper population was over 11 million,…
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Chandigarh
Chandigarh [1] is a city and union territory in northwestern India, serving as a shared capital for the states of Punjab and Haryana. Situated near the foothills of the Shivalik range of Himalayas, it borders Haryana to the east and Punjab in the remaining directions. Chandigarh constitutes the bulk of the Chandigarh Capital Region or Greater Chandigarh, which also includes the adjacent satellite cities of Panchkula in Haryana and Mohali in Punjab. It is located 260 km (162 miles) northwest of New Delhi and 229 km (143 miles) southeast of Amritsar and 104 km (64 miles) southwest of Shimla.
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Andaman and Nicobar Islands
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a union territory of India comprising 836 islands, of which only 31 are inhabited. [6] The islands are grouped into two main clusters: the northern Andaman Islands and the southern Nicobar Islands, separated by the 150 km (93 mi)-wide Ten Degree Channel. The capital and largest city of the territory, Port Blair (officially Sri Vijaya Puram), is located approximately 1,190 km (740 mi) from Chennai and 1,255 km (780 mi) from Kolkata in mainland India. The islands are situated between the Bay of Bengal to the west and the Andaman Sea to the east. The northern…
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Uttarakhand
Uttarakhand (Hindi: Uttarākhaṇḍ , pronounced [ˈʊt̪ːəɾaːkʰəɳɖ], lit. 'Northern Land'), is a state in northern India. It shares international boundaries with Tibet to the north and Nepal to the east, while the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh are the states that border it to the west and south, respectively. Earlier known as Uttaranchal, this state was carved out from Uttar Pradesh in 2000 and formally declared as a state on 9th November 2000. Uttarakhand has an area of 53,483 km 2 (20,650 sq mi), which constitutes 1.6 per cent of the total area of the country. Dehradun is …
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Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh ( UTT-ər prə-DESH , abbr. UP ; Hindi: Uttar Pradēś , pronounced [ˈʊt̪ːəɾ pɾə.ˈdeːɕ] ⓘ , lit. 'Northern Province') is a state located in northern part of India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is India's most populated state. [18] The state is bordered by Rajasthan to the west, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Delhi to the northwest, Uttarakhand and Nepal to the north, Bihar to the east, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand to the south. It is the fourth-largest Indian state by area covering 243,286 km 2 (93,933 sq mi), accounting for 7.3 per cent of the total area of …
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Tripura
Tripura (/ˈtrɪpʊrə, -ərə/) [13] is a state in northeastern India. The third-smallest state in the country, it covers 10,491 km 2 (4,051 sq mi); and the seventh-least populous state with a population of 3.67 million. [14] It is bordered by Assam and Mizoram to the east, and by Bangladesh to the north, south and west. [15] Tripura is divided into eight districts and 23 sub-divisions, where Agartala is the capital and the largest city in the state. Tripura has 19 different tribal communities [16] with a majority Bengali population. Bengali, Kokborok, and English are the state's official langua…
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Telangana
Telangana [1] is a state in southern India on the Deccan Plateau bordering Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh to the north and Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka to the south. It is the eleventh largest and the twelfth most populated state of India. [14] [15] According to the Rigveda's Aitareya Brahmana, the region corresponding to Telangana has been inhabited by the Asmakas and Andhras since at least the 8th and 9th century BCE, respectively, with the later Satavahana dynasty, who ruled over the entire Deccan Plateau, establishing trade relations as far as the Roman Empire. Subsequent major dynasties …
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Sikkim
Sikkim (/ˈsɪkɪm/ SIK-im ; Nepali: [ˈsikːim]) is a state in northeast India. It borders Bhutan in the east, the Tibet Autonomous Region of China in the north and northeast, Koshi Province of Nepal in the west, and West Bengal in the south. Sikkim is one of the two Indian states that share their border with just one other Indian state — West Bengal. Sikkim is also close to the Siliguri Corridor, which borders Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan. Sikkim is the least populous and second-smallest among the Indian states. Situated in the Eastern Himalaya, Sikkim is notable for its biodiversity, includin…
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Rajasthan
Rajasthan (Hindi: Rājasthāna , pronounced [ɾaːd͡ʒəsˈtʰaːn] ⓘ ; lit. 'Land of Kings') [12] is a state in northwestern India. [13] [14] [15] It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. It covers 342,239 square kilometres (132,139 mi 2 ) or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is on India's northwestern side, where it comprises most of the wide and inhospitable Thar Desert (also known as the Great Indian Desert) and shares a border with the Pakistani provinces of Punjab to the northwest and Sindh to the west, along the Sutlej-Indus River valley…
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Punjab, India
Punjab (/pʌnˈdʒɑːb/ pun-JAHB ; [21] Panjabi: pañjāba , pronounced [pəɲˈd͡ʒaːb] ⓘ ) is a state in northwestern India. Forming part of the larger Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, the state is bordered by the Indian states and union territories of Himachal Pradesh to the north and northeast, Haryana to the south and southeast, Rajasthan to the southwest, Jammu and Kashmir to the north. To the west, it shares an international border with the identically named Pakistani province of Punjab. [22] Chandigarh serves as a shared capital for Punjab as well as Haryana. The state covers an area…
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Odisha
Odisha (Oriya: oṛiśā , pronounced [oˈɽisa] ⓘ ), spelled Orissa until 2011, [18] is a state located in eastern India. It is the eighth-largest state by area, and the eleventh-largest by population, with over 41 million inhabitants. The state also has the third-largest population of Scheduled Tribes in India. [19] It neighbours the states of Jharkhand and West Bengal to the north, Chhattisgarh to the west, and Andhra Pradesh to the south. Odisha has a coastline of 485 kilometres (301 mi) along the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean. [20] The region is also known as Utkaḷa and is mentioned by t…
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Mizoram
Mizoram [1] is a state in northeastern India, with Aizawl as its capital and largest city. It shares 722 kilometres (449 miles) of international borders with Bangladesh to the west, and Myanmar to the east and south, with domestic borders with the Indian states of Assam, Manipur, and Tripura. [11] It covers an area of 21,081 square kilometres [4] (8,139 sq mi). Forests cover 84.53% of the area, making it the fourth most heavily forested state in India. [12] With an estimated population of 1.26 million in 2023, it is the second least populated state in India. [13] With an urbanisation rate o…
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Meghalaya
Meghalaya (/ˌmeɪɡəˈleɪə, meɪˈɡɑːləjə/; [9] [10] lit. "the abode of clouds" [11] ) is a state in northeast India, with Shillong as its capital city. Meghalaya was formed on 21 January 1972 as a new state by carving out two districts from the state of Assam: the united Khasi Hills and Jaintia Hills, and the Garo Hills. [12] The estimated population of Meghalaya in 2014 was 3,211,474. [13] Meghalaya covers an area of approximately 22,429 square kilometres, with a length-to-breadth ratio of about 3:1. [14] The state is bound to the south by the Bangladeshi divisions of Mymensingh and Sylhet, to…
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Manipur
Manipur (/ˌmænɪˈpʊər/, IPA: [məɳiˈpʊɾ]) [14] is a state in northeastern India, with Imphal as its capital city. It borders the Indian states of Assam to the west, Mizoram to the south, and Nagaland to the north and shares the international border with Myanmar, specifically the Sagaing Region to the east and Chin State to the southeast. Covering an area of 22,330 square kilometers (8,621 sq mi), the state consists mostly of hilly terrain with the 1813-square-kilometre (700 sq mi) Imphal Valley inhabited by the Meitei (Manipuri) community, historically a kingdom. Surrounding hills are home to…
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Maharashtra
Maharashtra [1] is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to the southeast and Chhattisgarh to the east, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh to the north, and the Indian union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu to the northwest. [23] Maharashtra is the second-most populous state in India, the third-most populous country subdivision in South Asia, and the fourth-most populous in the world.
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Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh (/ˌmɑːdjə prəˈdɛʃ/; [10] Hindi: [ˈmədʱjə pɾəˈdeːʃ] ⓘ ; lit. 'Central Province') is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal. Other major cities include Indore, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Chhindwara and Sagar. Madhya Pradesh is the second largest Indian state by area and the fifth largest state by population with over 72 million residents. It borders the states of Rajasthan to the northwest, Uttar Pradesh to the northeast, Chhattisgarh to the east, Maharashtra to the south and Gujarat to the west. [11]
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Kerala
Kerala (English: /ˈkɛrələ/ ⓘ / KERR-ə-lə ; Malayalam: [keːɾɐɭɐm] ⓘ ), officially Keralam , [591] is a state on the Malabar Coast of southern India. It was formed on 1 November 1956 under the States Reorganisation Act, which unified the country's Malayalam-speaking regions into a single state. Covering 38,863 km 2 (15,005 sq mi), Kerala is primarily a strip of coastal plains sandwiched by the Western Ghats and the Laccadive Sea, bound by Karnataka to the northeast, Tamil Nadu to the east, and the Lakshadweep islands in the western vicinity. With 33 million inhabitants according to the 2011 c…
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Karnataka
Karnataka [1] is a state on the southwestern coast of India. It was formed as Mysore State on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, and renamed in 1973. The state is bordered by the Lakshadweep Sea to the west, Goa to the northwest, Maharashtra to the north, Telangana to the northeast, Andhra Pradesh to the east, Tamil Nadu to the southeast, and Kerala to the southwest. With 61,130,704 inhabitants recorded in the 2011 census, Karnataka is the eighth-largest Indian state by population; administratively, it is divided into 31 districts. With over 15 million resid…
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Jharkhand
Jharkhand (Hindi: Jhārkhaṇḍ , pronounced [d͡ʒʱaːɾkʰəɳɖ] ⓘ ; lit. 'the land of forests') is a landlocked state in eastern India. [16] The state shares borders with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north and Odisha to the south. It is the 15th largest state by area, and the 14th largest by population. Hindi is the official language of the state. [6] The city of Ranchi is its capital, and Dumka its sub-capital. The state is known for its waterfalls, hills and holy places; Baidyanath Dham, Parasnath, Dewri and Rajrappa…
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