List of States and Capitals of India
Important Points On India:
- India is a democratic country with 29 states and 07 union territories.
- It is the seventh-largest country by area and the second-most populous country.
- It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west, China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast, and Myanmar and Bangladesh to the east.
- It It is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast.
- In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
- India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.Now lets have a look upon it.
State – Capitals
- Tamil Nadu – Chennai
- Tripura – Agartala
- Uttar Pradesh – Lucknow
- West Bengal – Kolkata
- Chhattisgarh – Raipur
- Uttarakhand – Dehradun
- Jharkhand – Ranchi
- Telangana – Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh – Hyderabad
- Arunachal Pradesh – Itanagar
- Assam – Dispur
- Bihar – Patna
- Goa – Panaji
- Maharashtra – Mumbai
- Manipur – Imphal
- Meghalaya – Shillong
- Mizoram – Aizawl
- Nagaland – Kohima
- Orissa – Bhubaneswar
- Punjab – Chandigarh
- Rajasthan – Jaipur
- Sikkim – Gangtok
- Gujarat – Gandhinagar
- Haryana – Chandigarh
- Himachal Pradesh – Shimla
- Jammu & Kashmir – Srinagar
- Karnataka – Bangalooru
- Kerala – Tirubanantapuram
- Madhya Pradesh – Bhopal
Union Territories - Capital
- Andaman & Nicobar Islands – Port Blair
- Chandigarh – Chandigarh
- Puducherry – Puducherry
- Dadra & Nagar Haveli – Silvasa
- Delhi -New Delhi
- Daman & Diu – Daman
- Lakshadweep – Kavaratti
NOTE THE POINT:
- The State of Andhra Pradesh has been divided into Telangana and Andhra Pradesh on 02.06.2014.
- Hyderabad will remain capital of both the resultant states for 10 years.
- The proposed capital for the state of Andhra Pradesh is Amaravati in the district of Guntur.
- In 1991(69th amendment), made provisions to make Delhi a special Union Territory.
- It was declared that the former Union Territory of Delhi would be known as National Capital Territory.
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