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How many states in India:- 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 a large country from one place. So Indian Constitution gives the right to the central government to make states feels suitable. This article talks about the list of the Indian States.

States and Capitals of India

Many people don’t know about the total number of States / Union Territories in India and their capitals. In this article, we are giving you the latest update on the States and Capitals of India. 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. Here we have covered the list of the Indian States, Union Territories, and their capitals.

India has 28 states. There are also 8 union territories. The 28 Indian States and their capitals are as follows.

Indian Union Territories and Capitals

At Present India now has 28 States and 8 Union Territories. The erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir has been bifurcated into two Union Territories (UT) of J&K and Ladakh. The newly formed union territories have been formed under a reorganization act passed by the Parliament on 5-6 August 2020. At present India has 8 Union Territories.

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Andhra Pradesh

• Hyderabad was the former capital of Andhra Pradesh but it got replaced by Amravati, people’s capital. The foundation stone was laid on October 22, 2015.
• The Buddhist Stupa at Amravati is the biggest stupa in the country with a diameter of 50 meters and a height of 27 meters
• Recognising Amravati’s ancient Buddhist roots, the developers also plan to a design the High Court in a way that it resembles the Buddhist Stupa
• According to the timeline of this mega project, Andhra’s capital will be populated and functional only by 2024, i.e after the end of its second phase, when most of the buildings, commercial establishments, universities, and the central business district will become operational. The third and final phase is expected to be completed by 2029.

Arunachal Pradesh

• Itanagar has been the capital of Arunachal Pradesh since April 20, 1974
• Arunachal Pradesh is India’s largest state in the Northeast.

Assam

• Initially, Shillong was the capital of Assam but got replaced by Dispur in 1972
• Dispur is a locality or suburb in Guwahati city that is why Guwahati is often referred to as the capital city of Assam.

Bihar

• Patna is the largest city of the state of Bihar, 19th most populous city and the fifth fastest growing city in the country
• Being a place of several strip rivers, including Sone, Gandak, and Punpun, Patna is known as the largest riverine city in the world
• In 1912, Patna became the capital of the British province of Orissa and Bihar till 1935 when Orissa became a separate state
• Most notable Satyagraha movements of Mahatma Gandhi namely the Champaran movement against the Indigo plantation and the 1942 Quit India Movement were started from this city.

Chhattisgarh

• Chhattisgarh’s new capital Naya Raipur will be renamed as Atal Nagar in memory of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
• The announcement was made by Chhattisgarh’s chief minister, Raman Singh, on August 21, 2018
• Raipur was the former capital of Chhattisgarh. The town of Raipur has been in existence since the 9th century.

Goa

• Panaji is also known as Panjim in English, Ponnji in Konkani, and Pongim in Portuguese
• After Independence, Indian Army attacked Goa including Panaji and uprooted the Portuguese controls in 1961. Thereafter, Goa was merged with India as a Union Territory
• It was declared as a state of India in 1987 along with Panaji as the capital of Goa

Gujarat

• In 1960, the Indian state of Bombay was split into two states, Maharashtra and Gujarat. The city of Mumbai was given to Maharashtra, leaving Gujarat without a capital city
• At that time, Ahmedabad was selected to be the first capital of the newly created state
• It was later proposed that a new capital city should be constructed for the state along the lines of the other two planned cities of India, Chandigarh, and Bhubaneshwar
• Gandhinagar got its name from the Father of the Nation.

Haryana

• Chandigarh derives its name from the temple of ‘Chandi Mandir’ located in the vicinity of the site selected for the city. The deity ‘Chandi’, the goddess of power and a fort of ‘garh’ lying beyond the temple gave the city its name ‘stronghold of the goddess Chandi
• With the partition of India in 1947, the old British province of Punjab was divided into two parts. The larger western part, including the Punjabi capital of Lahore, became a part of Pakistan
• The eastern part was granted to India, but it was without an administrative, commercial, or cultural centre
• Plans to find a suitable site for the capital of the new Indian Punjab were undertaken soon after the partition
• The Indian government after considering several options selected Chandigarh as the capital in 1948.

Himachal Pradesh

• Jammu and Kashmir is not the only state with two capitals anymore. In 2017, Dharamsala was declared as HP’s winter capital, which means it’ll have two capital cities i.e. Shimla and Dharamshala
• Dharamshala is also the hometown of Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama.

Jharkhand

• Jharkhand is one of the richest mineral zones in the world and boasts of 40 per cent and 29 per cent of India’s mineral and coal reserves respectively
• Jharkhand is the only state in India to produce coking coal, uranium and pyrite.

Karnataka

• Bangalore, officially known as Bengaluru, is the capital of south Indian state, Karnataka. After India’s independence in 1947, Bengaluru became the capital of Mysore State and remained its capital till the new Indian state of Karnataka was formed in 1956
• Bengaluru is also known as the ‘Silicon Valley of India’ because of its role as the nation’s leading information technology (IT) exporter
• Indian technological organizations, such as ISRO, Infosys and Wipro are headquartered in the city.

Kerala

• Thiruvananthapuram, formerly known as Trivandrum, is the capital of Kerala state
• This clean city is built on seven hills, called as Thiru-Anantha-Puram, meaning ‘the town of Lord Anantha’.

Madhya Pradesh

• Bhopal was founded by King Bhoja in the 11th century. The city was thus named ‘Bhoj-pal’ and later came to be known as Bhopal
• Bhopal is also known as the ‘city of lakes’ for its various natural as well as artificial lakes. Bhopal lake, known as the upper lake is the oldest man-made lake in India.

Maharashtra

• Mumbai was formerly known as Bombay till 1995. Mumbai is the financial, commercial and entertainment capital of India
• It is also one of the world’s top ten centres of commerce in terms of global financial flow, generating 6.16 per cent of India’s GDP.

Manipur

• Ima Keithal market in Imphal is probably the world’s only all-women run marketplace. In Manipuri, Ima means mother and Keithal means market, so it is known as ‘Mothers market’
• Only married women are allowed to trade and run the stalls in this multi-ethnic 500-year-old marketplace, a privilege that is passed on from one generation of Manipuri women to the another.

Meghalaya

• Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya, is the only hill station that is accessible from all sides. In 1874, it became the capital of composite Assam under British rule
• In 1972, after the formation of Meghalaya as an independent state, Shillong became its capital

Mizoram

• Aizawl is the political and cultural centre of Mizoram. It is here that the State Legislature is situated
• It is also the commercial hub of the state and all commercial and economic activities are centered around the city.

• Aizawl is the political and cultural centre of Mizoram. It is here that the State Legislature is situated
• It is also the commercial hub of the state and all commercial and economic activities are centered around the city.

• Aizawl is the political and cultural centre of Mizoram. It is here that the State Legislature is situated
• It is also the commercial hub of the state and all commercial and economic activities are centered around the city.

Nagaland

• Kohima is the land of the Angami Naga tribe
• The name, Kohima, was officially given by the British as they could not pronounce the Angami name Kewhima or Kewhira, which comes from the Kewhi flowers, which are found all around in the mountains
• Earlier, Kohima was also known as Thigoma.

Odisha (Orissa) 

• In 1948, Bhubaneswar replaced Cuttack as the capital of Odisha
• It is also popularly known as the ‘temple city of India’.

Punjab

• Chandigarh as a Union Territory was constituted on November 1, 1966, when the Indian Punjab was reorganised along linguistic lines into two new states- Haryana and Punjab
• Straddled between Haryana and Punjab, the city of Chandigarh was made the shared capital of the two states and of the Union Territory itself.

Rajasthan

• Jaipur is popularly known as the ‘Pink city of Rajasthan,’ because of its pink coloured buildings
• It was built in the 18th century by Raja Sawai Jai Singh II and was the first planned city of India.

Sikkim

• The name Gangtok is derived from a Tibetan word, which means ‘hilltop’ or ‘top of the hill’
• With the presence of several monasteries, centres for tibetology and religious educational institutions, Gangtok is a famous centre of Tibetan Buddhist culture.

Tamil Nadu

• Chennai, formerly known as Madras Patnam, is 380 years old. From a stretch of no man’s land in 1639, it has grown to become a major industrial, business and cultural centre
• Chennai Corporation initially called as Madras municipal corporation is the oldest Municipal Corporation in India established in 1688.

Telangana

• Telangana was constituted as the 29th state of India on June 2, 2014
• Hyderabad was the joint capital of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh until 2015
• Now, Hyderabad is only the capital of Telangana.

Tripura

• Agartala is a component of two words — namely Agar, a kind of oily valuable perfume tree and tala, a storehouse
• The percentage of literacy in Agartala, according to 2011 census, was 93.88, higher than the national literacy rate.

Uttar Pradesh

• Lucknow is popularly known as ‘The City of Nawabs’. It is also known as the Golden City of the East, Shiraz-i-Hind and the Constantinople of India
• Lucknow was the epicenter of the 1857 War of Independence.

Uttarakhand

• Dehradun is mentioned in the Ramayana and Mahabharata in the ancient puranic stories making it one of the oldest cities of India
• Dehradun is also called as the Abode of Guru Drona
• The Central Braille Press in Dehradun is the largest producer of Braille textbooks in India.

West Bengal 

• Until 1911, Kolkata was the capital of India due to its trade importance during the British Rule in India. Later, Delhi was made the capital of India
• In 2001 the city’s name was officially changed from Calcutta to Kolkata. A legacy of the Raj, Kolkata is one of the fewest cities in the world to have retained the tradition of Tram
• Though these are slowly rumbling into history, but Trams continue to fascinate many, including travelers from other cities
• Birla Planetarium in Kolkata is the largest planetarium in Asia and second largest in the world. Kolkata is the only city to have hand-pulled rickshaws in India