List of Indian States and Union Territories

State Capital Area Population Official Languages LargestCities Districts /Admin divisions Population Density Literacy Rate% Urban Pop. % Sex Ratio Estb Year Andhra Pradesh Hyderabad 275,045 km2 84,655,533 Telugu Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, Guntur, Warangal 23 308 /km2 67.66 33.49 992 1956 Arunachal Pradesh Itanagar 83,743 km2 1,382,611 English Itanagar 17 17 /km2 66.95 22.67 920 1987 Assam Dispur 78,438 km2 31,169,272 Assamese Guwahati, Silchar, Dibrugarh, Nagaon 27 397 /km2 73.18 14.08 954 1975 Bihar Patna 94,163 km2 103,804,637 Hindi Patna, Gaya, Bhagalpur, Muzaffarpur, Biharsharif 38 1,102 /km2 63.82 11.30 916 1935 Chhattisgarh Raipur 135,191 km2 25,540,196 Chhattisgarhi Raipur, Bhilai Nagar, Korba, Bilaspur, Durg 27 189 /km2 71.04 23.24 991 2000 Goa Panaji 3,702 km2 1,457,723 Konkani Panaji 2 394 /km2 87.4 62.17 968 1961 Gujarat Gandhinagar 196,024 km2 60,383,628 Gujarati Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Bhavnagar 33 308 /km2 79.31 42.58 918 1960 Haryana Chandigarh 44,212 km2 25,353,081 Haryanvi Faridabad, Gurgaon, Rohtak, Hisar, Panipat 21 573 /km2 76.64 24.25 877 1966 Himachal Pradesh Shimla 55,673 km2 6,856,509 Hindi Shimla 12 123 /km2 83.78 10.04 974 1971 Jammu and Kashmir Srinagar (summer), Jammu (winter) 222,236 km2 12,548,926 Urdu Srinagar, Jammu, Anantnag 22 56 /km2 68.74 27.21 883 1948 Jharkhand Ranchi 79,714 km2 32,966,238 Hindi Dhanbad, Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Bokaro Steel, Mango 24 414 /km2 67.63 24.05 947 2000 Karnataka Bengaluru 191,791 km2 61,130,704 Kannada Bangalore, Hubli and Dharwad, Mysore, Gulbarga, Belgaum 30 319 /km2 75.6 38.57 968 1956 Kerala Trivandrum 38,863 km2 33,387,677 Malayalam Trivandrum, Kochi, Kozhikode, Kollam, Thrissur 14 859 /km2 93.91 47.72 1084 1956 Madhya Pradesh Bhopal 308,245 km2 72,597,565 Hindi Indore, Bhopal, Jabalpur, Gwalior, Ujjain 50 236 /km2 70.63 27.63 930 1956 Maharashtra Mumbai 307,713 km2 112,372,972 Marathi Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Thane, Pimpri and Chinchwad 35 365 /km2 82.91 45.23 946 1960 Manipur Imphal 22,327 km2 2,721,756 Meiteilon (Manipuri) Imphal 9 122 /km2 79.85 20.21 987 1947 Meghalaya Shillong 22,429 km2 2,964,007 English Shillong 11 132 /km2 75.48 20.08 986 1970 Mizoram Aizawl 21,081 km2 1,091,014 Mizo Aizawl 8 52 /km2 91.58 51.51 975 1972 Nagaland Kohima 16,579 km2 1,980,602 English Dimapur 11 119 /km2 80.11 28.97 931 1963 Odisha Bhubaneswar 155,707 km2 41,947,358 Oriya Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Brahmapur Town, Raurkela, Puri Town 30 269 /km2 73.45 16.68 978 1948 Punjab Chandigarh 50,362 km2 27,704,236 Punjabi Ludhiana, Amritsar, Jalandhar, Patiala, Bathinda 22 550 /km2 76.68 37.49 893 1966 Rajasthan Jaipur 342,239 km2 68,621,012 Hindi Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota, Bikaner, Ajmer 33 201 /km2 67.06 24.89 926 1948 Sikkim Gangtok 7,096 km2 607,688 Nepali Gangtok 4 86 /km2 82.2 24.97 889 1975 Tamil Nadu Chennai 130,058 km2 72,138,958 Tamil Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai, Tiruchirappalli, Salem 32 555 /km2 80.33 48.45 995 1969 Tripura Agartala 10,486 km2 3,671,032 Bengali and Kokborok Agartala 8 350 /km2 87.75 26.18 961 1956 Uttar Pradesh Lucknow 240,928 km2 199,581,477 Hindi Lucknow, Kanpur, Ghaziabad, Agra, Meerut 75 828 /km2 69.72 22.28 908 1937 Uttarakhand Dehradun 53,483 km2 10,116,752 Hindi Dehradun, Hardwar, Haldwani and Kathgodam, Rudrapur 13 189 /km2 79.63 30.55 963 2000 West Bengal Kolkata 88,752 km2 91,347,736 Bengali Kolkata, Haora, Durgapur, Asansol, Siliguri 19 1,029 /km2 77.08 31.89 947 1947 Union Territories Capital Area Population Official Languages LargestCities Districts /Admin divisions Population Density Literacy Rate% Urban Pop. % Sex Ratio Estb Year Andaman and Nicobar Islands Port Blair 8,249 km2 379,944 English Port Blair 3 46 /km2 86.27 35.67 878 1956 Chandigarh Chandigarh 114 km2 1,054,686 Punjabi Chandigarh 1 9,252 /km2 86.43 97.25 818 1966 Dadar and Nagar Haveli Silvassa 491 km2 342,853 English Silvassa 1 698 /km2 77.65 46.62 775 1944 Daman and Diu Daman 112 km2 242,911 Konkani, Marathi and Gujarati Daman 2 2,169 /km2 87.07 75.16 618 1987 Delhi Delhi 11,297 km2 16,753,235 Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu Delhi 9 11,297 /km2 86.34 97.50 866 1952 Lakshadweep Kavaratti 32 km2 64,429 English Kavaratti 1 2,013 /km2 92.28 78.08 946 Pondicherry Pondicherry 479 km2 1,244,464 Tamil, English Ozhukarai, Puducherry 4 2598 /km2 86.55 68.31 1038 1954