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States and union territories of India

Index States and union territories of India

India is a federal union comprising 29 states and 7 union territories, for a total of 36 entities. [1]

212 relations: Administrative division, Administrative divisions of India, Agartala, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Ajmer, Ajmer State, Ajmer-Merwara, Amaravati, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Andhra State, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Assamese language, Autonomous administrative divisions of India, Ballari district, Bangalore, Belgaum district, Bengali language, Bhopal, Bhopal State, Bhopal State (1949–56), Bhubaneswar, Bhuj, Bidar, Bihar, Bijapur district, Karnataka, Bilaspur State (1950–54), Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh, Bombay State, British Raj, Central Zonal Council, Chandigarh, Chennai, Chhattisgarh, Coimbatore district, Constitution of India, Cooch Behar, Cooch Behar State, Coorg State, Cutch State, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Daman, Daman and Diu, De facto, Dehradun, Delhi, Dharamshala, Dharwad district, ..., Dimapur, Dispur, Dominion of India, East Punjab, Eastern States Union, Eastern Zonal Council, Enclave and exclave, English language, Faridabad, Federalism, Federated state, French India, Gairsain, Gandhinagar, Gangtok, Goa, Government of India, Gujarat, Gujarati language, Gulbarga, Gurung language, Guwahati, Gwalior, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Hindi, Hyderabad, Hyderabad State, Hyderabad State (1948–56), Imphal, India, Indian subcontinent, Indore, ISO 3166-2:IN, Itanagar, Jaipur, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, Kahlur, Kannada, Kanpur, Kanyakumari district, Karaikal, Karnataka, Kasaragod, Kasaragod taluk, Kavaratti, Kerala, Khasi language, Kiranti languages, Kodagu district, Kohima, Kokborok, Kolkata, Kollegal, Konkani language, Kutch State, Laccadive Islands, Lakshadweep, Lepcha language, Limbu language, List of adjectives and demonyms for states and territories of India, List of districts in India, List of Indian state and union territory name etymologies, List of Indian states by wildlife population, List of princely states of British India (alphabetical), List of states and union territories of India by area, List of states and union territories of India by population, List of states in India by past population, List of symbols of Indian states and territories, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Madhya Bharat, Madhya Pradesh, Madikeri, Madras State, Magar language, Maharashtra, Mahé, Puducherry, Malabar District, Malayalam, Manipur, Marathi language, Marathwada, Meghalaya, Meitei language, Mizo language, Mizoram, Mumbai, Mysore, Mysore State, Nagaland, Nagpur, Nagpur division, Naya Raipur, Nepali language, New Delhi, Newar language, North-Eastern Zonal Council, Northern Zonal Council, Odia language, Odisha, Panaji, Patiala, Patiala and East Punjab States Union, Patna, Pondicherry, Port Blair, President of India, Puducherry, Puducherry district, Punjab, Punjab, India, Punjabi language, Raichur, Raipur, Rajasthan, Rajkot, Rajpramukh, Rajputana, Ranchi, Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, Sanskrit, Santali language, Saurashtra (region), Saurashtra (state), Sherpa language, Shillong, Shimla, Sikkim, Sikkimese language, Silvassa, South Canara, Southern Zonal Council, Srinagar, State government, States Reorganisation Act, 1956, Sunwar language, Suzerainty, Tamang language, Tamil language, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Telugu language, Thiruvananthapuram, Travancore-Cochin, Tripura, Union territory, Urdu, Uttar Pradesh, Uttara Kannada, Uttarakhand, Vasco da Gama, Goa, Vehicle registration plates of India, Vindhya Pradesh, Visakhapatnam, West Bengal, Western Zonal Council, Yanaon, Zonal Council. Expand index (162 more) »

Administrative division

An administrative division, unit, entity, area or region, also referred to as a subnational entity, statoid, constituent unit, or country subdivision, is a portion of a country or other region delineated for the purpose of administration.

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Administrative divisions of India

The administrative divisions of India are subnational administrative units of India; they compose a nested hierarchy of country subdivisions.

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Agartala

Agartala 'আগরতলা (Bengali)' is the capital of the Indian state of Tripura as well as the second largest city in North-east India after Guwahati, both in municipal area and population.

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Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad, also known as Amdavad is the largest city and former capital of the Indian state of Gujarat.

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Aizawl

Aizawl (Mizo) is the capital of the state of Mizoram in India.

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Ajmer

Ajmer (अजमेर) is one of the major cities in the Indian state of Rajasthan and the centre of the eponymous Ajmer District.

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Ajmer State

Ajmer State was a separate State within the Union of India from 1950 to 1956 with Ajmer as its capital.

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Ajmer-Merwara

Ajmer-Merwara, also known as Ajmir Province and as Ajmer-Merwara-Kekri, is a former province of British India in the historical Ajmer region.

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Amaravati

Amaravati is the capital city of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

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Andaman and Nicobar Islands

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands, one of the seven union territories of India, are a group of islands at the juncture of the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea.

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Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh is one of the 29 states of India.

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Andhra State

Andhra State (IAST) was a state in India created 1953, from the Telugu-speaking northern districts of Madras State.

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Arunachal Pradesh

Arunachal Pradesh ("the land of dawn-lit mountains") is one of the 29 states of India and is the northeastern-most state of the country.

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Assam

Assam is a state in Northeast India, situated south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys.

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Assamese language

Assamese or Asamiya অসমীয়া is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language.

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Autonomous administrative divisions of India

There were several autonomous administrative divisions of India to which the central government has given varying degrees of autonomy within the state legislature.

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Ballari district

Ballari (pronounced) is a district in Karnataka state, India.

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Bangalore

Bangalore, officially known as Bengaluru, is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka.

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Belgaum district

Belgaum is a district in the state of Karnataka, India.

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Bengali language

Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia.

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Bhopal

Bhopal is the capital city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and the administrative headquarters of Bhopal district and Bhopal division.

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Bhopal State

Bhopal State (pronounced) was a tributary state in 18th-century India, a princely salute state with 19-gun salute in a subsidiary alliance with British India from 1818 to 1947, and an independent state from 1947 to 1949.

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Bhopal State (1949–56)

Bhopal was a state of India, which existed from 1949 to 1956.

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Bhubaneswar

Bhubaneswar, also spelt as Bhubaneshwar or Bhuvanēśvar, is the capital of the Indian state of Odisha.

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Bhuj

Bhuj is a Municipality and District Headquarter of Kutch District in the state of Gujarat, India.

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Bidar

Bidar also called as Karnatakada Kirita is a hill top city in the north-eastern part of Karnataka state in south India.

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Bihar

Bihar is an Indian state considered to be a part of Eastern as well as Northern India.

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Bijapur district, Karnataka

Bijapur district, officially known as Vijayapura district, is a district in the state of Karnataka in India.

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Bilaspur State (1950–54)

Bilaspur State was a state within the Union of India from 1950 to 1956 with Bilaspur town as its capital.

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Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh

Bilaspur is a city and a municipal council in Bilaspur district in the state of Himachal Pradesh, India.

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Bombay State

Bombay State was a large Indian state created at the time of India's Independence, with other regions being added to it in the succeeding years. Bombay Presidency (roughly equating to the present-day Indian state of Maharashtra, excluding South Maharashtra and Vidarbha) was merged with the princely states of the Baroda, Western India and Gujarat (the present-day Indian state of Gujarat) and Deccan States (which included parts of the present-day Indian states of Maharashtra and Karnataka. On November 1, 1956, Bombay State was re-organized under the States Reorganisation Act on linguistic lines, absorbing various territories including the Saurashtra and Kutch States, which ceased to exist. On May 1, 1960, Bombay State was dissolved and split on linguistic lines into the two states of Gujarat, with Gujarati speaking population and Maharashtra, with Marathi speaking population.

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British Raj

The British Raj (from rāj, literally, "rule" in Hindustani) was the rule by the British Crown in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947.

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Central Zonal Council

Central Zonal Council is a zonal council that comprises the states ofChhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand.

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Chandigarh

Chandigarh is a city and a union territory in India that serves as the capital of the two neighbouring states of Haryana and Punjab.

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Chennai

Chennai (formerly known as Madras or) is the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarh (translation: Thirty-Six Forts) is one of the 29 states of India, located in the centre-east of the country.

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Coimbatore district

Coimbatore District is a district in the Kongu Nadu region of the state of Tamil Nadu.

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Constitution of India

The Constitution of India is the supreme law of India.

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Cooch Behar

Cooch Behar is the district headquarters of the Cooch Behar District in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Cooch Behar State

Cooch Behar, also known as Koch Bihar, was a princely state ruled by Rajbanshi clans during the British Raj.

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Coorg State

Kodagu kingdom (c.1600 - 1834)Coorg Province (1834 - 1947) British India(1947 - 1950) Indian UnionCoorg State (1950 - 1956), Indian Union |common_name.

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Cutch State

Cutch, also spelled Kutch or Kachchh, was a relatively large Indian princely state during the British Raj.

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Dadra and Nagar Haveli

Dadra and Nagar Haveli (DNH in initials) is a union territory in Western India.

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Daman and Diu

Daman and Diu is a union territory in Western India.

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Daman, Daman and Diu

Daman is a city and a municipal council in Daman district in the Indian union territory of Daman and Diu.

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De facto

In law and government, de facto (or;, "in fact") describes practices that exist in reality, even if not legally recognised by official laws.

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Dehradun

Dehradun or Dehra Dun is the interim capital city of Uttarakhand, a state in the northern part of India.

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Delhi

Delhi (Dilli), officially the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT), is a city and a union territory of India.

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Dharamshala

Dharamshala (also spelled Dharamsala) is the second winter capital of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh and a municipal corporation in Kangra district.

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Dharwad district

Dharwad District is an administrative district of the state of Karnataka in southern India.

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Dimapur

Dimapur is the largest city in Nagaland, India.

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Dispur

Dispur is the capital of the state of Assam in India.

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Dominion of India

Between gaining independence from the United Kingdom on 15 August 1947 and the proclamation of a republic on 26 January 1950, India was an independent dominion in the British Commonwealth of Nations with king George VI as its head of state.

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East Punjab

East Punjab (known simply as Punjab from 1950) was a province and later a state of India from 1947 until 1966, consisting of the parts of the Punjab Province of British India that went to India following the partition of the province between India and Pakistan by the Radcliffe Commission in 1947.

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Eastern States Union

The Eastern States Union was a short-lived (1947–48) union of princely states in newly-independent India that gathered most of the princely states of the former Orissa Tributary States and Chhattisgarh States Agency in order to fill the vacuum of power created after the departure of the British and the wrapping up of the British Raj.

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Eastern Zonal Council

Eastern Zonal Council is a zonal council that comprises the states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, and West Bengal.

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Enclave and exclave

An enclave is a territory, or a part of a territory, that is entirely surrounded by the territory of one other state.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Faridabad

Faridabad is the largest city in the north Indian state of Haryana.

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Federalism

Federalism is the mixed or compound mode of government, combining a general government (the central or 'federal' government) with regional governments (provincial, state, cantonal, territorial or other sub-unit governments) in a single political system.

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Federated state

A federated state (which may also be referred to by various terms such as a state, a province, a canton, a land) is a territorial and constitutional community forming part of a federation.

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French India

French India, formally the Établissements français dans l'Inde ("French establishments in India"), was a French colony comprising geographically separate enclaves on the Indian subcontinent.

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Gairsain

Gairsain is a town and Nagar Panchayat in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand.

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Gandhinagar

Gandhinagar is the capital of the state of Gujarat in Western India.

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Gangtok

Gangtok is a city, municipality, the capital and the largest town of the Indian state of Sikkim.

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Goa

Goa is a state in India within the coastal region known as the Konkan, in Western India.

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Government of India

The Government of India (IAST), often abbreviated as GoI, is the union government created by the constitution of India as the legislative, executive and judicial authority of the union of 29 states and seven union territories of a constitutionally democratic republic.

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Gujarat

Gujarat is a state in Western India and Northwest India with an area of, a coastline of – most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula – and a population in excess of 60 million.

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Gujarati language

Gujarati (ગુજરાતી) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian state of Gujarat.

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Gulbarga

Gulbarga, officially known as Kalaburagi, is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka, India.

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Gurung language

Gurung (also Tamu Kyi, Devanagari:तमु क्यी) is spoken by the Gurung people in two dialects with limited mutual intelligibility.

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Guwahati

Guwahati (Pragjyotishpura in ancient Assam, Gauhati in the modern era) is the largest city in the Indian state of Assam and also the largest urban area in Northeast India.

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Gwalior

Gwalior is a major and the northern-most city in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and one of the Counter-magnet cities.

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Haryana

Haryana, carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1November 1966 on linguistic basis, is one of the 29 states in India.

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Himachal Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh (literally "snow-laden province") is a Indian state located in North India.

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Hindi

Hindi (Devanagari: हिन्दी, IAST: Hindī), or Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: मानक हिन्दी, IAST: Mānak Hindī) is a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language.

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Hyderabad

Hyderabad is the capital of the Indian state of Telangana and de jure capital of Andhra Pradesh.

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Hyderabad State

Hyderabad State was an Indian princely state located in the south-central region of India with its capital at the city of Hyderabad.

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Hyderabad State (1948–56)

Hyderabad State was a state in Independent India, formed after the accession of the princely state of Hyderabad into the Indian Union on 24 November 1949.

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Imphal

Imphal is the capital city of the Indian state of Manipur.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian subcontinent

The Indian subcontinent is a southern region and peninsula of Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate and projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.

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Indore

Indore is the most populous and the largest city in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

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ISO 3166-2:IN

ISO 3166-2:IN is the entry for India in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

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Itanagar

Itanagar() is the capital of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.

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Jaipur

Jaipur is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan in Northern India.

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Jammu

Jammu is the largest city in the Jammu Division and the winter capital of state of Jammu and Kashmir in India.

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Jammu and Kashmir

Jammu and Kashmir (ænd) is a state in northern India, often denoted by its acronym, J&K.

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Jamshedpur

Jamshedpur is the most populous urban agglomeration in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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Jharkhand

Jharkhand (lit. "Bushland" or The land of forest) is a state in eastern India, carved out of the southern part of Bihar on 15 November 2000.

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Kahlur

Bilaspur State or Kahlur was a princely state in the Punjab Province during the era of British India, ruled by a Hindu Rajput dynasty.

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Kannada

Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ) is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Kannada people in India, mainly in the state of Karnataka, and by significant linguistic minorities in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Kerala, Goa and abroad.

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Kanpur

Kanpur (formerly Cawnpore) is the 12th most populous city in India and the second largest city in the state of Uttar Pradesh after Lucknow.

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Kanyakumari district

Kanyakumari district is the southernmost district in Tamil Nadu state and mainland India.

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Karaikal

Karaikal (kāraikkāl) is a major port city of east coast of India and a municipality in Karaikal district in the Union Territory of Puducherry, India.

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Karnataka

Karnataka also known Kannada Nadu is a state in the south western region of India.

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Kasaragod

Kasaragod is a municipal town and the district headquarters of Kasaragod district of Kerala state in India.

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Kasaragod taluk

Kasaragod is a taluk which along with Hosdurg taluk, Manjeshwaram Taluk and Vellerikundu taluk constitute the Kasaragod district, Kerala, India.

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Kavaratti

Kavaratti is the capital of the Union Territory of Lakshadweep in India.

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Kerala

Kerala is a state in South India on the Malabar Coast.

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Khasi language

Khasi (Khasi: Ka Ktien Khasi) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Meghalaya state in India by the Khasi people.

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Kiranti languages

The Kiranti languages are a major family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in Nepal, Sikkim and Darjeeling Hills by the Kirati people.

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Kodagu district

Kodagu is an administrative district in Karnataka, India.

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Kohima

Kohima is the hilly capital city of India's north eastern state of Nagaland.

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Kokborok

Kok Borok is the native language of the Borok (Tripura) people of the Indian state of Tripura and neighbouring areas of Bangladesh.

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Kolkata

Kolkata (also known as Calcutta, the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Kollegal

Kollegala is one of the major taluks in the Chamrajnagar District of Karnataka State in the south of India.

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Konkani language

Konkani is an Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-European family of languages and is spoken along the South western coast of India.

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Kutch State

Kutch State was a state within the Republic of India from 1947 to 1956.

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Laccadive Islands

The Laccadive Islands or Cannanore Islands are one of the three island subgroups in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep, India.

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Lakshadweep

Lakshadweep (Lakshadīb), formerly known as the Laccadive, Minicoy, and Aminidivi Islands, is a group of islands in the Laccadive Sea, off the southwestern coast of India.

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Lepcha language

Lepcha language, or Róng language (Lepcha: ᰛᰩᰵ་ᰛᰵᰧᰶ; Róng ríng), is a Himalayish language spoken by the Lepcha people in Sikkim and parts of West Bengal, Nepal and Bhutan.

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Limbu language

Limbu (Limbu: ᤕᤠᤰᤌᤢᤱ ᤐᤠᤴ, yakthung pān) is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Limbu people of eastern Nepal and India (particularly Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Sikkim, Assam and Nagaland) as well as expatriate communities in Bhutan, Burma, Thailand, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Canada and the US.

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List of adjectives and demonyms for states and territories of India

Where an adjective is a link, the link is to the language or dialect of the same name.

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List of districts in India

A district (zilā) is an administrative division of an Indian state or territory.

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List of Indian state and union territory name etymologies

The Republic of India was constituted in 1947 as a union of states.

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List of Indian states by wildlife population

Bengal Tiger and Indian Elephant are endangered species which are protected by Project Tiger and Project Elephant programmes run by Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India.

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List of princely states of British India (alphabetical)

This is a list of Indian princely states, as they existed during the British raj prior to 1947.

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List of states and union territories of India by area

The following is a list of states and union territories of the Republic of India by area from largest to smallest according to the census of 2011.

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List of states and union territories of India by population

India is a union of 29 states and 7 union territories.

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List of states in India by past population

India is a union of twenty-nine states and seven union territories.

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List of symbols of Indian states and territories

This is a list of the symbols of the States and union territories of India.

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Lucknow

Lucknow is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and is also the administrative headquarters of the eponymous District and Division.

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Ludhiana

Ludhiana is a city and a municipal corporation in Ludhiana district in the Indian state of Punjab, and India's largest city north of Delhi, with an area of 310sq.

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Madhya Bharat

Madhya Bharat also known as Malwa Union, was an Indian state in west-central India, created on 28 May 1948 from twenty-five princely states which until 1947 had been part of the Central India Agency, with Jiwajirao Scindia as its Rajpramukh.

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Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh (MP;; meaning Central Province) is a state in central India.

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Madikeri

Madikeri is a hill station town in Madikeri taluk in Karnataka state, India.

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Madras State

Madras State was a state in the Republic of India.

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Magar language

Dhut magar (मगर भाषा Dhut magar bhasa) is a language spoken mainly in Nepal, Southern Bhutan, Darjeeling, India, and Sikkim, India, by the Magar people.

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Maharashtra

Maharashtra (abbr. MH) is a state in the western region of India and is India's second-most populous state and third-largest state by area.

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Mahé, Puducherry

Mahé, natively known as Mayyazhi, is a small town at the mouth of the Mahé River and is surrounded on all sides by the State of Kerala.

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Malabar District

Malabar District was an administrative district of Madras Presidency in British India and independent India's Madras State.

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Malayalam

Malayalam is a Dravidian language spoken across the Indian state of Kerala by the Malayali people and it is one of 22 scheduled languages of India.

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Manipur

Manipur is a state in Northeast India, with the city of Imphal as its capital.

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Marathi language

Marathi (मराठी Marāṭhī) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken predominantly by the Marathi people of Maharashtra, India.

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Marathwada

Marathwada (IPA:Marāṭhvāḍā) is a region of the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Meghalaya

Meghalaya is a state in Northeast India.

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Meitei language

Meitei (also Manipuri, Census of India, 2001, Meithei, Meetei, Meeʁteilon) is the predominant language and lingua franca in the southeastern Himalayan state of Manipur, in northeastern India.

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Mizo language

The Mizo language, or Mizo ṭawng, is a language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan family of languages, spoken natively by the Mizo people in the Mizoram state of India and Chin State in Burma.

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Mizoram

Mizoram is a state in Northeast India, with Aizawl as its capital city.

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Mumbai

Mumbai (also known as Bombay, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Mysore

Mysore, officially Mysuru, is the third most populous city in the state of Karnataka, India.

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Mysore State

Mysore State was a separate state within the Union of India from 1948 until 1956 with Mysore as its capital.

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Nagaland

Nagaland is a state in Northeast India.

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Nagpur

Nagpur is the winter capital, a sprawling metropolis, and the third largest city of the Indian state of Maharashtra after Mumbai and Pune.

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Nagpur division

Nagpur Division is one of six administrative divisions of Maharashtra State in India.

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Naya Raipur

Naya Raipur is a city located between National Highways NH-53 and NH-30, about 17 km south-east of the current capital Raipur; Swami Vivekananda Airport separates the old and new cities.

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Nepali language

Nepali known by endonym Khas-kura (खस कुरा) is an Indo-Aryan language of the sub-branch of Eastern Pahari.

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New Delhi

New Delhi is an urban district of Delhi which serves as the capital of India and seat of all three branches of Government of India.

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Newar language

Newar or Newari, also known as Nepal Bhasa (नेपाल भाषा), is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Newar people, the indigenous inhabitants of Nepal Mandala, which consists of the Kathmandu Valley and surrounding regions in Nepal.

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North-Eastern Zonal Council

North-Eastern Zonal Council is a zonal council that comprises the Northeast India states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura.

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Northern Zonal Council

Northern Zonal Council is a zonal council that comprises the states and union territories of Chandigarh,National Capital Territory of Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, and Rajasthan.

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Odia language

Odia (ଓଡ଼ିଆ) (formerly romanized as Oriya) is a language spoken by 4.2% of India's population.

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Odisha

Odisha (formerly Orissa) is one of the 29 states of India, located in eastern India.

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Panaji

Panaji also known as Panjim, Pangim) is the capital of the Indian state of Goa and the headquarters of North Goa district. It lies on the banks of the Mandovi River estuary in the Ilhas de Goa sub-district (taluka). With a population of 114,759 in the metropolitan area, Panjim is Goa's largest Urban agglomeration, ahead of Margão and Vasco da Gama. Panjim has terraced hills, concrete buildings with balconies and red-tiled roofs, churches, and a riverside promenade. There are avenues lined with gulmohar, acacia and other trees. The Baroque Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Church is located overlooking the main square known as Praça da Igreja. Panjim has been selected as one of hundred Indian cities to be developed as a smart city under the Smart Cities Mission. This city of stepped streets and a seven kilometre long promenade was built on a planned grid system after the Portuguese relocated the capital form Velha Goa in the 17th century. It was elevated from a town to a city on March 22, 1843 making it the oldest civic institution in Asia (175 years).

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Patiala

Patiala is a city in southeastern Punjab, northwestern India.

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Patiala and East Punjab States Union

The Patiala and East Punjab States Union (PEPSU) was a state of India uniting eight princely states between 1948 and 1956.

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Patna

Patna is the capital and largest city of the state of Bihar in India.

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Pondicherry

Pondicherry (or; French: Pondichéry) is the capital city and the largest city of the Indian union territory of Puducherry.

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Port Blair

Port Blair is the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a union territory of India situated in the Bay of Bengal.

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President of India

The President of the Republic of India is the head of state of India and the commander-in-chief of the Indian Armed Forces.

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Puducherry

Puducherry (literally New Town in Tamil), formerly known as Pondicherry, is a union territory of India.

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Puducherry district

Puducherry district, formerly Pondicherry district is one of the four districts of the union territory of Puducherry in southern India.

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Punjab

The Punjab, also spelled Panjab (land of "five rivers"; Punjabi: پنجاب (Shahmukhi); ਪੰਜਾਬ (Gurumukhi); Πενταποταμία, Pentapotamia) is a geographical and cultural region in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of eastern Pakistan and northern India.

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Punjab, India

Punjab is a state in northern India.

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Punjabi language

Punjabi (Gurmukhi: ਪੰਜਾਬੀ; Shahmukhi: پنجابی) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by over 100 million native speakers worldwide, ranking as the 10th most widely spoken language (2015) in the world.

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Raichur

Raichur is a city municipality in the district of Raichur in the South Indian state of Karnataka.

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Raipur

Raipur is a city in Raipur district in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh.

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Rajasthan

Rajasthan (literally, "Land of Kings") is India's largest state by area (or 10.4% of India's total area).

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Rajkot

Rajkot (Rājkot) is the fourth-largest city in the state of Gujarat, India, after Ahmedabad, Surat and Vadodara.

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Rajpramukh

Rajpramukh was an administrative title in India which existed from India's independence in 1947 until 1956.

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Rajputana

Rājputāna (Rajasthani/राजपूताना), (راجپُوتانہ), meaning “Land of the Rajputs”, was a region in India that included mainly the present-day Indian state of Rajasthan rajput are 10 percent in rajasthan mostly mp and mla of rajasthan are of rajput community after gurjar and meena it is the 3rd largest populated community in rajasthan arat and some adjoining areas of Sindh in modern-day southern Pakistan.

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Ranchi

Ranchi is the capital of the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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Rewa, Madhya Pradesh

Rewa is a city in the north-eastern part of Madhya Pradesh state in India.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.

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Santali language

Santali (Ol Chiki:; Eastern Nagari: সাঁওতালি) is a language in the Munda subfamily of Austroasiatic languages, related to Ho and Mundari, spoken mainly in the Indian states of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.

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Saurashtra (region)

Saurashtra, also known as Sorath or Kathiawar, is a peninsular region of Gujarat, India, located on the Arabian Sea coast.

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Saurashtra (state)

Saurashtra, also known as United State of Kathiawar, was a separate, western State within the Union of India from 1948 until 1956, on Saurashtra alias Kathiawar peninsula, with Rajkot as its capital, on territory now part of Gujarat state.

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Sherpa language

Sherpa (also Sharpa, Xiaerba, Sherwa) is a language spoken in Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim, mainly by the Sherpa community.

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Shillong

Shillong (Khasi: Shillong) is a hill station in the northeastern part of India and the capital of Meghalaya, which means "The Abode of Clouds" and is one of the smallest states in India.

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Shimla

Shimla, also known as Simla, is the capital and the largest city of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

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Sikkim

Sikkim is a state in Northeast India.

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Sikkimese language

The Sikkimese language, also called "Sikkimese Tibetan", "Bhutia", "Drenjongké" ("Rice Valley language"), Dranjoke, Denjongka, Denzongpeke, and Denzongke, belongs to the Southern Tibetic languages.

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Silvassa

Silvassa; is the capital of the Indian Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli.

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South Canara

South Canara was a district of the Madras Presidency of British India, located at.

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Southern Zonal Council

Southern Zonal Council is a zonal council that comprises the states and union territories of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, and Telangana.

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Srinagar

Srinagar is the largest city and the summer capital of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

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State government

A state government is the government of a country subdivision in a federal form of government, which shares political power with the federal or national government.

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States Reorganisation Act, 1956

The States Reorganisation Act, 1956 was a major reform of the boundaries of India's states and territories, organising them along linguistic lines.

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Sunwar language

Sunuwar, or Kõinch (other spellings are Koinch and Koincha), is a Kiranti language spoken in Nepal by the Sunuwar people.

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Suzerainty

Suzerainty (and) is a back-formation from the late 18th-century word suzerain, meaning upper-sovereign, derived from the French sus (meaning above) + -erain (from souverain, meaning sovereign).

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Tamang language

Tamang (Devanagari: तामाङ; tāmāng) is a term used to collectively refer to a dialect cluster spoken mainly in Nepal, Sikkim, West Bengal (Mainly Darjeeling Districts - पश्चिम बङ्गाल राज्यको दार्जीलिङ जिल्लाको बिभिन्न भूभाग), some parts of Assam and North East Region.

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Tamil language

Tamil (தமிழ்) is a Dravidian language predominantly spoken by the Tamil people of India and Sri Lanka, and by the Tamil diaspora, Sri Lankan Moors, Burghers, Douglas, and Chindians.

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Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu (• tamiḻ nāḍu ? literally 'The Land of Tamils' or 'Tamil Country') is one of the 29 states of India.

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Telangana

Telangana is a state in the south of India.

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Telugu language

Telugu (తెలుగు) is a South-central Dravidian language native to India.

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Thiruvananthapuram

Thiruvananthapuram, also known as Trivandrum, is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Kerala.

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Travancore-Cochin

Travancore-Cochin or Thiru-Kochi was a short-lived state of India (1949–1956).

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Tripura

Tripura 'ত্রিপুরা (Bengali)' is a state in Northeast India.

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Union territory

A union territory is a type of administrative division in the Republic of India.

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Urdu

Urdu (اُردُو ALA-LC:, or Modern Standard Urdu) is a Persianised standard register of the Hindustani language.

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Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh (IAST: Uttar Pradeś) is a state in northern India.

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Uttara Kannada

Uttara Kannada (also known as North Canara) is a district in the Indian state of Karnataka.

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Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand, officially the State of Uttarakhand (Uttarākhaṇḍ Rājya), formerly known as Uttaranchal, is a state in the northern part of India.

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Vasco da Gama, Goa

Vasco da Gama, often shortened to Vasco, is the largest city in the state of Goa on the west coast of India.

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Vehicle registration plates of India

All motorised road vehicles in India are tagged with a registration or license number.

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Vindhya Pradesh

Vindhya Pradesh was a former state of India.

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Visakhapatnam

Visakhapatnam (also known as Vizag and Waltair is the largest city and the financial capital of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The city is the administrative headquarters of Visakhapatnam district and the Eastern Naval Command of the Indian Navy. Its geographical location is amidst the Eastern Ghats and the coast of the Bay of Bengal. It is the most populous city in the state with a population of 2,035,922 as of 2011, making it the 14th largest city in the country. It is also the 9th most populous metropolitan area in India with a population of 5,340,000. With an output of $43.5 billion, Visakhapatnam is the ninth-largest contributor to India's overall gross domestic product as of 2016. Visakhapatnam's history stretches back to the 6th century BCE, when it was considered a part of the Kalinga Kingdom, and later ruled by the Vengi, the Pallava and Eastern Ganga dynasties. Archaeological records suggest that the present city was built around the 11th and 12th centuries with control over the city fluctuating between the Chola Dynasty and the Gajapati Kingdom, until its conquest by the Vijayanagara Empire in the 15th century. Conquered by the Mughals in the 16th century, European powers eventually set up trading interests in the city, and by the end of the 18th century it had come under French rule. Control passed to the British in 1804 and it remained under British colonial rule until India's independence in 1947. The city is home to the oldest shipyard and the only natural harbour on the east coast of India. Visakhapatnam Port is the fifth-busiest cargo port in India, and the city is home to the headquarters of the Indian Navy's Eastern Command. Visakhapatnam is a major tourist destination and is particularly known for its beaches. It is referred to by many nicknames such asThe City of Destiny and The Jewel of the East Coast. It has been selected as one of the Indian cities to be developed as a smart city under the Smart Cities Mission. As per the Swachhta Sarvekshan rankings of 2017, it is the third cleanest city in India.

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West Bengal

West Bengal (Paśchimbāṅga) is an Indian state, located in Eastern India on the Bay of Bengal.

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Western Zonal Council

Western Zonal Council is a zonal council comprising the states of Goa, Gujarat, Maharashtra and the Union Territories of Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli.

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Yanaon

Yanaon or Yanam was a French colony between 1731 and 1954.

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Zonal Council

Zonal Councils are advisory councils and are made up of the states of India that have been grouped into five zones to foster cooperation among them.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_and_union_territories_of_India

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