How many states in India 2020

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How many states in India 2020? Students if you are preparing for competitive exam you should know about how many states in India, This is one of the general topics which we need to be aware of. This topic is a static general knowledge topic. India is the seventh largest country, There are 28 states and 8 union territories in India. India is a union of states, democratic, a republic with a parliamentary system of government. In the states, the Governor, as the representative of the President, is the head of Executive. Union Territories are regulated by the President through an administrator appointed by him/her. Until 6 August 2019, there were officially 28 states in India. But that number now has decreased by one to make 28 states after Jammu & Kashmir was permitted the status of a Union Territory with its legislature. In this space we are Discussing the Total 28 States & 8 UTs of India.

Total 28 States in India 2020: Check States and Capital of India

Let us have a look at How many states in India 2020. we have discussed The states and the capitals of the state on the below table. The 28 Indian States and their capitals are the following:-

S.NO	State	Capital	CM	Governor
1	Andhra Pradesh	Amaravati	YS Jagan Mohan Reddy	Biswa Bhusan Harichandan
2	Arunachal Pradesh	Itanagar	Pema Khandu	B. D. Mishra
3	Assam	Dispur	Sarbananda Sonowal	Jagdish Mukhi
4	Bihar	Patna	Nitish Kumar	Phagu Chauhan
5	Chhattisgarh	Raipur	Bhupesh Baghel	Sushri Anusuiya Uikey
6	Goa	Panaji	Pramod Sawant	Satya Pal Malik
7	Gujarat	Gandhinagar	Vijaybhai R. Rupani	Acharya Dev Vrat
8	Haryana	Chandigarh	Manohar Lal	Satyadev Narayan Arya
9	Himachal Pradesh	Shimla	Jairam Thakur	Bandaru Dattatraya
10	Jharkhand	Ranchi	Hemant Soren	Droupadi Murmu
11	Karnataka	Bengaluru	B. S. Yediyurappa	Vajubhai Vala
12	Kerala	Thiruvananthapuram	Pinarayi Vijayan	Arif Mohammed Khan
13	Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal	Shivraj Singh Chouhan	Anandiben Patel
14.	Maharashtra	Mumbai	Uddhav Thackeray	Bhagat Singh Koshyari
15	Manipur	Imphal	N. Biren Singh	Najma Heptulla
16	Meghalaya	Shillong	Conrad Sangma	Tathagata Roy
17	Mizoram	Aizawl	Zoramthanga	P.S. Sreedharan Pillai
18	Nagaland	Kohima	Neiphiu Rio	R. N. Ravi
19	Odisha	Bhubaneswar	Naveen Patnaik	Ganeshi Lal
20	Punjab	Chandigarh	Capt. Amarinder Singh	V.P. Singh Badnore
21	Rajasthan	Jaipur	Ashok Gehlot	Kalraj Mishra
22	Sikkim	Gangtok	Prem Singh Tamang	Ganga Prasad
23	Tamil Nadu	Chennai	Edappadi K. Palaniswami	Banwarilal Purohit
24	Telangana	Hyderabad	K Chandrasekhar Rao	Tamilisai Soundararajan
25	Tripura	Agartala	Biplab Kumar Deb	Ramesh Bais
26	Uttar Pradesh	Lucknow	Yogi Aditya Nath	Anandiben Patel
27	Uttarakhand	Dehradun	Trivendra Singh Rawat	Baby Rani Maurya
28	West Bengal	Kolkata	Mamata Banerjee	Jagdeep Dhankhar

How many Union Territories in India 2020

At Present, There are a total 8 Union Terrotories in India, Recently Jammu and Kashmir has been divided into two Union Territories (UT) of J&K and Ladakh. Let’s have a look on the list of Union Territories in India and their capitals.

S.NO	Union Territories	Capital	CM	Lt. Governor
1	Andaman and Nicobar Island	Port Blair	NA	D K Joshi
2	Chandigarh	Chandigarh	NA	V. P. Singh Badnore
3	Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	Silvassa	NA	Praful Patel
4	Delhi	Delhi	Arvind Kejriwal	Anil Baijal
5	Ladakh	NA	NA	Radha Krishna Mathur
6	Lakshadweep	Kavaratti	NA	Dineshwar Sharma
7	Jammu and Kashmir	NA	NA	Manoj Sinha
8	Puducherry	Pondicherry	V. Narayanasamy	Kiran Bedi

India Map of States

You can check the map of India which provides the total number of states and union territories in India and their capitals as of July 2020.

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Largest State in India- Check Largest States by Area

Rajasthan is the largest state in India by Area, It covers 342,239 km2 of land area. The total population of Rajasthan is 68548437. The second-largest state in India is Madhya Pradesh with a 308,245 Km2 area. We are providing you the list of states in terms of area in the following table:-

S. No.	State Name	Area (km2)
1	Rajasthan	342,239
2	Madhya Pradesh	308,245
3	Maharashtra	307,713
4	Uttar Pradesh	240,928
5	Gujarat	196,024
6	Karnataka	191,791
7	Andhra Pradesh	162,968
8	Odisha	155,707
9	Chhattisgarh	135,191
10	Tamil Nadu	130,058
11	Telangana	112,077
12	Bihar	94,163
13	West Bengal	88,752
14	Arunachal Pradesh	83,743
15	Jharkhand	79,714
16	Assam	78,438
17	Himachal Pradesh	55,673
18	Uttarakhand	53,483
19	Punjab	50,362
20	Haryana	44,212
21	Kerala	38,863
22	Meghalaya	22,429
23	Manipur	22,327
24	Mizoram	21,081
25	Nagaland	16,579
26	Tripura	10,486
27	Sikkim	7,096
28	Goa	3,702

Largest UT in India by Area

Let’s take a look at the union Territory, Jammu and Kashmir is the largest union territory in terms of area which covers 125,535 km² of land area. The list of union territories in terms of area is given in the follwing table:-

S. No.	Union Territory Name	Area (km2)
1	Jammu and Kashmir	125,535
2	Ladakh	96,701
3	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	8,249
4	Delhi	1,484
5	Dadra and Nagar Haveli & Daman and Diu	603
6	Puducherry	479
7	Chandigarh	114
8	Lakshadweep	32.62

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