States of India

      India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories. Telangana is newly created state that came into existence on 2 June 2014.

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      Andhra Pradesh
      Capital: Amravati
      Area: 1,60,205 Sq. Kms.
      It shares border with Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

      Arunachal Pradesh
      Capital: Itanagar
      Area: 83,743 km2
      It shares border with Assam in the south, Nagaland in the southeast, Burma/Myanmar in the east and Bhutan in the west.

      Assam
      Capital: Dispur
      Area: 78,550 km2
      It shares border with Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and Meghalaya.

      Bihar
      Capital: Patna
      Area: 94,163 km2
      It shares border with Uttar Pradesh in the west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West Bengal to the east, and Jharkhand to the south.

      Chattisgarh
      Capital: Raipur
      Area: 135,194 km2
      It shares border with Madhya Pradesh in northwest, Maharashtra in the west, Andhra Pradesh in the south, Orissa in the east, Jharkhand in the northeast and Uttar Pradesh in the north.

      Goa
      Capital: Panaji
      Area: 3,702 km2
      It shares border with Maharashtra in the north, Karnataka in the east and south, and Arabian Sea forms its western coast.

      Gujarat
      Capital: Gandhinagar
      Area: 196,024 km2
      It shares border with Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra.

      Haryana
      Capital: Chandigarh
      Area: 44,212 km2
      It shares border with Punjab, Himachal Pradesh in the north, and Rajasthan in the west and south.

      Himachal Pradesh

      Capital: Shimla
      Area: 56,019 km2
      It shares border with Jammu and Kashmir on north, Punjab on west and south-west, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on south, Uttarakhand on south-east and Tibet, China on the east.

      Jharkhand
      Capital: Ranchi
      Area: 74,677 km2
      It shares border with Bihar in the north, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh in the west, Orissa in the south, and West Bengal in the east.

      Karnataka
      Bangalore
      Capital: Area: 191,976 km2
      It shares border with Arabian Sea in the west, Goa in the northwest, Maharashtra in the north, Andhra Pradesh in the east, Tamil Nadu to the southeast, and Kerala to the southwest.

      Kerala
      Capital: Thiruvananthapuram
      (Trivandrum)
      Area: 38,863 km2
      It shares border with Karnataka in the north and Tamil Nadu in the south and east, and the Arabian sea in to the west.

      Madhya Pradesh
      Capital: Bhopal
      Area: 308,252 km2
      It shares border with Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan.

      Maharashtra
      Capital: Mumbai
      Area: 307,731 km2
      It shares border with Arabian Sea in the west, Gujarat and Dadra and Nagar Haveli in the northwest, Madhya Pradesh to the northeast, Chhattisgarh in the east, Karnataka to the south, Andhra Pradesh in the southeast, and Goa in the southwest.

      Manipur
      Capital: Imphal
      Area: 22,347 km2
      It shares border with Nagaland in the north, Mizoram in the south and Assam in the west and Myanmar in the east.

      Meghalaya
      Capital: Shillong
      Area: 22,720 km2
      It shares border with Assam in the north and Bangladesh in the south.

      Mizoram
      Capital: Aizawal
      Area: 22,081 km2
      It shares border with Tripura, Assam, Manipur, Bangladesh and Myanmar.

      Nagaland
      Capital: Kohima
      Area: 16,579 km2
      It shares border with Assam in the west, Arunachal Pradesh and part of Assam in the north, Burma in the east and Manipur in the south.

      Odisha
      Capital: Bhubaneshwar
      Area: 155,820 km2
      It shares border with Bay of Bengal in the east, Andhra Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand and West Bengal.

      Punjab
      Capital: Chandigarh
      Area: 50,362 km2
      It shares border with Pakistani province of Punjab in the west, Jammu and Kashmir in the north, Himachal Pradesh in the northeast, Haryana in the south and southeast and Rajasthan in the southwest.

      Rajasthan
      Capital: Jaipur
      Area: 342,269 km2
      It shares border with Pakistan in the west, Gujarat in the southwest, Madhya Pradesh in the southeast, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana in the northeast and Punjab in the north.

      Sikkim
      Capital: Gangtok
      Area: 7,096 km2
      Nepal in the west, the Tibet Autonomous Region of China in the north and the east and Bhutan in the southeast.

      Tamil Nadu
      Capital: Chennai
      Area: 130,058 km2
      It shares border with Puducherry, Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.

      Telangana
      Capital: Hyderabad
      Area: 112,077 km2
      It shares border with
      Telangana is bordered by the states of Maharashtra to the north, Chhattisgarh to the east, Karnataka to the west, and Andhra Pradesh to the east and south.

      Tripura
      Capital: Agartala
      Area: 10,491.69 km2
      It shares border with Bangladesh in the north, south, and west, Assam and Mizoram in the east.

      Uttar Pradesh
      Capital: Lucknow
      Area: 243,286 km2
      It shares border with Nepal in north, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh in the north-west, Haryana, Delhi and Rajasthan in the west, Madhya Pradesh in the south, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand in the south east and Bihar in the east.

      Uttarakhand
      Capital: Dehradun
      Area: 53,566 km2
      It shares border with China in the north, Nepal in the east, Uttar Pradesh in the south, Haryana in the west and Himachal Pradesh in the north west.

      West Bengal
      Capital: Kolkata
      Area: 88,7522 km2
      It shares border with Bangladesh in the east, Assam in the northeast, Sikkim and Bhutan, and Orissa in the southwest, Jharkhand and Bihar in the west, and Nepal in the northwest.

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