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Map	Name	ISO 3166-2 code[24][25]	Date of formation	Population	Area (km2)	Official language(s)[26]	Administrative capital	Largest city (if not the capital)	Population density (per km2)	Literacy Rate (%)	% of total population that is urban
1	Andhra Pradesh	AP	1953 Oct 1 (as Andhra State)	49,506,799	160,205	Telugu	HyderabadNote 1	Visakhapatnam	308	67.41%[27]	29.6
2	Arunachal Pradesh	AR	1987 Feb 20	1,382,611	83,743	English	Itanagar		17	66.95	20.8
3	Assam	AS	1912 Apr 1 (as Assam Province)	31,169,272	78,550	Assamese,Bengali, Bodo	Dispur	Guwahati	397	73.18	12.9
4	Bihar	BR	1936 Apr 1	103,804,637	99,200	Hindi, Bhojpuri,Magadhi,Maithili, Urdu	Patna		1,102	63.82	10.5
5	Chhattisgarh	CT	2000 Nov 1	25,540,196	135,194	Chattisgarhi,Hindi	Raipur (interim)[28]		189	71.04	20.1
6	Goa	GA	1987 May 30	1,457,723	3,702	Konkani	Panaji		394	87.40	62.2
7	Gujarat	GJ	1960 May 1	60,383,628	196,024	Gujarati, Hindi	Gandhinagar	Ahmedabad	308	79.31	37.4
8	Haryana	HR	1966 Nov 1	25,353,081	44,212	Hindi, Punjabi	Chandigarh (shared, Union Territory)	Faridabad	573	76.64	28.9
9	Himachal Pradesh	HP	1971 Jan 25	6,856,509	55,673	Hindi	Shimla		123	83.78	9.8
10	Jammu and Kashmir	JK	1947 Oct 26	12,548,926	222,236	Dogri, Kashmiri,Ladakhi, Urdu[29]	Srinagar (summer) Jammu (winter)		124	68.74	24.8
11	Jharkhand	JH	2000 Nov 15	32,966,238	74,677	Hindi	Ranchi	Jamshedpur	414	67.63	22.2
12	Karnataka	KA	1956 Nov 1	61,130,704	191,791	Kannada	Bangalore		319	75.60	34.0
13	Kerala	KL	1956 Nov 1	33,387,677	38,863	Malayalam	Thiruvananthapuram		859	93.91	26.0
14	Madhya Pradesh	MP	1947 Aug 15	72,597,565	308,252	Hindi	Bhopal	Indore	236	70.63	26.5
15	Maharashtra	MH	1960 May 1	112,372,972	307,713	Marathi	Mumbai		365	82.91	42.4
16	Manipur	MN	1972 Jan 21	2,721,756	22,347	Manipuri	Imphal		122	79.85	25.1
17	Meghalaya	ML	1972 Jan 21	2,964,007	22,720	English, Garo,Hindi, Khasi,Pnar	Shillong		132	75.48	19.6
18	Mizoram	MZ	1987 Feb 20	1,091,014	21,081	Mizo	Aizawl		52	91.58	49.6
19	Nagaland	NL	1963 Dec 1	1,980,602	16,579	English	Kohima	Dimapur	119	80.11	17.2
20	Odisha	OR	1912 Apr 1 (as Orissa Province)	41,947,358	155,820	Oriya	Bhubaneswar		269	73.45	15.0
21	Punjab	PB	1947 Aug 15 (as East Punjab)	27,704,236	50,362	Punjabi	Chandigarh (shared, Union Territory)	Ludhiana	550	76.68	33.9
22	Rajasthan	RJ	1950 Jan 26	68,621,012	342,269	Hindi	Jaipur		201	67.06	23.4
23	Sikkim	SK	1975 May 16	607,688	7,096	Nepali, Bhutia,Gurung, Lepcha,Limbu, Manggar,Newari, Sherpa,Sunwar, Tamang	Gangtok		86	82.20	11.1
24	Tamil Nadu	TN	1950 Jan 26 (asMadras)	72,138,958	130,058	Tamil	Chennai		480	80.33	44.0
25	Telangana	TG	2014 Jun 2	35,193,978[30]	114,840[30]	Telugu, Urdu	HyderabadNote 1		307 [31]	66.50%[31]	N/A
26	Tripura	TR	1972 Jan 21	3,671,032	10,492	Bengali, Tripuri	Agartala		350	87.75	17.1
27	Uttar Pradesh	UP	1902 Mar 22 (as United Provinces)	199,581,477	243,286	Hindi, Urdu[32]	Lucknow	Kanpur	828	69.72	20.8
28	Uttarakhand	UT	2000 Nov 9	10,116,752	53,483	Hindi, Sanskrit	Dehradun (interim)		189	79.63	25.7
29	West Bengal	WB	1947 Aug 15	91,347,736	88,752	Bengali, English,Nepali[33]	Kolkata		1,029	77.08	28.0

• ^Note 1 Andhra Pradesh was divided into two states, Telangana and a residual Andhra Pradesh on 2 June 2014.^[34][35][36] Hyderabad, located entirely within the borders of Telangana, is to serve as joint capital for both states for a period of time not exceeding ten years.^[37]

Union territories[edit]

Map	Name	ISO 3166-2 code[24][25]	Population	Official language	Capital	Population density (per km2)	Literacy Rate(%)	% of Total Population that is Urban
A	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	AN	379,944	English, Hindi	Port Blair	46	86.27	32.6
B	Chandigarh	CH	1,054,686	English, Hindi, Punjabi	Chandigarh	9,252	86.43	89.8
C	Dadra and Nagar Haveli	DN	342,853	English, Gujarati, Hindi,Marathi	Silvassa	698	77.65	22.9
D	Daman and Diu	DD	242,911	English, Gujarati, Hindi,Marathi	Daman	2169	87.07	36.2
E	Lakshadweep	LD	64,429	English, Malayalam	Kavaratti	2013	92.28	44.5
F	National Capital Territory of Delhi	DL	11,007,835	English, Hindi, Punjabi,Urdu	New Delhi	11,297	86.34	93.2
G	Puducherry	PY	1,244,464	Malayalam, Tamil,Telugu [38]	Pondicherry	2,598	86.55	66.6