Indian States, UTs and Capitals: India is a vast country with rich history and culture. It is also a federal republic, meaning it is divided into states and union territories. Each state and union territory has its own capital city. The capital cities of India house the governments of their respective states and union territories. India is a union of 28 states and 8 union territories. States and union territories are subdivided into smaller administrative divisions and districts. The Constitution was adopted on November 26, 1949 and came into force on January 26, 1950. The boundaries of the Indian states are reorganized on a linguistic basis by the States Reorganization Act, 1956.
Through this article, we take a look at the Indian States and Union Territories, along with their capitals and Chief Ministers/Lieutenant Governors/Administrators.
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List of states and capitals of India
Below is the complete list of Indian states and their capitals, along with their chief ministers.
Andhra Pradesh
Capital: Amaravati
Chief Minister: Shri YS Jagan Mohan Reddy
Arunachal Pradesh
Capital: Itanagar
Chief Minister: Shri Pema Khandu
Assam
Capital: Dispur
Chief Minister: Shri Himanta Biswa Sarma
Bihar
Capital: Patna
Chief Minister: Shri Nitish Kumar
Chattisgarh
Capital: Raipur
Chief Minister: Shri Bhupesh Baghel
Gonna
Capital: Panaji
Chief Minister: Shri Pramod Sawant
gujarat
Capital: Gandhinagar
Chief Minister: Shri Bhupendra Patel
Haryana
Capital: Chandigarh
Chief Minister: Shri Manohar Lal Khattar
Himachal Pradesh
Capital: Shimla (summer), Dharamshala (winter)
Chief Minister: Shri Jairam Thakur
Jharkhand
Capital: Ranchi
Chief Minister: Shri Hemant Soren
karnataka
Capital: Bengaluru
Chief Minister: Sri Siddaramaiah
Kerala
Capital: Thiruvananthapuram
Chief Minister: Shri Pinarayi Vijayan
Madhya Pradesh
Capital: Bhopal
Chief Minister: Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Maharastra
Capital: Mumbai (summer), Nagpur (winter)
Chief Minister: Shri Uddhav Thackeray
Manipur
Capital: Imphal
Chief Minister: Shri N. Biren Singh
Meghalaya
Capital: Shillong
Chief Minister: Shri Conrad Kongkal Sangma
Mizoran
Capital: Aizawl
Chief Minister: Shri Pu Zoramthanga
Nagaland
Capital: Kohima
Chief Minister: Shri Neiphiu Rio
Odisha
Capital: Bhubaneshwar
Chief Minister: Shri Naveen Patnaik
Punjab
Capital: Chandigarh
Chief Minister: Shri Charanjit Singh Channi
Rajasthan
Capital: Jaipur
Chief Minister: Shri Ashok Gehlot
Sikkim
Capital: Gangtok
Chief Minister: Shri PS Golay
Tamilnadu
Capital: Madras
Chief Minister: Shri MK Stalin
Telangana
Capital: Hyderabad
Chief Minister: Shri K Chandrasekhar Rao
Tripura
Capital: Agartala
Chief Minister: Shri Biplab Kumar Deb
Uttar Pradesh
Capital: Lucknow
Chief Minister: Shri Yogi Adityanath
Uttarakhand
Capital: Bhararisain (summer), Dehradun (winter)
Chief Minister: Shri Pushkar Singh Dhami
west bengal
Capital: Calcutta
Chief Minister: Smt Mamata Banerjee
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List of Union Territories and Capitals
Below is the complete list of Union Territories and their capitals, along with their Chief Ministers/Lieutenant Governors/Administrators.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Capital: Port Blair
Lieutenant Governor: Shri Devendra Kumar Joshi
chandigarh
Capital: Chandigarh
Administrator: Shri Banwarilal Purohit
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
Capital: Daman
Administrator: Shri Praful Patel
Lakshadweep
Capital: Kavaratti
Administrator: Shri Praful Patel
Puducherry
Capital: Puducherry
Chief Minister: Shri N. Rangaswamy
Lieutenant Governor: Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan
National Capital Territory of Delhi
Capital: Delhi
Chief Minister: Shri Arvind Kejriwal
Lieutenant Governor: Shri Anil Baijal
Jammu and Kashmir
Capital: Srinagar (summer), Jammu (winter)
Lieutenant Governor: Shri Manoj Sinha
ladakh
Capital: Leh (summer), Kargil (winter)
Lieutenant Governor: Shri Radha Krishna Mathur
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List of states and UTs of India and their capitals
The Constitution of India is federal in nature but unitary in a method which means that the states of India have no right to secede from the union. Therefore, India has unitary features (like gubernatorial appointment, concurrent list, single citizenship, single constitution) and federal features (union list, state list, state elections, etc.). Therefore, it is quasi-federal.
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