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Taj Mahal
A white marble mausoleum complex in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, the Taj Mahal is one of the new Seven Wonders of the World.
List of Indian State and Union Territory Capitals
This is a list of the capital cities of the 28 states and 8 union territories (administrative units partly or wholly governed by the union government) in India, ordered alphabetically by state. The list also provides the population for each capital city based on the most recent census conducted in India (2011).
Capitals of Indian states
| capital | state | population of capital (2011) |
|---|---|---|
| 1Amaravati was proposed as the capital city in 2014, when a portion of Andhra Pradesh was carved off to form the state of Telangana. It officially became the capital of Andhra Pradesh in 2024. | ||
| Amaravati1 | Andhra Pradesh | 140,000 (figure from 2018) |
| Itanagar | Arunachal Pradesh | 59,490 |
| Dispur | Assam | 534,872 |
| Patna | Bihar | 1,684,222 |
| Raipur | Chhattisgarh | 1,010,433 |
| Panaji | Goa | 40,017 |
| Gandhinagar | Gujarat | 206,167 |
| Chandigarh (city) | Haryana | 960,787 |
| Shimla | Himachal Pradesh | 169,578 |
| Ranchi | Jharkhand | 1,073,427 |
| Bengaluru | Karnataka | 8,443,675 |
| Thiruvananthapuram | Kerala | 743,691 |
| Bhopal | Madhya Pradesh | 1,798,218 |
| Mumbai | Maharashtra | 12,478,447 |
| Imphal | Manipur | 268,243 |
| Shillong | Meghalaya | 143,229 |
| Aizawl | Mizoram | 293,416 |
| Kohima | Nagaland | 99,039 |
| Bhubaneshwar | Odisha | 843,402 |
| Chandigarh (city) | Punjab | 960,787 |
| Jaipur | Rajasthan | 3,046,163 |
| Gangtok | Sikkim | 100,286 |
| Chennai | Tamil Nadu | 4,646,732 |
| Hyderabad | Telangana | 3,943,323 |
| Agartala | Tripura | 400,004 |
| Dehradun | Uttarakhand | 569,578 |
| Lucknow | Uttar Pradesh | 2,817,105 |
| Kolkata | West Bengal | 4,486,679 |
Capitals of Indian union territories
| capital | union territory1 | population of capital (2011) |
|---|---|---|
| 1Union territories are administrative units partly or wholly governed by the union government of India. The president of India exercises administrative authority over them through appointed officials known as administrators or lieutenant governors. Three union territories—Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, and Puducherry—have government frameworks similar to those of the states. They have legislative assemblies with directly elected members and are represented in the Rajya Sabha (upper house of India’s bicameral Parliament). | ||
| Sri Vijaya Puram | Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 108,058 |
| Chandigarh (city) | Chandigarh | 960,787 |
| Daman | Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu | 44,282 |
| Delhi | Delhi (also called National Capital Territory) | 16,753,235 |
| Srinagar (summer capital) and Jammu (winter capital) | Jammu and Kashmir | 1,180,570 and 502,197, respectively |
| Leh | Ladakh | 30,870 |
| Kavaratti | Lakshadweep | 11,210 |
| Puducherry (city) | Puducherry | 244,377 |
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