Indian states their capitals & CM

N
o
.
State/Union
teritory
Administrative
capital
Populatio
n
2011
Census
Lit
era
cy
Rat
e%
(20
11)
Year of
establish
ment
&
Governor
s
Chief
Minister
1
Andaman and
Nicobar Islands
Port Blair 379,944

1956

2 Andhra Pradesh Hyderabad 84,665,533 67.7
1956((E.S.L.
Narasimhan)
N Kirankumar
Reddy(Indian
National Congress)
3 Arunachal Pradesh Itanagar 1,382,611 67
1987(Genera
l Joginder
Jaswant
Singh)
Nabam Tuki(Indian
National Congress)
4 Assam Dispur 31,169,272 73.2
1975(Janaki
Ballabh
Patnaik)
Tarun
Gogoi*(Indian
National Congress)
5 Bihar Patna 103,804,637 63.8
1935(Devan
and Konwar)
Nitish
Kumar*(Janata Dal
(United))
6 Chandigarh Chandigarh
[c]
1,054,686

1966

7 Chhattisgarh Raipur 25,540,196 71
2000(Shekh
ar Dutt)
Raman
Singh*(Bharatiya
Janata Party)
8
Dadra and Nagar
Silvassa 342,853

1944

N
o
.
State/Union
teritory
Administrative
capital
Populatio
n
2011
Census
Lit
era
cy
Rat
e%
(20
11)
Year of
establish
ment
&
Governor
s
Chief
Minister
Haveli
9 Daman and Diu Daman 242,911

1987

10
National Capital
Territory of Delhi
Delhi 16,753,235 74.04 1952
Sheila Dixit(Indian
National Congress)
11 Goa Panaji
[d]
1,457,723 87.4
1961(Bharat
Vir
Wanchoo)
Manohar
Parrikar(Bharatiya
Janata Party)
12 Gujarat Gandhinagar 60,383,628 79.3
1960(Kamla
Beniwal)
Narendra
Modi(Bharatiya
Janata Party)
13 Haryana Chandigarh 25,353,081 76.6
1966(Jagann
ath Pahadia)
Bhupinder Singh
Hooda(Indian
National Congress)
14 Himachal Pradesh Shimla 6,856,509 83.8
1971(Urmila
Singh)
Prem Kumar
Dhumal(Bharatiya
Janata Party)
15
Jammu and
Kashmir
Srinagar (S)
Jammu (W)
12,548,926 68.7
1948(Narind
er Nath
Vohra)
Omar
Abdullah*(Jammu &
Kashmir National
Conference)
N
o
.
State/Union
teritory
Administrative
capital
Populatio
n
2011
Census
Lit
era
cy
Rat
e%
(20
11)
Year of
establish
ment
&
Governor
s
Chief
Minister
16 Jharkhand Ranchi 32,966,238 67.6
2000(Syed
Ahmed)
Arjun Munda*(BJP)
17 Karnataka
[e]
Bengaluru 61,130,704 75.6
1956(Hans
Raj
Bhardwaj)
Jagadish
Shettar(Bharatiya
Janata Party)
18 Kerala Thiruvananthapuram 33,387,677 93.9
1956(Hans
Raj
Bhardwaj)
Oommen
Chandy(Indian
National Congress)
19 Lakshadweep Kavaratti 64,429

20 Madhya Pradesh Bhopal 72,597,565 70.6
1956(Ram
Naresh
Yadav)
Shivraj Singh
Chauhan(Bharatiya
Janata Party)
21 Maharashtra
Mumbai
[g]

Nagpur (W/2nd)
[h]

112,372,972 82.9
1818(K.
Sankaranara
yanan)
1960
Prithviraj
Chavan(Indian
National Congress)
22 Manipur Imphal 2,721,756 79.8
1947(Gurbac
han Jagat)
Okram Ibobi
Singh(Indian
National Congress)
23 Meghalaya Shillong 2,964,007 75.5
1970(Ranjit
Shekhar
Mooshahary)
Mukul
Sangma*(Indian
National Congress)
N
o
.
State/Union
teritory
Administrative
capital
Populatio
n
2011
Census
Lit
era
cy
Rat
e%
(20
11)
Year of
establish
ment
&
Governor
s
Chief
Minister
24 Mizoram Aizawl 1,091,014 91.6
1972(Vakko
m
Purushotha
man)
Lal
Thanhawla(Indian
National Congress)
25 Nagaland Kohima 1,980,602 80.1
1963(Nikhil
Kumar)
Neiphiu
Rio*(Nagaland
People's Front)
26 Odisha Bhubaneswar 41,947,358 65.9
1948(Murlidh
ar
Chandrakant
Bhandare)
Naveen
Patnaik(Biju Janata
Dal)
27 Puducherry Puducherry 1,244,464

1954
N. Rangaswamy(All
India NR Congress)
28 Punjab Chandigarh 27,704,236 76.7
1966(Shivraj
Patil)
Prakash Singh
Badal*(Shiromani
Akali Dal)
29 Rajasthan Jaipur 68,621,012 67.1
1948(Margar
et Alva)
Ashok
Gehlot(Indian
National Congress)
30 Sikkim Gangtok
[k]
607,688 82.2
1975(Balmiki
Prasad
Singh)
Pawan Kumar
Chamling(Sikkim
Democratic Front)
N
o
.
State/Union
teritory
Administrative
capital
Populatio
n
2011
Census
Lit
era
cy
Rat
e%
(20
11)
Year of
establish
ment
&
Governor
s
Chief
Minister
31 Tamil Nadu Chennai
[l]
72,138,958 80.3
1688(Konijeti
Rosaiah)
Jayalalithaa(All
India Anna Dravida
Munnetra Kazhagam
32 Tripura Agartala 3,671,032 87.8
1956(Dnyan
deo
Yashwantrao
Patil)
Manik
Sarkar*(CPI(M))
33 Uttar Pradesh Lucknow 199,581,477 71.7
1937(Banwa
ri Lal Joshi)
Akhilesh
Yadav(Samajwadi
Party)
34 Uttarakhand Dehradun
[m]
10,116,752 79.6
2000(Aziz
Qureshi)
Vijay
Bahuguna(Indian
National Congress)
35 West Bengal Kolkata 91,347,736 77.1
1947(M.K.
Narayanan)
Mamata
Banerjee*(All India
Trinamool Congress)

Union Territories * Coalition government
Indian National Congress 12 Bharatiya Janata Party 7
Others 1

National Parties
Party Abbreviation Secretary-General / President
Trinamool Congress TMC Mamata Banerjee
Indian National Congress INC Sonia Gandhi
Bharatiya Janata Party BJP Nitin Gadkari
Bahujan Samaj Party BSP Mayawati
Communist Party of India CPI Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy
Nationalist Congress Party NCP Sharad Pawar
Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI(M) Prakash Karat
Samajwadi Party SP Mulayam Singh Yadav
Shiv Sena SS Bal Thackeray
Janata Dal (United) JDU Sharad Yadav