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Government & States

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands Had a Net Domestic Product of Rs 2.76 Lakh Per Person in 2023-24, Above the National Average, Across 836 Islands of Which 31 Are Inhabited

Government & States

Andhra Pradesh Has the Third-Longest Coastline Among Indian States at 1,053 Kilometres, About 30 Percent of the Country's Fish Output by Its Own Count, and a Capital Named in an Act of Parliament in 2026

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Arunachal Pradesh Holds 50,394 Megawatts of India's Exploitable Large Hydropower, 37.8 Per Cent of the National Total, and Reserves 59 of Its 60 Assembly Seats for Scheduled Tribes

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Assam Produced Half of India's Tea in 2024 and Is Home to 2,885 of India's 3,266 One-Horned Rhinos, in a State Whose Borders Were Last Changed in 2015

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Bihar Grew 8.6 Per Cent in 2024-25 Against India's 6.5, Has Reserved Half Its Panchayat Seats for Women Since 2006 and Holds the World Heritage Sites of Nalanda and Bodh Gaya

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Chandigarh, Whose Capitol Complex Joined the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2016, Is Both a Union Territory and the Shared Capital of Punjab and Haryana, With 86 Percent Literacy and a Per Capita Income of Rs 4.53 Lakh

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Chhattisgarh Is India's Only Producer of Tin Concentrate, Holds 18 Percent of Its Coal Resources and Is Estimated to Have Grown 8.1 Percent in 2025-26, in a State Formed on 1 November 2000

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Diu Meets Its Whole Daytime Power Demand With Solar, the Union Minister Said in 2025, in a Territory Formed on 26 January 2020 by Merging Two Union Territories

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Delhi's Economy Produces Rs 5.93 Lakh per Person, 2.4 Times India's Average, in a Territory That Is 97.5 Per Cent Urban and Holds Three UNESCO World Heritage Sites

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Goa's Economy Produced Rs 7.09 Lakh Per Resident in 2024-25, About Three Times India's Average, in a State That Has Existed Only Since 30 May 1987

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Gujarat Has the Longest Coastline of Any Indian State at 2,340.62 Kilometres and Produced Rs 3.71 Lakh Per Resident in 2024-25, 58 Per Cent Above the National Average

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Jammu and Kashmir Has the World's Highest Railway Arch Bridge, a 90-Seat Assembly Elected in 2024 After a Ten-Year Gap and a Government That Changes Its Capital Twice a Year

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Jharkhand Holds About 23 Per Cent of India's Geological Coal Resources, Reserves 28 of Its 81 Assembly Seats for Scheduled Tribes and Is One of Four States Where the Constitution Requires a Tribal Welfare Minister

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Karnataka Has 41 Percent of India's Software and Services Exports and a Per Capita Income 97 Percent Above the National Figure, in a State Joined Together in 1956 From Five Territories

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Ladakh Became a Union Territory on 31 October 2019 With Two Hill Councils Instead of an Assembly, Lies Between 2,900 and 5,900 Metres and Hosts a Telescope at 4,500 Metres

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An 1,868 Kilometre Undersea Cable Linked Eleven Lakshadweep Islands to Kochi on 3 January 2024, in a Union Territory of 32 Square Kilometres Where 94.8 Per Cent of Residents Are Scheduled Tribes

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Madhya Pradesh Had an Estimated 785 Tigers in 2022, More Than Any Other State, Is India's Only Diamond Producer and Has Three World Heritage Sites

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Maharashtra Accounts for 14 Per Cent of India's GDP, the Largest Share of Any State, and Its Legislature Meets in Both Mumbai and Nagpur

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Manipur, Where Forest Covers 75 Per Cent of the State, Holds the Last Natural Home of the Sangai Deer on the Floating Meadows of Loktak Lake and Has a Hill Areas Committee Provided for in the Constitution

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Meghalaya, Where Forest Covers 76 Per Cent of the Land, Three Tribal Councils Govern Nearly the Whole State and Children Take Their Mother's Clan Name

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Mizoram Had a Literacy Rate of 91.33 Per Cent at the 2011 Census, Third Highest of Any State or Union Territory, and Has Been a State Since 20 February 1987 With Article 371G Shielding Mizo Customary Law and Land

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Nagaland, the 16th State, Has 17 Districts, 60 Assembly Seats and an Article 371A Under Which Acts of Parliament on Naga Customary Law and Land Apply Only If Its Assembly Resolves That They Should

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Puducherry Is Four Former French Enclaves Spread Across Three Other States, Elected Its First Assembly in 1964, Votes in the Presidential Election and Reached a Per Capita Income of Rs 3,09,713 in 2024-25

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Rajasthan, India's Largest State at 3,42,239 Square Kilometres, Had More Installed Solar Capacity Than Any Other State in September 2026, 45,121 Megawatts, About a Quarter of the National Total

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Sikkim, Which Was Declared India's First 100 Per Cent Organic State in 2016, Has a 32-Seat Assembly With One Seat Voted On Only by Buddhist Monks and a Per Head Output More Than Three Times India's

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Tamil Nadu Has More Registered Manufacturing Units Than Any Other State, 41,221 in 2024-25, and the Second-Largest Economy at 9.4 Percent of India's GDP

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Telangana Has Rs 3.13 Lakh Crore in IT Exports and a Per Capita Income of Rs 4,18,931, Nearly Double India's, in the Newest of India's 28 States, Formed by Parliament on 2 June 2014

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Uttarakhand, Formed on 9 November 2000, Had a Per Capita GSDP of Rs 2,96,012 in 2024-25, About 26 Per Cent Above India's Figure, and Sends 5 Members to the Lok Sabha and 3 to the Rajya Sabha

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Uttar Pradesh, Home to Almost 200 Million People at the 2011 Census, Holds 80 Lok Sabha Seats and 31 Rajya Sabha Seats and Had a GSDP of Rs 29.78 Lakh Crore in 2024-25

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West Bengal Is Home to a UNESCO-Listed Festival, the Indian Part of the World's Largest Mangrove Forest and 42 Lok Sabha Seats, and Has Had No Upper House Since 1969