List of States and Capitals of India
Please find below the list of states and union-territories (along with their capital) of India.
State – Capitals
- Andhra Pradesh – Hyderabad (Proposed Capital: Amaravati in Guntur district. See Note 1 below.)
- Arunachal Pradesh – Itanagar
- Assam – Dispur
- Bihar – Patna
- Goa – Panaji
- Gujarat – Gandhinagar
- Haryana – Chandigarh
- Himachal Pradesh – Shimla
- Jammu & Kashmir – Srinagar (Winter : Jammu)
- Karnataka – Bengaluru (Bangalooru)
- Kerala – Thiruvananthapuram
- Madhya Pradesh – Bhopal
- Maharashtra – Mumbai
- Manipur – Imphal
- Meghalaya – Shillong
- Mizoram – Aizawl
- Nagaland – Kohima
- Orissa – Bhubaneswar
- Punjab – Chandigarh
- Rajasthan – Jaipur
- Sikkim – Gangtok
- Tamil Nadu – Chennai
- Tripura – Agartala
- Uttar Pradesh – Lucknow
- West Bengal – Kolkata
- Chhattisgarh – Raipur
- Uttarakhand – Dehradun
- Jharkhand – Ranchi
- Telangana – Hyderabad (see Note 1 below)
(Note-1: From 2nd June, 2014, The State of Andhra Pradesh has been divided into Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Hyderabad will remain capital of both the resultant states for 10 years. The proposed capital for the state of Andhra Pradesh is Amaravati in Guntur district.)
Union Territories and National Capital Territory- Capitals
- Delhi (National Capital Territory of Delhi or NCT) – New Delhi *
- Andaman & Nicobar Islands – Port Blair
- Chandigarh – Chandigarh
- Dadra & Nagar Haveli – Silvasa
- Daman & Diu – Daman
- Lakshadweep – Kavaratti
- Puducherry – Puducherry
*Note 2: In 1991, the constitution vide the 69th amendment, made provisions to make Delhi a special Union Territory. It was declared that the former Union Territory of Delhi would be known as National Capital Territory.