States & Territories
India is a Sovereign, Secular, Democratic Republic with a Parliamentary system of Government. It is made up of a number of states. The President of India is the the constitutional head of the Executive of the country. Each state has a Governor, who represents the President, and is the head of state Executive.
The Central government is an elected body consisting of the upper and the lower houses. The governance in the states is similar to that of the center. India consists of 28 states and 8 Union Territories. The President administers the Union Territories through an administrator appointed by the President (except Delhi, Jammu & Kashmir and Puducherry, which have their own elected legislatures).
Here is a list of all the states in India
- Andhra Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh
- Assam
- Bihar
- Chhattisgarh
- Goa
- Gujarat
- Haryana
- Himachal Pradesh
- Jharkhand
- Karnataka
- Kerala
- Madhya Pradesh
- Maharashtra
- Manipur
- Meghalaya
- Mizoram
- Nagaland
- Odisha
- Punjab
- Rajasthan
- Sikkim
- Tamil Nadu
- Telangana
- Tripura
- Uttarakhand
- Uttar Pradesh
- West Bengal
Union Territories
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Chandigarh
- Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
- Delhi (National Capital Territory)
- Jammu and Kashmir
- Ladakh
- Lakshadweep
- Puducherry
MAP of India, showing the states, capitals and Union Territories
