List of Indian States and UTs- Capital, Statehood Day, Bordering States and Countries, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha seats, No of Districts

At present, there are 28 States and 8 Union Territories in India. On 31 October 2019, the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir was bifurcated into two Union Territories- UT of Jammu and Kashmir and UT of Ladakh. In January 2020, the two union territories- Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu were merged to form a single Union Territory.

President administers the Union Territory through an administrator appointed by him. In states, President appoints Governor under his warrant and seal. The governor is the head of the State Executive.

List of All States in India (As of July 2023)

State (Capital)	Statehood	Bordering States and countries	Chief Minister	Governor	Lok Sabha seats; Rajya Sabha seats	No. of Districts	Assembly seats
Andhra Pradesh (Amravati)	1 November 1956	Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Telangana	Y S Jaganmohan Reddy	Justice (Retd.) S. Abdul Nazeer	25; 11	26	Bicameral; Assembly-175 Council- 58
Arunachal Pradesh (Itanagar)	20 February 1987 (became a UT on 21 January 1972)	Assam, Nagaland, Bhutan, Myanmar and China	Pema Khandu	Lt. General Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik	2; 1	26	Unicameral; 60
Assam (Dispur)	26 January 1950	Bhutan, Bangladesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram, West Bengal, Nagaland	Himanta Biswa Sarma	Gulab Chand Kataria	14; 7	31	Unicameral; 126
Bihar (Patna)	26 January 1950 (formed on 22 March 1912)	Uttar Pradesh, Nepal, West Bengal and Jharkhand	Nitish Kumar	Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar	40; 16	38	Bicameral; Assembly- 243 Council- 75
Chhattisgarh (Raipur)	1 November 2000 (carved out of Madhya Pradesh)	Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Odisha, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh	Bhupesh Bhagel	Biswa Bhusan Harichandan	11; 5	33	Unicameral; 90+1 seats
Goa (Panaji)	30 May 1987	Karnataka and Maharashtra	Pramod Sawant	P S Sreedharan Pillai	2; 1	2	Unicameral; 40
Gujarat (Gandhinagar)	1 May 1960	Rajasthan, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Pakistan	Bhupendra Patel	Acharya Devvrat	26; 11	33	Unicameral; 182
Haryana (Chandigarh)	1 November 1966	Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan	Manohar Lal Khattar	Bandaru Dattatreya	10; 5	22	Unicameral; 90
Himachal Pradesh (Winter capital- Dharamshala; Summer Capital- Shimla)	25 January 1971 (became a UT on 1 November 1956)	Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Haryana, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Tibet	Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu	Shiv Pratap Shukla	4; 3	12	Unicameral; 68
Jharkhand (Ranchi)	15 November 2000 (carved out of Bihar)	Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and West Bengal	Hemant Soren	C.P. Radhakrishnan	14; 6	24	Unicameral; 81
Karnataka (Bengaluru)	1 November 1956 (as Mysore state)	Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala	Shri Siddaramaiah	Thawarchand Gehlot	28; 12	31	Bicameral; Assembly- 224 Council- 75
Kerala (Thiruvananthapuram)	1 November 1956	Karnataka and Tamil Nadu	Pinarayi Vijayan	Arif Mohammad Khan	20; 9	14	Unicameral; 141
Madhya Pradesh (Bhopal)	1 November 1956	Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Maharashtra	Shivraj Singh Chauhan	Mangubhai Chaganbhai Patel	29; 11	52	Unicameral; 230
Maharashtra (Mumbai)	1 May 1960	Karnataka, Goa, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh	Eknath Shinde	Ramesh Bais	48; 19	36	Bicameral; Assembly- 288 Council- 78
Manipur (Imphal)	21 January 1972 (On 15 October 1949 merged with India)	Nagaland, Mizoram, Assam, Myanmar	N Biren Singh	Sushri Anusuiya Uikye	2; 1	16	Unicameral; 60
Meghalaya (Shillong)	21 January 1972 (carved out of Assam)	Bangladesh and Assam	Conrad Kongkal Sangma	Phagu Chauhan	2; 1	12	Unicameral; 60
Mizoram (Aizawl)	20 February 1987 (made a UT on 21 January 1972)	Assam, Manipur, Tripura, Bangladesh and Myanmar	Pu Zoramthanga	Kambhampati Haribabu	1; 1	11	Unicameral; 40
Nagaland (Kohima)	1 December 1963	Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur and Myanmar	Neiphiu Rio	La. Ganesan	1; 1	16	Unicameral; 60
Odisha (Bhubaneshwar)	1 April 1936 (separated from Bengal and Bihar)	West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh	Naveen Patnaik	Ganeshi Lal	21; 10	30	Unicameral; 147
Punjab (Chandigarh)	1 November 1966	Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir	Bhagwant Singh Mann	Banwarilal Purohit	13; 7	23	Unicameral; 117
Rajasthan (Jaipur)	30 March 1949	Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat	Ashok Gehlot	Kalraj Mishra	25; 10	33	Unicameral; 200
Sikkim (Gangtok)	16 May 1975	Bhutan, China, West Bengal and Nepal	Prem Singh Tamang	Lakshman Prasad Acharya	1; 1	6	Unicameral; 32
Tamil Nadu (Chennai)	26 January 1950	Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Puducherry and Karnataka	M K Stalin	R N Ravi	39; 18	38	Unicameral; 234
Telangana (Hyderabad)	2 June 2014 (separated from Andhra Pradesh)	Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh	K. Chandrasekhar Rao	Tamilisai Soundararajan	17; 7	33	Bicameral; Assembly- 119 Council- 40
Tripura (Agartala)	21 January 1972 (became a UT on 1 Nov 1956)	Bangladesh, Assam and Mizoram	Manik Saha	Satyadeo Narain Arya	2; 1	8	Unicameral; 60
Uttarakhand (Summer capital- Gairsain, Winter Capital- Dehradun)	9 November 2000 (carved out of UP)	China, Nepal, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh	Pushkar Singh Dhami	Gurmit Singh	5; 3	13	Unicameral; 70
Uttar Pradesh (Lucknow)	24 January 1950	Rajasthan, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Nepal, Delhi, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh	Yogi Adityanath	Anandiben Patel	80; 31	75	Bicameral; Assembly- 403 Council- 100
West Bengal (Kolkata)	26 January 1950	Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Sikkim and Assam	Mamta Banerjee	C V Ananda Bose	42; 16	23	Unicameral; 294

List of Union Territories in India (As of July 2023)

Union Territory (Capital)	Became a UT on	Border sharing States/ UTs and Countries/ Other facts	LG/ Administrator/ Chief Minister	Lok Sabha; Rajya Sabha seats	Number of Districts	Legislature
Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Port Blair)	1 November 1956	Andaman Islands and Nicobar Islands are separated by a 10 degree channel. It is located in Bay of Bengal.	Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi (LG)	Lok Sabha-1	3
Chandigarh (Chandigarh)	1 November 1966	Punjab and Haryana	Banwarilal Purohit (Administrator)	Lok Sabha-1	1
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu (Daman)	Merged on 26 January 2020	Dadra is a small enclave within Gujarat. Nagar Haveli is an enclave located between Gujarat and Maharashtra. Daman is an enclave on the coast of Gujarat and Diu is an island off the coast of Gujarat.	Praful Patel (Administrator)	Lok Sabha-2	3
NCT of Delhi (Delhi)	1 February 1992 (became National Capital Territory)	Haryana and Uttar Pradesh	Vinai Kumar Saxena (LG) Arvind Kejriwal (CM)	Lok Sabha-7;3	11	Unicameral; 70
Jammu and Kashmir (Summer capital- Srinagar; Winter Capital- Jammu)	31 October 2019	Himachal Pradesh, Pakistan, Punjab, Ladakh	Manoj Sinha (LG) G C Murmu- 1st LG	Lok Sabha-5,4	20	Unicameral; 114
Ladakh (Leh)	31 October 2019	China, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Pakistan administered Gilgit-Baltistan	Brigader B D Mishra (LG)	Lok Sabha-1	2
Lakshadweep (Kavaratti)	1 November 1956	It is located in the Arabian Sea.	Praful Patel (Administrator)	Lok Sabha-1;	1
Puducherry (Puducherry)	16 August 1962 (de-jure transfer)	Puducherry and Karaikal districts are bounded by Tamil Nadu, while Yanam and Mahé are enclosed by Andhra Pradesh and Kerala, respectively.	Tamilisai Soundrarajan (LG-Additional Charge) N. Rangaswamy (CM)	Lok Sabha-1; Rajya Sabha-1	4	Unicameral; 33

NOTE: In total eight members are elected from the Union territories (3 from Delhi, 1 from Puducherry and 4 from Jammu & Kashmir). Other Union territories are not represented in Rajya Sabha. It is also important to know the nicknames of Indian states and Indian cities nicknames.