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States and Capitals of India 2022, India Now Has 28 States and 8 UTs 2022

 According to the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, the appointed day for the two Union Territories J&K and Ladakh was October 31.

States and Capitals

According to the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, the appointed day for the two Union Territories J&K and Ladakh was October 31. This is for the first time that a state is converted into two Union Territories. The total number of states in the country will now be 28, with effect from 26th January 2020, India has 8 union territories. 

Union Territories Of India

The Union Territories of Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli have become a single union territory since January 26 through a Bill passed by the Parliament in the winter session. With the merger of Daman and Diu, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, the number of UT’s have come down to eight. Out of all the states, three states i.e. Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Uttarakhand have different capitals for their summer and winter sessions of the legislature.

As students, you should know the complete list of Indian States and capitals so that you can answer general Knowledge questions. Here, we are providing the latest list of Indian States and Capitals in 2022.

India is a federal union made up of 28 states and 8 union territories, totalling 36 separate entities. Districts and smaller administrative units are subdivided further inside the states and union territories. Each state in India has its own administrative, legislative, and judicial capital. All three responsibilities, according to some accounts, are carried out in the same capital. Each state is led by a Chief Minister.

According to The States Reorganization Act 1956, the states of India were organized based on linguistic lines. There are 28 states and 8 Union Territories in India now. India consists of 400 cities altogether. India has eight metropolitan cities and they are Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Pune. The Prime Minister of India planned to develop 100 smart cities in India in the future. Indore bagged continuously 4 times the award of Smart city.

States and Capitals of India 2022

Here is the complete list of 28 States and Capitals of India :

S.NOStateCapitalCMGovernor
1Andhra PradeshAmaravatiYS Jagan Mohan ReddyBiswa Bhusan Harichandan
2Arunachal PradeshItanagarPema KhanduB. D. Mishra
3AssamDispurHimanta Biswa SarmaJagdish Mukhi
4BiharPatnaNitish KumarPhagu Chauhan
5ChhattisgarhRaipurBhupesh BaghelSushri Anusuiya Uikey
6GoaPanajiPramod SawantP.S. Sreedharan Pillai
7GujaratGandhinagarBhupendra PatelAcharya Dev Vrat
8HaryanaChandigarhManohar LalBandaru Dattatraya
9Himachal PradeshShimlaJairam ThakurRajendra Vishwanath Arlekar
10JharkhandRanchiHemant SorenRamesh Bais
11KarnatakaBengaluruBasavaraj BommaiThaawarchand Gehlot
12KeralaThiruvananthapuramPinarayi VijayanArif Mohammed Khan
13Madhya PradeshBhopalShivraj Singh ChouhanMangubhai Chhaganbhai Patel
14MaharashtraMumbaiUddhav ThackerayBhagat Singh Koshyari
15ManipurImphalN. Biren SinghLa. Ganesan
16MeghalayaShillongConrad Kongkal SangmaSatya Pal Malik
17MizoramAizawlPu ZoramthangaKambhampati Haribabu
18NagalandKohimaNeiphiu RioJagdish Mukhi
19OdishaBhubaneswarNaveen PatnaikGaneshi Lal
20PunjabChandigarhBhagwant Singh MannBanwarilal Purohit
21RajasthanJaipurAshok GehlotKalraj Mishra
22SikkimGangtokPS GolayGanga Prasad
23Tamil NaduChennaiM. K. StalinR. N. Ravi
24TelanganaHyderabadK Chandrasekhar RaoTamilisai Soundararajan
25TripuraAgartalaBiplab Kumar DebSatyadeo Narain Arya
26Uttar PradeshLucknowYogi Aditya NathAnandiben Patel
27UttarakhandDehradunPushkar Singh DhamiLt. Gen. Gurmit Singh
28West BengalKolkataMamata BanerjeeJagdeep Dhankhar

Complete list of 8 Union Territories:

S.NOUnion TerritoriesCapitalCMLt. Governor
1Andaman and Nicobar IslandPort BlairNAD K Joshi
2ChandigarhChandigarhNABanwarilal Purohit
3Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and DiuDamanNAPraful Patel
4DelhiDelhiArvind KejriwalAnil Baijal
5LadakhNANARadha Krishna Mathur
6LakshadweepKavarattiNAPraful Patel
7Jammu and KashmirNANAManoj Sinha
8PuducherryPondicherryN. RangaswamyDr. Tamilisai Soundararajan