States and Capitals: Complete List of 28 States and Capitals of India and 8 UTs 2022 Monster Thinks

States and Capitals: Complete List of 28 States and Capitals of India 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 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. 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. 

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.

 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.

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

S.NO	State	Capital	CM	Governor
1	Andhra Pradesh	Amaravati	YS Jagan Mohan Reddy	Biswa Bhusan Harichandan
2	Arunachal Pradesh	Itanagar	Pema Khandu	B. D. Mishra
3	Assam	Dispur	Himanta Biswa Sarma	Jagdish Mukhi
4	Bihar	Patna	Nitish Kumar	Phagu Chauhan
5	Chhattisgarh	Raipur	Bhupesh Baghel	Sushri Anusuiya Uikey
6	Goa	Panaji	Pramod Sawant	P.S. Sreedharan Pillai
7	Gujarat	Gandhinagar	Bhupendra Patel	Acharya Dev Vrat
8	Haryana	Chandigarh	Manohar Lal	Bandaru Dattatraya
9	Himachal Pradesh	Shimla	Jairam Thakur	Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar
10	Jharkhand	Ranchi	Hemant Soren	Ramesh Bais
11	Karnataka	Bengaluru	Basavaraj Bommai	Thaawarchand Gehlot
12	Kerala	Thiruvananthapuram	Pinarayi Vijayan	Arif Mohammed Khan
13	Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal	Shivraj Singh Chouhan	Mangubhai Chhaganbhai Patel
14	Maharashtra	Mumbai	Eknath Shinde	Bhagat Singh Koshyari
15	Manipur	Imphal	N. Biren Singh	La. Ganesan
16	Meghalaya	Shillong	Conrad Kongkal Sangma	Satya Pal Malik
17	Mizoram	Aizawl	Pu Zoramthanga	Kambhampati Haribabu
18	Nagaland	Kohima	Neiphiu Rio	Jagdish Mukhi
19	Odisha	Bhubaneswar	Naveen Patnaik	Ganeshi Lal
20	Punjab	Chandigarh	Bhagwant Singh Mann	Banwarilal Purohit
21	Rajasthan	Jaipur	Ashok Gehlot	Kalraj Mishra
22	Sikkim	Gangtok	PS Golay	Ganga Prasad
23	Tamil Nadu	Chennai	M. K. Stalin	R. N. Ravi
24	Telangana	Hyderabad	K Chandrasekhar Rao	Tamilisai Soundararajan
25	Tripura	Agartala	Biplab Kumar Deb	Satyadeo Narain Arya
26	Uttar Pradesh	Lucknow	Yogi Aditya Nath	Anandiben Patel
27	Uttarakhand	Dehradun	Pushkar Singh Dhami	Lt. Gen. Gurmit Singh
28	West Bengal	Kolkata	Mamata Banerjee	La. Ganesan

 

Complete list of 8 Union Territories:

S.NO	Union Territories	Capital	CM	Lt. Governor
1	Andaman and Nicobar Island	Port Blair	NA	D K Joshi
2	Chandigarh	Chandigarh	NA	Banwarilal Purohit
3	Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	Daman	NA	Praful Patel
4	Delhi	Delhi	Arvind Kejriwal	Vinai Kumar Saxena
5	Ladakh	NA	NA	Radha Krishna Mathur
6	Lakshadweep	Kavaratti	NA	Praful Patel
7	Jammu and Kashmir	NA	NA	Manoj Sinha
8	Puducherry	Pondicherry	N. Rangaswamy	Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan

 

States and Capitals of India: Frequently Asked Questions

Q.1 Presently, how many States and UTs are present in our country?

Answer: There are 28 states and 8 Union territories in the country which was in effect from 26th January 2020.

Q2. Who is the head of the Union Territories of India?

Answer: Lt. Governors & Administrators are considered to be the head of a Union Territories of India.

Q3. Name the state which has been bifurcated to make union territory.

Answer: Jammu and Kashmir state was split into two new Union Territories: Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

Q4. What are the latest updates on the Union Territories of India?

Answer: Daman & Diu got merged with Dadar & Nagar Haveli in 2020.

Q5. Which is the smallest Union Territory of India?

Answer: Lakshwadeep is the smallest Union Territory of India.