INDIA, INDIAN STATES & UNION TERRITORIES AND INDIA’S NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES

 There are 28 States and 8 Union Territories in India

States:

            1) Area Wise:

                        largest State- Rajasthan

                        Smallest State- Goa

            2) Population wise:

                        Most Populated State- Uttar Pradesh

                        least Populated State- Sikkim

            3) latest State- Telangana (2nd June, 2014)

            4) Poorest State- Bihar

                State with less poverty rate- Kerala

            5) Uttar Pradesh is the state with highest no of districts(75)

            6) State with highest literacy rate- Kerala

                State with lowest literacy rate- Bihar

            7) State with highest Sex ratio- Kerala

                State with lowest Sex ratio- Haryana

                

Union  Territories:

            1) Area Wise:

                        largest UT- Jammu and Kashmir

                        Smallest UT- lakshwadeep

            2) Population wise:

                        Most Populated UT- Delhi

                        least Populated UT- lakshwadeep

            3) latest UT- Dadar and Nagar Haveli & Daman and Diu (26th January 2020)

     largest District: Kutch, Gujarat

     Smallest District : Mahe, Pudhucherry

 Puducherry 

1) Puducherry is a Union Territory of India with 4 exclaved districts

• Pudhucherry district and Karaikal district (surrounded by Tamil Nadu)
• Mahe (Surrounded by Kerala)
• Yanam (Surrounded by Andhra Pradesh)

2)These Four districts retained the borders of French India and were incorporated into the Republic of India after the de facto transfer of the territories of French India in 1954 

               

1) State that shares border with Afghanisthan : ladakh  

 

2) States that share boundar with Myanmar:  Mizoram, Manipur and Nagaland 

 

3) States that shares border with Bhutan: Sikkim, West Bengal, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh 

 

4) States that share border with Bangladesh: West Bengal, Assam, Tripura, Meghalaya and Mizoram 

 

5) States that share border with China : ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarkhand, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh 

6) States that shares border with Nepal: Uttarkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Sikkim 

 

7) States that shares border with Pakisthan :  ladakh, jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat 

 

8 States that passes through Tropic of Cancer: 

Angle – 23.5 degree north of equator.  Tropic of Cancer passes through 17 countries and India is one among them. 

Tropic of Cancer crosses Mahi River twice, first in Madhya Pradesh from where it flows towards Rajasthan and enters Gujarat where it cuts for the second time. 

 

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  1) Uttar Pradesh is only Indian state which has maximum number of neighbouring states.  Uttar Pradesh share its borders with 8 different states of India and 1 UT(Delhi)

 2) Assam and Chhattisgarh are the two Indian States which share border with 7 states.

 3)  Maharashtra and Karnataka have each 6 neighbouring states 

 4) West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Rajasthan are four Indian states which has 5 neighbouring states. 

5) Telangana and Odisha are two Indian state which borders with 4 states.

 6) Meghalaya borders with Assam only;

  Sikkim borders with West Bengal only. 

 

Newly Appointed Governors( Sept 2021)

 1) RN Ravi -Governor of Tamil Nadu. 

 2) Lieutenant General (Retd) Gurmit Singh -Governor of Uttarakhand.  

3) Banwarilal Purohit -Governor of Punjab and Chandigarh. 

4) Prof. Jagdish Mukhi -Governor of Nagaland

 Newly Appointed CMs 

1) Pushkar Singh Dhami- CM of Uttarakhand  ( July 2021)

 2) Basavaraj Bommai –CM of Karnataka( July 2021)

 3) Bhupendrabhai Patel – CM of Gujarat (September 2021) 

4) Charanjit Singh Channi – CM of Punjab (September 2021)