All questions of The Indian States for Class 3 Exam
The capital of Punjab is Chandigarh, which also serves as the capital of Haryana and is thus administered separately as a Union Territory of India.
- Port Blair is the capital of the Union Territory of Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
- It is located on the east coast of the South Andaman Island.
- After the creation of Meghalaya as a separate state, Shillong continued to be the joint capital of both Assam and Meghalaya.
- However, in 1972, the Government of Assam decided to shift the Capital to Dispur, Guwahati.
- Kolkata, Bengali Kalikata, formerly Calcutta, city, capital of West Bengal state, and former capital (1772–1911) of British India.
- It is one of India's largest cities and one of its major ports.
- Kavaratti Island serves as the capital of the Union Territory of Lakshadweep.
- Tourism is the primary industry here.
- Lakshadweep is known for the white sand beaches.
- The capital of Meghalaya is Shillong.
- During the British rule of India, the British imperial authorities nicknamed it the "Scotland of the East".
- Thiruvananthapuram is the capital city of the Indian state of Kerala.
- The city used to be known by the name of Trivandrum.
Srinagar, city, summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir union territory (Jammu is the winter capital), northern India, situated in the Kashmir region of the Indian subcontinent.
- Itanagar, town, capital of Arunachal Pradesh state, northeastern India.
- It is situated north of the Brahmaputra River in the southwestern part of the state.
- City is Located on the banks of the River Sabarmati.
- The city is the administrative centre of Ahmedabad district, and was the capital of Gujarat from 1960 to 1970; the capital was shifted to Gandhinagar.
Ranchi, in its modern form, is the capital city of the Indian state of Jharkhand.
- Shimla is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.
- In 1864, Shimla was declared as the summer capital of British India, succeeding Murree, northeast of Rawalpindi.
The state is divided into 18 divisions and 75 districts with the capital being Lucknow.
- Gangtok, city, capital of Sikkim state, northeastern India.
- It lies on a tributary of the Tista River in the southeast-central part of the state at an elevation of about 5,600 feet (1,700 metres).
- Panaji, also spelled Panjim, town, capital of Goa state, western India.
- It lies on the estuary of the Mandavi River at the river's mouth on the Arabian Sea.
- Dehradun is the capital city of Uttarakhand – a northern state of India.
- It is situated at an altitude of 640 mts (2100 fts) to 1,000 mts (3280 fts) above mean sea level.
- The state was formed by the partition of ten Chhattisgarhi and six Gondi-speaking districts in the southeast of Madhya Pradesh.
- Its capital city is Raipur.
Silvassa, also spelled Silvasa, town, administrative headquarters of Dadra and Nagar Haveli district, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu union territory, western India.
Mumbai (also known as Bombay, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
Bhubaneswar (Bhubaneswar means the Land of God, Bhuban - earth or land and Eswar - God) is the capital city of the Indian Middle Eastern state of Orissa (Odisha).