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ISO Add
Vehicle Area Official
State 3166- Zone Capital Largest city Statehood Population[40] o
2:IN
code (km2) languages[41]
langu
Hyderabad (de jure)
Andhra 1 November
IN-AP AP Southern Amaravati (de facto) Visakhapatnam 49,506,799 160,205 Telugu —
Pradesh Note 1[42][43] 1956

Arunachal North- 20 February

IN-AR AR Itanagar 1,383,727 83,743 English —
Pradesh Eastern 1987
North- 26 January
Assam IN-AS AS Dispur Guwahati 31,205,576 78,550 Assamese Beng
Eastern 1950
26 January
Bihar IN-BR BR Eastern Patna 104,099,452 94,163 Hindi Urdu
1950
1 November
Chhattisgarh IN-CT CG Central Naya Raipur Raipur 25,545,198 135,194 Hindi —
2000
Vasco da
Goa IN-GA GA Western Panaji 30 May 1987 1,458,545 3,702 Konkani Engli
Gama
Gujarat IN-GJ GJ Western Gandhinagar Ahmedabad 1 May 1960 60,439,692 196,024 Gujarati —
1 November
Haryana IN-HR HR Northern Chandigarh Faridabad 25,351,462 44,212 Hindi Punja
1966
Shimla (Summer)
Himachal 25 January
IN-HP HP Northern Dharamshala Shimla 6,864,602 55,673 Hindi Sans
Pradesh 1971
(Winter)[46]

15
Jharkhand IN-JH JH Eastern Ranchi Jamshedpur November 32,988,134 74,677 Hindi Urdu
2000
1 November
Karnataka IN-KA KA Southern Bangalore 61,095,297 191,791 Kannada Engli
1956
1 November
Kerala IN-KL KL Southern Thiruvananthapuram Kochi 33,406,061 38,863 Malayalam Engli
1956
Madhya 1 November
IN-MP MP Central Bhopal Indore 72,626,809 308,252 Hindi —
Pradesh 1956
Mumbai (Summer)
Maharashtra IN-MH MH Western Mumbai 1 May 1960 112,374,333 307,713 Marathi —
Nagpur (Winter)[49]
North- 21 January
Manipur IN-MN MN Imphal 2,855,794 22,347 Meitei Engli
Eastern 1972
North- 21 January
Meghalaya IN-ML ML Shillong 2,966,889 22,720 English Khas
Eastern 1972
North- 20 February English, Hindi,
Mizoram IN-MZ MZ Aizawl 1,097,206 21,081 —
Eastern 1987 Mizo
North- 1 December
Nagaland IN-NL NL Kohima Dimapur 1,978,502 16,579 English —
Eastern 1963
26 January
Odisha IN-OR OD Eastern Bhubaneswar 41,974,218 155,820 Odia —
1950
1 November
Punjab IN-PB PB Northern Chandigarh Ludhiana 27,743,338 50,362 Punjabi —
1966
1 November
Rajasthan IN-RJ RJ Northern Jaipur 68,548,437 342,269 Hindi Engli
1956
Bhuti
Lepc
North- Mang
Sikkim IN-SK SK Gangtok 16 May 1975 610,577 7,096 English, Nepali
Eastern Mukh
Rai, S
Tama
1 November
Tamil Nadu IN-TN TN Southern Chennai 72,147,030 130,058 Tamil Engli
1956
Telangana IN-TG TS Southern HyderabadNote 1 2 June 2014 35,193,978[50] 114,840[50] Telugu, Urdu[51] —
Bengali,
North- 21 January
Tripura IN-TR TR Agartala 3,673,917 10,492 English, —
Eastern 1972
Kokborok
Uttar 26 January
IN-UP UP Northern Lucknow Kanpur 199,812,341 243,286 Hindi Urdu
Pradesh 1950
Gairsain (Summer) 9 November
Uttarakhand IN-UT UK Northern Dehradun 10,086,292 53,483 Hindi Sans
Dehradun (Winter)[52] 2000

Bengali, Hindi
26 January
West Bengal IN-WB WB Eastern Kolkata 91,276,115 88,752 Punja
1950 Nepali[b]
Santa

^Note 1 Andhra Pradesh was divided into two states, Telangana and a residual Andhra Pradesh on 2 June 2014.[54][55][56] Hyderabad, located
entirely within the borders of Telangana, is to serve as the capital for both states for a period of time not exceeding ten years.[57] The Government of
Andhra Pradesh and the Andhra Pradesh Legislature completed the process of relocating to temporary facilities in the envisaged new capital city
Amaravati in early 2017.[42]

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ISO Area Official Additional official

Vehicle Largest
Union territory 3166- Capital Population[40]
code city (km2) languages[41] languages[41]
2:IN
Andaman and Bengali, Tamil, Telugu,
IN-AN AN Port Blair 380,581 8,249 English, Hindi
Nicobar Islands Malayalam
Chandigarh IN-CH CH Chandigarh —[c] 1,055,450 114 English, Hindi, Punjabi —
Dadra and Nagar
English, Gujarati,
Haveli and Daman IN-DD DD Daman 586,956 603 Konkani, Marathi
Hindi
and Diu
Delhi IN-DL DL New Delhi —[d] 16,787,941 1,490 English, Hindi Punjabi, Urdu[58]
Srinagar
Jammu and (Summer)
IN-JK JK Srinagar 12,258,433 55,538Note 3 English, Urdu Dogri, Kashmiri
Kashmir Jammu
(Winter)

Leh
(Summer)
Ladakh IN-LA LA
Kargil
Leh 290,492 174,852Note 4 English, Ladakhi —
(Winter)[59]

Lakshadweep IN-LD LD Kavaratti 64,473 32 English, Malayalam —

Puducherry IN-PY PY Pondicherry 1,247,953 492 English,[60] Tamil Telugu, Malayalam

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