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List of Indian States: Capitals, Chief Ministers and Governors

India has 28 states and 8 union territories (UTs) at present. The capitals of Indian states and union territories, their Chief Ministers (CMs) and Governors are commonly asked questions in the general knowledge segment of many competitive examinations held over India. As the list of states and union territories, their capitals, Chief Ministers and Governors changes over a period of time, we need to keep updated with the list.



States and their Capitals, CMs and Governors

The following list shows the 28 States of India, their capitals, Chief Ministers and their Governors. The states of India are arranged from North to South.


State Name Capital Chief Minister Governor
1. Himachal Pradesh Shimla Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu Shiv Pratap Shukla
2. Punjab Chandigarh Bhagwant Mann Gulab Chand Kataria
3. Uttarakhand Dehradun (Winter)
Gairsain (Summer)		 Pushkar Singh Dhami Gurmit Singh
4. Haryana Chandigarh Nayab Singh Saini Bandaru Dattatreya
5. Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Yogi Adityanath Anandiben Patel
6. Rajasthan Jaipur Bhajan Lal Sharma Haribhau Bagade
7. Arunachal Pradesh Itanagar Pema Khandu Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik
8. Sikkim Gangtok Prem Singh Tamang Om Prakash Mathur
9. Assam Dispur Himanta Biswa Sarma Lakshman Acharya
10. West Bengal Kolkata Mamata Banerjee C. V. Ananda Bose
11. Bihar Patna Nitish Kumar Rajendra Arlekar
12. Madhya Pradesh Bhopal Mohan Yadav Mangubhai C. Patel
13. Nagaland Kohima Neiphiu Rio La. Ganesan Iyer
14. Meghalaya Shillong Conrad Sangma C. H. Vijayashankar
15. Manipur Imphal N. Biren Singh Lakshman Acharya (additional charge)
16. Jharkhand Ranchi Hemant Soren Santosh Kumar Gangwar
17. Gujarat Gandhinagar Bhupendrabhai Patel Acharya Devvrat
18. Tripura Agartala Manik Saha Nallu Indra Sena Reddy
19. Mizoram Aizawl Lalduhoma Kambhampati Hari Babu
20. Chhattisgarh Raipur Vishnu Deo Sai Ramen Deka
21. Odisha Bhubaneswar Mohan Charan Majhi Raghubar Das
22. Maharashtra Mumbai Eknath Shinde C. P. Radhakrishnan
23. Telangana Hyderabad Anumula Revanth Reddy Jishnu Dev Varma
24. Andhra Pradesh Amaravati N. Chandrababu Naidu S. Abdul Nazeer
25. Karnataka Bengaluru Siddaramaiah Thawar Chand Gehlot
26. Goa Panaji Pramod Sawant P. S. Sreedharan Pillai
27. Tamil Nadu Chennai M. K. Stalin R. N. Ravi
28. Kerala Thiruvananthapuram Pinarayi Vijayan Arif Mohammad Khan


Union Territories and their Capitals, CMs and Lieutenant Governors

The following list shows the 8 Union Territories of India, their capitals, Chief Ministers and their Lieutenant Governors. The Union Territories of India are arranged from North to South.


Union Territory Name Capital Chief Minister Lieutenant Governor / Administrator
1. Ladakh Leh NA B. D. Mishra
2. Jammu and Kashmir Srinagar (Summer)
Jammu (Winter)		 Omar Abdullah Manoj Sinha
3. Chandigarh Chandigarh NA Gulab Chand Kataria
4. National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT) New Delhi Atishi Marlena Singh Vinai Kumar Saxena
5. Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu Daman NA Praful Khoda Patel
6. Puducherry Pondicherry N. Rangaswamy K. Kailashnathan
7. Lakshadweep Kavaratti NA Praful Khoda Patel (additional charge)
8. Andaman and Nicobar Islands Port Blair NA Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi

Note: NA - Not Applicable, there is no Legislative Assembly here.


Quiz

  1. How many States and Union Territories are there in India?

    1. 28 States and 9 Union Territories

    2. 29 States and 8 Union Territories

    3. 29 States and 9 Union Territories

    4. 28 States and 8 Union Territories

    Answer

    Ans: D


  2. Match the States with their capitals:

    1. Andhra Pradesh

    2. Meghalaya

    3. Gujarat

    4. Himachal Pradesh
    1. Gandhinagar

    2. Shimla

    3. Amaravati

    4. Shillong


    1. a-3, b-4, c-1, d-2

    2. a-1, b-3, c-4, d-2

    3. a-1, b-3, c-2, d-4

    4. a-3, b-2, c-1, d-4

    Answer

    Ans: A