States and Capitals

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States and Capitals

North-Eastern States
StateCapital
AssamDispur
Arunachal PradeshItanagar
ManipurImphal
MeghalayaShillong
MizoramAizwal
NagalandKohima
TripuraAgartala
Newly Formed States
ChattisgarhRaipur
JharkhandRanchi
UttarakhandDehradun
TelanganaHyderabad
Union Territories
Andaman & NicobarPort Blair
Dadra and Nagar HaveliSilvassa
LakshadweepKavaratti
Daman & DiuDaman

Capitals of all the other States

StateCapital
Andhra PradeshHyderabad*
BiharPatna
GoaPanaji
GujaratGandhinagar
HaryanaChandigarh
Himachal PradeshShimla
Jammu and KashmirSrinagar and Jammu
KarnatakaBengaluru
KeralaThiruvananthapuram
MaharashtraMumbai
Madhya PradeshBhopal
OdishaBhubaneshwar
PunjabChandigarh
RajasthanJaipur
SikkimGangtok
TamilnaduChennai
Uttar PradeshLucknow
West BengalKolkata
NOTE:
  • Jammu and Kashmir has two capitals – Jammu for winter and Srinagar for summer.
  • Guwahati and Ahmedabad are not capital cities.
  • Capital of Pakistan occupied Kashmir is Muzaffarabad
  • *Hyderabad will be the joint capital of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana for 10 years, after which Amravati will be the capital of Andhra Pradesh.

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