India comprises 28 states and eight union territories. Rajasthan is the largest state in India in terms of land area, whereas Goa is the smallest.

Many people are unaware of India’s largest state in terms of population and area.

Rajasthan has the largest land area (342,239 km2), followed by Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. The most populous state in India is Uttar Pradesh, followed by Maharashtra and Bihar.

By area, Jammu and Kashmir is India’s largest Union Territory, followed by Ladakh and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, with Lakshadweep being India’s smallest Union Territory.

The National Capital Territory of Delhi is India’s most populous Union Territory, followed by Jammu & Kashmir and Puducherry, with Lakshadweep being the least populous.

Learn more about the world’s seventh-largest and second-most populous country.

India is the world’s seventh-largest country by area (3.287 million km2) and the world’s second-most populous country (after China). It is home to 17.5 percent of the world’s population and covers 2.4 percent of the planet’s surface area.

This article will give you a list of all the states and union territories, organized by area and population.

In 1872, the first population census in British India was held. The first census in independent India was held in 1951, and it has been held every ten years since then. In India, the census is conducted by the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, which is under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).

 

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Below is the list of all the States and Union Territories along with their area.

State in India, area wise

 

S/No.	States	Region	Area (in km2)
1	Rajasthan	Northern	3,42,239
2	Madhya Pradesh	Central	3,08,252
3	Maharashtra	Western	3,07,713
4	Uttar Pradesh	Northern	2,40,928
5	Gujarat	Western	1,96,024
6	Karnataka	Southern	1,91,791
7	Andhra Pradesh	Southern	1,60,205
8	Odisha	Eastern	1,55,707
9	Chhattisgarh	Central	1,35,191
10	Tamil Nadu	Southern	1,30,058
11	Telangana	Southern	1,12,077
12	Bihar	Eastern	94,163
13	West Bengal	Eastern	88,752
14	Arunachal Pradesh	Northeastern	83,743
15	Jharkhand	Eastern	79,714
16	Assam	Northeastern	78,438
17	Himachal Pradesh	Northern	55,673
18	Uttarakhand	Northern	53,483
19	Punjab	Northern	50,362
20	Haryana	Northern	44,212
21	Kerala	Southern	38,863
22	Meghalaya	Northeastern	22,429
23	Manipur	Northeastern	22,327
24	Mizoram	Northeastern	21,081
25	Nagaland	Northeastern	16,579
26	Tripura	Northeastern	10,486
27	Sikkim	Northeastern	7,096
28	Goa	Western	3,702

 

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Union Territory in India, area wise

 

S/No.	Union Territory	Region	Area (in km2)
1	Ladakh	Northern	59,146
2	Jammu and Kashmir	Northern	42,241
3	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	Bay of Bengal	8,249
4	National Capital Territory of Delhi	Northern	1,483
5	Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	Western	603
6	Puducherry	Southern	479
7	Chandigarh	Northern	114
8	Lakshadweep	Arabian Sea	32

 

Below is the list of all the States and Union Territories along with their population.

State in India, population-wise

 

S/No.	States	Region	Population
1	Uttar Pradesh	Northern	19,98,12,341
2	Maharashtra	Western	11,23,74,333
3	Bihar	Eastern	10,40,99,452
4	West Bengal	Eastern	9,12,76,115
5	Madhya Pradesh	Central	7,26,26,809
6	Tamil Nadu	Southern	7,21,47,030
7	Rajasthan	Northern	6,85,48,437
8	Karnataka	Southern	6,10,95,297
9	Gujarat	Western	6,04,39,692
10	Andhra Pradesh	Southern	4,95,77,103
11	Odisha	Eastern	4,19,74,219
12	Telangana	Southern	3,50,03,674
13	Kerala	Southern	3,34,06,061
14	Jharkhand	Eastern	3,29,88,134
15	Assam	Northeastern	3,12,05,576
16	Punjab	Northern	2,77,43,338
17	Chhattisgarh	Central	2,55,45,198
18	Haryana	Northern	2,53,51,462
19	Uttarakhand	Northern	1,00,86,292
20	Himachal Pradesh	Northern	68,64,602
21	Tripura	Northeastern	36,73,917
22	Meghalaya	Northeastern	29,66,889
23	Manipur	Northeastern	25,70,390
24	Nagaland	Northeastern	19,78,502
25	Goa	Western	14,58,545
26	Arunachal Pradesh	Northeastern	13,83,727
27	Mizoram	Northeastern	10,97,206
28	Sikkim	Northeastern	6,10,577

 

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Union Territory in India, population-wise

 

S/No.	Union Territory	Region	Population
1	National Capital Territory of Delhi	Northern	1,67,87,941
2	Jammu and Kashmir	Northern	1,22,67,032
3	Puducherry	Southern	12,47,953
4	Chandigarh	Northern	10,55,450
5	Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	Western	5,85,764
6	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	Bay of Bengal	3,80,581
7	Ladakh	Northern	2,74,000
8	Lakshadweep	Arabian Sea	64,473

 

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