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India : Capitals - 785 State-UT/District Capital Cities


India is a union of 28 States & 8 UTs ( Union Territories) today (in 2026). Underlying the States & UTs are respective Districts. All Cities/Towns & Villages, and the land in between, are part of an administrative unit known as a District. Each District has one City/Town Capital. While the size of India has remained the same, India had 640 Districts in 2011 which have now increased to 785, at the end of 2025. Each of these 785 Districts have their respective District Capitals. Some of these are also Capitals of States/UTs. Delhi, the capital city of the country, is a U.T. Also noteworthy - Bhubaneshwar ( capital of Odisha state, is not the District capital of Khordha district) & Amaravathi ( capital of Andhra Pradesh, is not the District capital of Guntur district).

Only 520 State/District capitals (out of 785) in India have a population base of 30,000 or more literate netizens in a language/script. For effective digital communication with these netizens across India, there is an opportunity to create 901 City Knowledge Webs.

No. States / UTs Assamese Bengali Devanagari Gurumukhi Kannada Malayalam Marathi Gujarati Odia Urdu Tamil Telugu English Other Scripts All 13 Scripts Capitals
1 Andhra Pradesh 1 4 1 26 16 48 26/28
2 Arunachal Pradesh 1 1 1/28
3 Assam 10 7 3 1 21 14/35
4 Bihar 36 6 1 43 36/38
5 Chattisgarh 16 1 1 1 19 16/33
6 Goa 0 0/3
7 Gujarat 4 3 28 1 1 15 52 28/34
8 Haryana 1 21 8 16 46 21/23
9 Himachal Pradesh 3 1 1 5 4/12
10 Jharkhand 3 16 1 1 1 3 25 16/24
11 Karnataka 1 3 26 2 3 1 1 10 2 6 13 68 27/31
12 Kerala 12 7 19 12/14
13 Madhya Pradesh 45 3 1 2 5 56 45/55
14 Maharashtra 2 21 1 4 2 32 5 1 7 2 4 20 101 32/36
15 Manipur 2 2 2/16
16 Meghalaya 3 1 1 1 6 3/12
17 Mizoram 1 1 1/11
18 Nagaland 1 2 5 8 5/17
19 Odisha 4 16 2 6 28 16/30
20 Punjab 6 22 19 47 22/23
21 Rajasthan 30 2 2 4 38 30/41
22 Sikkim 1 1 2 1/6
23 Tamil Nadu 1 2 2 2 2 35 5 17 66 35/38
24 Telangana 2 2 2 3 2 23 5 39 23/33
25 Tripura 2 1 2 5 3/8
26 Uttar Pradesh 59 10 17 86 59/75
27 Uttarakhand 4 1 1 2 8 4/13
28 West Bengal 20 6 3 29 22/23
29 Andaman and Nicobar 1 1 1 3 1/3
30 Chandigarh 1 1 1 3 1/1
31 Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu 1 2 1 4 2/3
32 Jammu and Kashmir 7 1 3 11 7/20
33 Ladakh 0 0/2
34 Lakshadweep 0 0/1
35 National Capital Territory of Delhi 1 1 1 1 4 1/11
36 Puducherry 1 2 1 3 7 4/4
Total 15 39 297 38 34 19 44 40 21 51 44 67 192 901 520/785

Notes:

1. Source : Census 2011 (Language Data, 2018)

2. 22 Official Languages are written in 13 Scripts

3. Of the 121 Indian Languages with more than 10,000 speakers (Census 2011), there are 13 primary scripts. Also there are 9 other minor scripts (totaling to approx. ~6.69% of Indian Population). It is noteworthy that Konkani is a multiscript language (3) and two languages – Santhali and Gondhi – do not have a script.