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  2. List of Indian state and union territory name etymologies

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    In 1947, this state was formed from the princely state of Mysore. In 1956, the Kannada-speaking regions of neighboring states were added to Mysore state. The name was changed to Karnataka in 1973. See Etymology of Karnataka for more details. Kerala (12) കേരളം : Land added on or Land of Cheras or Land of coconut trees

  3. List of state and union territory capitals in India - Wikipedia

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    India is a federal constitutional republic governed under a parliamentary system consisting of 28 states and 8 union territories. [1] All states, as well as the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, Puducherry and the National Capital Territory of Delhi, have elected legislatures and governments, both patterned on the Westminster model. The ...

  4. List of districts in India - Wikipedia

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    District & Sessions Judge (Principal & additional), an officer belonging to the Indian Judicial Service (state), responsible for justice and passing orders of imprisonment, including the death penalty and also have limited administrative power. Also have appellate jurisdiction over all subordinate courts in the district for both civil and ...

  5. Official scripts of India - Wikipedia

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    Being the official script for Hindi, Devanagari is officially used in the Union Government of India as well as several Indian states where Hindi is an official language, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and the Indian union territories of Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Dadra and Nagar Haveli ...

  6. 25th federal electoral district of the State of Mexico

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    [2] [3] The 25th district was created by the 1977 electoral reforms, which increased the number of single-member seats in the Chamber of Deputies from 196 to 300. Under that plan, the State of Mexico's seat allocation rose from 15 to 34. [4] The new districts were first contended in the 1979 mid-term election.

  7. Indian states by most spoken scheduled languages - Wikipedia

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    The following table contains the Indian states and union territories along with the most spoken scheduled languages used in the region. [1] These are based on the 2011 census of India figures except Andhra Pradesh and Telangana , whose statistics are based on the 2001 census of the then unified Andhra Pradesh.

  8. List of districts of Bihar - Wikipedia

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    Bihar, a state of India, currently has 38 administrative districts, 101 subdivisions (अनुमंडल) and 535 CD blocks. A district of an Indian state is an administrative geographical unit, headed by a district magistrate or a deputy commissioner, an officer belonging to the Indian Administrative Service. The district magistrate or the ...

  9. New York's 25th State Assembly district - Wikipedia

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    The 25th State Assembly district spans the northeast portions of Queens, including the neighborhoods of Flushing, Queensboro Hill, Hillcrest, Fresh Meadows, Oakland Gardens, Bayside, and Douglaston. The district overlaps (partially) with New York's 5th and 6th congressional districts, the 11th , 14th and 16th districts of the New York State ...