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  2. List of states and union territories of India by population

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    During the decade of 2001–2011, India's annual population growth rate has slowed down from 2.15 percent to 1.76 percent. [7] Based on decennial census data, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu has the fastest growth rate of 55.1 percent, followed by Meghalaya (27.8 percent) and Arunachal Pradesh (25.9 percent).

  3. 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 ...

  4. State List - Wikipedia

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    The State List or List-II is a list of 61 items. Initially there were 66 items in the list in Schedule Seven to the Constitution of India.The legislative section is divided into three lists: the Union List, the State List and the Concurrent List.

  5. 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 ...

  6. ISO 3166-2:IN - Wikipedia

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    ISO 3166-2:IN is part of the ISO 3166 standardization codes published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for India. It is part of the ISO 3166-2, which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

  7. List of districts in India - Wikipedia

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    Each of these officials is aided by officers from the appropriate branch of the state government. Most districts have a distinct headquarters; but the districts of Mumbai City in Maharashtra , [ 7 ] Kolkata in West Bengal , Hyderabad in Telangana , and Chennai in Tamil Nadu are examples where there are no distinct district headquarters ...

  8. 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

  9. 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 ...