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  2. States of India by Urdu speakers - Wikipedia

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    As per Government of India census data of 2011, the total number of Urdu speakers in the Republic of India were 62,772,631. [1][2] According to the census guidelines, "Urdu" does not broadly refer to the Hindustani language, but the literary- register of the macrolanguage, hence accounting Hindi as a separate language.

  3. States and union territories of India - Wikipedia

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    India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, for a total of 36 entities. [ 1 ] The states and union territories are further subdivided into 806 districts and smaller administrative divisions. [ 2 ] The states of India are self-governing administrative divisions, each having a state government.

  4. Indian states by most spoken scheduled languages - Wikipedia

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    Bengali. Hindi. Santali. Urdu. Nepali. States and union territories of India by the most commonly spoken languages, among which most are scheduled but some are not scheduled languages, like Ao of Nagaland, Khasi of Meghalaya, Ladakhi of Ladakh, Mizo of Mizoram and Nyishi of Arunachal Pradesh. Exceptionally, Mizo attains state level official ...

  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.

  6. Hindi Belt - Wikipedia

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    States and union territories of India by the most spoken language [3] [a]. The Hindi Belt, also known as the Hindi Heartland or the Hindi speaking states, is a linguistic region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India where various Northern, Central, Eastern and Western Indo-Aryan languages are spoken, which in a broader sense is termed as Hindi languages, with ...

  7. List of Indian state and union territory name etymologies

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    ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ (Kannada) Lofty Land or Land of Kannadigas. From Kannada, karu (great/lofty) + nāḍu (land/country) = karunāḍu, which means "lofty land", referring to the Deccan plateau. karṇāṭaka is the Sanskritised adjectival form of karunāḍu, and means "of karunāḍu". In 1947, this state was formed from the princely ...

  8. List of languages by number of native speakers in India

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    States and union territories of India by the spoken first language [1] [note 1]. The Republic of India is home to several hundred languages.Most Indians speak a language belonging to the families of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European (c. 77%), the Dravidian (c. 20.61%), the Austroasiatic (precisely Munda and Khasic) (c. 1.2%), or the Sino-Tibetan (precisely Tibeto-Burman) (c. 0.8%), with ...

  9. Administrative divisions of India - Wikipedia

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    The administrative divisions of India are subnational administrative units of India; they are composed of a nested hierarchy of administrative divisions.. Indian states and territories frequently use different local titles for the same level of subdivision (e.g., the mandals of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana correspond to tehsils of Uttar Pradesh and other Hindi-speaking states but to talukas of ...