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The list of states and union territories of the Republic of India by area is ordered from largest to smallest. India consists of 28 states and 8 union territories , including the National Capital Territory of Delhi with Rajasthan being largest in land area.
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India's total renewable water resources are estimated at 1,907.8 km 3 a year. [80] Its annual supply of usable and replenishable groundwater amounts to 350 billion cubic metres. [81] Only 35% of groundwater resources are being utilised. [81] About 44 million tonnes of cargo is moved annually through the country's major rivers and waterways. [63]
India is bound by the Indus and Ganges rivers, but its peninsula is much shortened. Instead, Sri Lanka ( Taprobane ) is greatly enlarged. The Malay Peninsula is given as the Golden Chersonese instead of the earlier "Golden Island", which derived from Indian accounts of the mines on Sumatra .
A map of India showing the territorial possessions of the British and Portuguese and Independent States.Samuel Rawson Gardiner D.C.L., L.L.D., School Atlas of English History (London, England: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1914) 54 Source