List of state and union territory capitals in India

Template:Short description Template:Pp Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Indian English Template:India divisions by India is a federal constitutional republic governed under a parliamentary system consisting of 28 states and 8 union territories. 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 remaining five union territories are directly ruled by the central government through appointed administrators. In 1956, under the States Reorganisation Act, states were reorganised on a linguistic basis.Template:Sfn Their structure has since remained largely unchanged. Each state or union territory is further divided into administrative districts.

The legislatures of three states Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra and Uttarakhand meet in different capitals for their summer and winter sessions. Ladakh has both Leh and Kargil as its administrative capitals.

List

The state and union territory capitals are sorted according to administrative, legislative and judicial capitals. The administrative capital is where the executive government offices are located. The legislative capital is where the legislative assembly is located and the judicial capital is where the states or union territories' high courts are located.

States

State	Administrative/ Executive capital	Legislative capital	Judicial capital	Year of establishment	Former capital
Andhra Pradesh	Amaravati			1956	HyderabadTemplate:Efn(1956–2014)
Arunachal Pradesh	Itanagar		Guwahati	1987	—
Assam	Dispur			1972	ShillongTemplate:Efn (1950–1972)
Bihar	Patna			1950	—
Chhattisgarh	RaipurTemplate:Efn		Bilaspur	2000
Goa	PanajiTemplate:Efn	Porvorim	Mumbai	1987
Gujarat	Gandhinagar		Ahmedabad	1960	Ahmedabad (1960–1970)
Haryana	Chandigarh			1966	—
Himachal Pradesh	Shimla	Shimla (Summer) Dharamshala (Winter)	Shimla	1971
Jharkhand	Ranchi			2000
Karnataka	Bengaluru	Bengaluru (Summer) Belgaum (Winter)	Bengaluru	1956
Kerala	Thiruvananthapuram		Kochi
Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal		Jabalpur
Maharashtra	MumbaiTemplate:Efn	Mumbai (Summer) Nagpur (Winter)	Mumbai	1960
Manipur	Imphal			1972
Meghalaya	Shillong
Mizoram	Aizawl		Guwahati	1987
Nagaland	Kohima			1963
Odisha	Bhubaneswar		Kataka (also known as Cuttack)	1950
Punjab	Chandigarh			1966
Rajasthan	Jaipur		Jodhpur	1950
Sikkim	GangtokTemplate:Efn			1975
Tamil Nadu	ChennaiTemplate:Efn			1956
Telangana	Hyderabad			2014
Tripura	Agartala			1972
Uttar Pradesh	Lucknow		Prayagraj (also known as Allahabad)	1950
Uttarakhand	Dehradun	Bhararisain (summer) Dehradun (winter)	Nainital	2000
West Bengal	Kolkata (also known as Calcutta)			1950

Union territories

Union Territory	Administrative/ Executive capital	Legislative capital	Judicial capital	Year of establishment
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	Sri Vijay Puram (also known as Port Blair)	–	Kolkata	1956
Chandigarh	Chandigarh		Chandigarh	1966
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	Daman		Mumbai	2020
Jammu and Kashmir	Srinagar (summer) Jammu (winter)			2019
Ladakh	Leh (summer) Kargil (winter)	–	Srinagar (summer) Jammu (winter)
Lakshadweep	Kavaratti		Ernakulam	1956
Delhi	New Delhi
Puducherry	Pondicherry		Chennai	1951

External links

• List of states in India