Description

Three types of shapefiles are available here.

1. India boundary shapefile
2. India shapefile with all states
3. India district level Shapefiles

At the moment, India consists of 28 states and 8 union territories. Jammu and Ladakh, Dadar and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu were also included in the Shapefile as recently developed regions.

Here is a list of all the states in India along with their respective capitals:

1. Andhra Pradesh – Amaravati
2. Arunachal Pradesh – Itanagar
3. Assam – Dispur
4. Bihar – Patna
5. Chhattisgarh – Raipur
6. Goa – Panaji
7. Gujarat – Gandhinagar
8. Haryana – Chandigarh (shared with Punjab)
9. Himachal Pradesh – Shimla
10. Jharkhand – Ranchi
11. Karnataka – Bengaluru (Bangalore)
12. Kerala – Thiruvananthapuram
13. Madhya Pradesh – Bhopal
14. Maharashtra – Mumbai
15. Manipur – Imphal
16. Meghalaya – Shillong
17. Mizoram – Aizawl
18. Nagaland – Kohima
19. Odisha – Bhubaneswar
20. Punjab – Chandigarh (shared with Haryana)
21. Rajasthan – Jaipur
22. Sikkim – Gangtok
23. Tamil Nadu – Chennai
24. Telangana – Hyderabad
25. Tripura – Agartala
26. Uttar Pradesh – Lucknow
27. Uttarakhand – Dehradun
28. West Bengal – Kolkata

Additionally, India has 8 union territories with their capitals:

1. Andaman and Nicobar Islands – Port Blair
2. Chandigarh – Chandigarh
3. Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu – Daman
4. Lakshadweep – Kavaratti
5. Delhi (National Capital Territory of Delhi) – New Delhi
6. Puducherry – Puducherry
7. Ladakh – Leh
8. Jammu and Kashmir – Srinagar (summer capital), Jammu (winter capital)