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Every district of India

724 districts in 36 states and union territories. Each has 10 slots at ₹99; a rival can take yours by paying double.

Andaman & Nicobar

Some 570 islands in the Bay of Bengal; Cellular Jail at Port Blair and coral reefs

  • Nicobars — Great Nicobar and Indira Point, India's southernmost tip
  • North and Middle Andaman — Baratang's mud volcanoes and limestone caves; Saddle Peak, the islands' highest
  • South Andaman — Port Blair's Cellular Jail; Havelock (Swaraj Dweep) beaches

Andhra Pradesh

Tirupati, the Godavari and Krishna deltas, and Guntur chilli

  • Anantapur — Lepakshi's hanging pillar and Sathya Sai's ashram at Puttaparthi
  • Chittoor — Home of the Tirupati Balaji temple, India's most-visited shrine
  • East Godavari — Rajahmundry and the coconut groves of Konaseema on the river delta
  • Guntur — Asia's largest chilli market yard and the Amaravati stupa site
  • Krishna — Vijayawada's Kanaka Durga temple and Machilipatnam Kalamkari
  • Kurnool — Srisailam Jyotirlinga and the Belum limestone caves
  • Prakasam — Ongole cattle breed and the granite quarries around Chimakurthy
  • S.P.S. Nellore — Pulicat lake and the Sriharikota rocket launch site
  • Srikakulam — Arasavalli sun temple and the Srikurmam Vishnu shrine
  • Visakhapatnam — Deep-water port, steel plant and the Araku valley coffee hills
  • Vizianagaram — Fort of the Pusapati rajas and Bobbili, site of the 1757 siege
  • West Godavari — Bhimavaram fish and prawn farms on the Kolleru lake margins
  • Y.S.R. Kadapa — Gandikota gorge on the Penna, the 'Grand Canyon of India'

Arunachal Pradesh

Tawang Monastery, the Siang gorge and India's first sunrise at Dong

  • Anjaw — Walong battlefield of 1962 and Kibithu, India's easternmost town
  • Changlang — Namdapha National Park and the Pangsau Pass on the Stilwell Road
  • East Kameng — Seppa, the district HQ on the river; homeland of the Nyishi people
  • East Siang — Pasighat, Arunachal's oldest town, founded 1911 where the river leaves the hills
  • Kamle — Headquartered at Raga; carved out of Lower and Upper Subansiri in 2017
  • Kra Daadi — Hill district around Palin, carved from Kurung Kumey in 2015
  • Kurung Kumey — Koloriang on the river near the Tibet border; Nyishi homeland
  • Lepa Rada — Basar valley of the Galo people; Basar Confluence festival
  • Lohit — Parshuram Kund, the Makar Sankranti pilgrimage near Tezu on the river
  • Longding — Wancho homeland, split from Tirap in 2012
  • Lower Dibang Valley — Mehao lake and the Bhismaknagar fort ruins near Roing
  • Lower Siang — Likabali on the edge of the Assam plains; Galo homeland
  • Lower Subansiri — Ziro valley of the Apatani and the Ziro music festival
  • Namsai — Golden Pagoda (Kongmu Kham) of the Tai Khamti Buddhists
  • Pakke Kessang — Tiger reserve on the Assam border, a nesting stronghold for hornbills
  • Papum Pare — Itanagar, the state capital, and the Ita Fort's brick ruins
  • Shi Yomi — Mechuka valley near the McMahon Line; district seat at Tato
  • Siang — Boleng, headquarters of a district created in 2015 on the river
  • Tawang — India's largest Buddhist monastery and the Sela Pass road
  • Tirap — Khonsa in the Patkai hills; Nocte tribal homeland
  • Upper Dibang Valley — Anini, one of India's remotest district seats; Idu Mishmi
  • Upper Siang — Where the Tsangpo enters India near Gelling and turns south toward Assam
  • Upper Subansiri — Daporijo, the river town at its centre; homeland of the Tagin people
  • West Kameng — Bomdila and Dirang on the road to Sela; Eaglenest birding
  • West Siang — Aalo (Along) at the Siyom-Sipu confluence; Galo Mopin festival

Assam

Kaziranga's one-horned rhinos and the Brahmaputra's tea country

  • Baksa — Eastern range of Manas National Park below the Bhutan hills
  • Barpeta — Satra founded by Madhavdev, seat of the Vaishnavite reform movement
  • Biswanath — Ghat on the Brahmaputra's north bank called the 'Gupta Kashi' of Assam
  • Bongaigaon — Indian Oil refinery town at the gateway to lower Assam
  • Cachar — Silchar in the Barak valley; Bengali-speaking tea country
  • Charaideo — Ahom royal burial mounds (Moidams), UNESCO-listed in 2024
  • Chirang — Western Manas forests along the Bhutan foothills; Kajalgaon
  • Darrang — Mangaldai and part of Orang National Park on the Brahmaputra
  • Dhemaji — Flood-prone north bank plains; Ali-Ai-Ligang festival of the Mising
  • Dhubri — Gurdwara Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib on a wide Brahmaputra bend
  • Dibrugarh — Tea city of upper Assam, with the state's oldest gardens
  • Dima Hasao — Haflong hill station and the Jatinga bird phenomenon
  • Goalpara — Sri Surya Pahar rock-cut Shiva lingas and stupas
  • Golaghat — Kaziranga's Kohora gate and the Numaligarh refinery
  • Hailakandi — Barak valley tea and paddy district south of Silchar
  • Hojai — Agarwood oil distilleries; India's largest agar trade
  • Jorhat — Tocklai tea research station and the Ahom's last capital
  • Kamrup — Sualkuchi silk-weaving village and the Hajo shrines
  • Kamrup Metropolitan — Guwahati and the Kamakhya temple on Nilachal hill
  • Karbi Anglong — Diphu in Assam's largest district, an autonomous hill council area
  • Karimganj — Border district on the Kushiyara river; renamed Sribhumi
  • Kokrajhar — Seat of the Bodoland Territorial Region
  • Lakhimpur — Where the Subansiri comes down to the Brahmaputra; road gateway to Arunachal
  • Majuli — River island of the Brahmaputra and its Vaishnavite satras
  • Morigaon — Pobitora sanctuary, densest rhino population anywhere
  • Nagaon — Bordowa, birthplace of the saint-scholar Srimanta Sankardev
  • Nalbari — Raas Mahotsav and the Hari Mandir
  • Sivasagar — Ahom capital: Rang Ghar amphitheatre and Talatal Ghar
  • Sonitpur — Tezpur and Nameri National Park at the Arunachal foothills
  • South Salmara Mankachar — Riverine chars where the Brahmaputra turns into Bangladesh
  • Tinsukia — Digboi, India's oldest oil refinery, and Dibru-Saikhowa park
  • Udalguri — Bhairabkunda at the Bhutan border; Bodo heartland
  • West Karbi Anglong — Hamren in the hills, split from its parent district in 2016

Bihar

Bodh Gaya, the Nalanda ruins and Mithila painting

  • Araria — Kosi flood plains along the Nepal border; Forbesganj
  • Arwal — Small district on the Sone canal network, carved from Jehanabad
  • Aurangabad — Deo sun temple, a major Chhath pilgrimage site
  • Banka — Mandar Hill of the Puranic churning legend
  • Begusarai — Barauni oil refinery and thermal power station
  • Bhagalpur — Tussar silk weaving and the Vikramshila university ruins
  • Bhojpur — Arrah and Jagdishpur, home of 1857 rebel Veer Kunwar Singh
  • Buxar — Site of the 1764 battle that gave the British Bengal's revenue
  • Darbhanga — Seat of the Mithila maharajas; Madhubani painting country
  • East Champaran — Motihari, where Gandhi's 1917 satyagraha began; Orwell's birthplace
  • Gaya — Mahabodhi temple where the Buddha attained enlightenment; the Vishnupad shrine
  • Gopalganj — Thawe Durga temple and sugar mills on the Gandak plains
  • Jamui — Forested hills on the Jharkhand edge; Kiul river
  • Jehanabad — Barabar caves, oldest rock-cut caves in India, Mauryan era
  • Kaimur — Mundeshwari temple on the plateau, among India's oldest in continuous worship
  • Katihar — Railway junction town near the Manihari Ganga ghat
  • Khagaria — Kosi and Bagmati channels meeting the Ganga; banana farms
  • Kishanganj — Bihar's only tea gardens, near the Bengal border
  • Lakhisarai — Ashok Dham Shiva temple on the Kiul river
  • Madhepura — Singheshwar Sthan Shiva shrine in the Kosi basin
  • Madhubani — The Mithila painting tradition of wall and paper art by village women
  • Munger — Bihar School of Yoga and a historic gun-making town
  • Muzaffarpur — Shahi litchi orchards, a GI-tagged fruit
  • Nalanda — Ruins of the ancient Buddhist university and the hills of Rajgir
  • Nawada — Kakolat waterfall in the Rajgir hill country
  • Patna — State capital: Golghar granary and the takht marking Guru Gobind Singh's birthplace
  • Purnia — Makhana and jute fields on the Kosi-Mahananda plains
  • Rohtas — Sher Shah Suri's tomb at Sasaram and a hill fort on the Kaimur range
  • Saharsa — Ugratara temple at Mahishi in the Kosi flood zone
  • Samastipur — Pusa, seat of Dr Rajendra Prasad Agricultural University
  • Saran — Sonepur cattle fair on the Gandak-Ganga confluence
  • Sheikhpura — Stone-quarry district on the Munger-Nalanda edge
  • Sheohar — Bihar's smallest district, carved from Sitamarhi in 1994
  • Sitamarhi — Punaura Dham, held to be the birthplace of Sita
  • Siwan — Jiradei, birthplace of first President Dr Rajendra Prasad
  • Supaul — Kosi barrage at Bhimnagar on the Nepal border
  • Vaishali — Ancient Licchavi republic; Ashokan pillar at Kolhua
  • West Champaran — Valmiki Tiger Reserve and Bettiah in the terai

Chandigarh

Le Corbusier's planned city, joint capital of Punjab and Haryana

  • Chandigarh — Le Corbusier's Capitol Complex, Nek Chand's Rock Garden and Sukhna Lake

Chhattisgarh

Bastar's Chitrakote falls, Bhilai steel and the Korba coalfields

  • Balod — Tandula reservoir irrigating the Durg plains
  • Baloda Bazar — Cement belt of the state's largest limestone plants
  • Balrampur — Tattapani hot springs on the Jharkhand border
  • Bametara — Bemetara on the Shivnath river; rice-bowl farmland
  • Bastar — Chitrakote falls on the Indravati and a 75-day Dussehra festival
  • Bijapur — Indravati Tiger Reserve on the Maharashtra border
  • Bilaspur — South East Central Railway headquarters; Ratanpur fort town
  • Dakshin Bastar Dantewada — Danteshwari temple and the Bailadila iron-ore hills
  • Dhamtari — Gangrel dam on the Mahanadi, the state's largest reservoir
  • Durg — Bhilai Steel Plant, among India's first integrated steelworks
  • Gariaband — Sikaser dam and the Udanti-Sitanadi tiger reserve
  • Janjgir Champa — Kosa (tussar) silk weaving and an unfinished 12th-century Kalachuri Vishnu temple
  • Jashpur — Kunkuri cathedral, one of Asia's largest churches
  • Kabeerdham — Bhoramdeo temple, the 'Khajuraho of Chhattisgarh'
  • Kondagaon — Bell-metal (dhokra) casting craft
  • Korba — Coalfields and thermal power stations on the Hasdeo
  • Koriya — Amritdhara waterfall and Guru Ghasidas forests
  • Mahasamund — Sirpur, a 5th–8th century Buddhist and Shaiva ruin field
  • Mungeli — Achanakmar Tiger Reserve in the Maikal hills
  • Narayanpur — Abujhmad, the 'unknown hills', long unsurveyed
  • Raigarh — Jindal steel and power; Chakradhar classical music festival
  • Raipur — State capital and the planned satellite city of Atal Nagar
  • Rajnandgaon — Bamleshwari temple on Dongargarh hill
  • Sukma — Southernmost district, bordering Telangana and Odisha on the Sabari
  • Surajpur — Coal-mining belt north of Ambikapur; Rihand headwaters
  • Surguja — Ambikapur and the Mainpat plateau, a Tibetan settlement
  • Uttar Bastar Kanker — Palace of the former princely state, now a heritage hotel

Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu

Merged UT of former Portuguese enclaves on the Gujarat coast, unified in 2020

  • Dadra and Nagar Haveli — Silvassa, Portuguese until 1954; Warli tribal villages and forests
  • Daman — Portuguese-era forts on both banks of the river mouth, held until 1961
  • Diu — Diu Fort of 1535 and Portuguese churches; Nagoa beach

Delhi

National Capital Territory; the Mughal Red Fort and Lutyens' capital city

  • Delhi — Red Fort, Qutb Minar, Humayun's Tomb and Jama Masjid

Goa

Portuguese-era churches of Old Goa and the Konkan beaches

  • North Goa — Panaji, the Old Goa basilicas and the Baga-Calangute strip
  • South Goa — Margao, Colva beach and the Dudhsagar waterfall

Gujarat

The Rann of Kutch, the Gir lions and the Statue of Unity

  • Ahmedabad — Sabarmati Ashram and a UNESCO World Heritage walled city
  • Amreli — Eastern Gir forest around Dhari, lion country
  • Anand — Amul and the cooperative dairy movement of Kaira
  • Aravalli — Shamlaji Vishnu temple on the Meshwo river
  • Banaskantha — Ambaji Shakti Peeth and the Deesa potato belt
  • Bharuch — Narmada estuary; the Dahej and Ankleshwar chemical estates
  • Bhavnagar — Alang, the world's largest ship-breaking yard
  • Botad — Gadhada and Sarangpur Swaminarayan shrines
  • Chhota Udaipur — Pithora wall paintings of the Rathwa people
  • Dahod — Birthplace of Aurangzeb; railway workshop town
  • Dang — Saputara, Gujarat's only hill station
  • Devbhumi Dwarka — Krishna's Char Dham temple on the Gomti creek and the Beyt island shrine
  • Gandhinagar — State capital and the Akshardham complex
  • Gir Somnath — Jyotirlinga shrine on the Saurashtra coast and the last wild Asiatic lions
  • Jamnagar — Reliance's refinery complex, the world's largest; Marine National Park
  • Junagadh — Girnar's Jain temple hill and the Uparkot fort
  • Kheda — Satyagraha of 1918 led by Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel; Nadiad
  • Kutch — White Rann salt flats and the Harappan city of Dholavira
  • Mahisagar — Kadana dam on the Mahi; Lunawada
  • Mehsana — Modhera sun temple and Dudhsagar dairy
  • Morbi — Ceramic tile capital of India; wall-clock factories
  • Narmada — Statue of Unity and the Sardar Sarovar dam
  • Navsari — Dandi, where the 1930 Salt March ended
  • Panchmahal — Champaner-Pavagadh archaeological park, UNESCO-listed
  • Patan — Rani ki Vav stepwell and double-ikat patola weaving
  • Porbandar — Birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi; Kirti Mandir
  • Rajkot — Engineering and diesel-engine workshops; Gandhi's school town
  • Sabarkantha — Polo forest ruins near Vijaynagar; Idar
  • Surat — Cuts and polishes most of the world's diamonds
  • Surendranagar — Wild ass sanctuary of the Little Rann; cotton
  • Tapi — Ukai dam, Gujarat's largest reservoir; Vyara
  • Vadodara — Laxmi Vilas Palace of the Gaekwads
  • Valsad — Udvada Parsi fire temple and Alphonso mangoes; Vapi industry
  • Vav-Tharad — Nadabet border post; Gujarat's newest district (2025)

Haryana

Kurukshetra of the Mahabharata and the Gurugram business district

  • Ambala — Cantonment and scientific-instrument industry
  • Bhiwani — Boxing academies that produced Olympic medallists; 'mini Cuba'
  • Charkhi Dadri — Carved from Bhiwani in 2016; site of the 1996 mid-air collision
  • Faridabad — Industrial city and the Surajkund crafts fair
  • Fatehabad — Bhirrana, the oldest known Harappan site
  • Gurugram — Cyber City's corporate towers on Delhi's southwest edge
  • Hisar — Rakhigarhi, largest Harappan site in India
  • Jhajjar — Bahadurgarh footwear cluster; AIIMS campus at Badhsa
  • Jind — A Phulkian princely state until 1948; the Pandu-Pindara pilgrim tank
  • Kaithal — Vidkyar tank and the Rajia Sultan tomb
  • Karnal — Basmati rice belt and the National Dairy Research Institute
  • Kurukshetra — Brahma Sarovar and the Gita's battlefield
  • Mahendragarh — Narnaul's Mughal-era tombs and Dhosi Hill
  • Nuh — Mewat, homeland of the Meo people
  • Palwal — Where Gandhi was first arrested in India, April 1919
  • Panchkula — Pinjore Yadavindra Gardens and the Morni Hills
  • Panipat — Three decisive battles; handloom textile city
  • Rewari — Brass utensils and a heritage steam locomotive shed
  • Rohtak — Maharshi Dayanand University; Asthal Bohar math
  • Sirsa — Haryana's main cotton and kinnow belt
  • Sonipat — Rajiv Gandhi Education City; Murthal dhabas
  • Yamunanagar — Plywood capital of India; Jagadhri metalware; Kalesar park

Himachal Pradesh

Shimla, Dharamshala and apple orchards along the Sutlej and Beas

  • Bilaspur — Bhakra dam and the Gobind Sagar reservoir on the Sutlej
  • Chamba — Rumal embroidery, the Minjar fair and the hill station of Dalhousie
  • Hamirpur — Sujanpur Tira fort of the Katoch rajas
  • Kangra — Dharamshala, seat of the Dalai Lama; Masrur rock temples
  • Kinnaur — High-altitude apple orchards and the sacred Kailash peak above Kalpa
  • Kullu — Dussehra festival in October, Manali and the Beas valley apple orchards
  • Lahaul and Spiti — Key monastery, the cold desert beyond Kunzum and the Atal tunnel
  • Mandi — Rewalsar lake and the week-long Shivratri fair of March
  • Shimla — Summer capital of British India; the narrow-gauge railway from Kalka
  • Sirmaur — Renuka lake, Paonta Sahib gurdwara and Nahan
  • Solan — Mushroom city; Kasauli and the Kalka-Shimla line
  • Una — Chintpurni Shakti Peeth on the Punjab edge

Jammu & Kashmir

Valley on the Jhelum and the southern plains; saffron, apples and Dal Lake

  • Anantnag — Pahalgam, base for the Amarnath yatra, and the ruined Martand sun temple
  • Bandipora — Wular Lake, one of Asia's largest freshwater lakes, and the Gurez valley
  • Baramulla — Gulmarg's ski slopes and the Jhelum's exit from the valley at Uri
  • Budgam — Meadows of Yousmarg and Doodhpathri; site of Srinagar's airport
  • Doda — Bhaderwah valley, 'Mini Kashmir', on the Chenab's upper reaches
  • Ganderbal — Sonamarg on the road to Ladakh; Kheer Bhawani shrine and Manasbal Lake
  • Jammu — Winter capital of J&K; Raghunath temple and Bahu fort on the Tawi
  • Kathua — Basohli miniature paintings, a 17th-century Pahari school
  • Kishtwar — Sapphire mines of the Paddar valley and saffron fields on the Chenab
  • Kulgam — Rice bowl of the Kashmir valley; Aharbal waterfall on the Veshaw
  • Kupwara — Lolab valley and Bangus meadow beneath the Shamsbari range
  • Mirpur — Mangla Dam on the Jhelum, among the world's largest earth-fill dams
  • Muzaffarabad — Confluence of the Jhelum and Neelum (Kishanganga) rivers
  • Pulwama — Saffron fields of Pampore, source of most of India's saffron
  • Punch — Pir Panjal valleys of Loran and Mandi; Mughal Road to Kashmir
  • Rajouri — Pir Panjal foothills crossed by the Mughal Road via Pir Ki Gali
  • Ramban — Chenab gorge with the Baglihar dam and the Banihal pass tunnels
  • Reasi — Vaishno Devi shrine above Katra and the Chenab rail bridge, world's highest
  • Samba — Mansar Lake and the Jammu region's main industrial estate
  • Shopiyan — Apple orchards on the Pir Panjal slopes; Kashmir's apple capital
  • Srinagar — Dal Lake houseboats, Mughal gardens and the Jhelum's old city bridges
  • Udhampur — Army Northern Command headquarters; Patnitop hill resort

Jharkhand

India's coal, iron and mica belt on the Chota Nagpur plateau; Jamshedpur's steel

  • Bokaro — Steel plant, one of India's largest integrated steelworks, built with Soviet aid
  • Chatra — Bhadrakali temple complex at Itkhori, a Buddhist-Hindu-Jain site
  • Deoghar — Baidyanath Jyotirlinga, goal of the Shravani Mela kanwar pilgrimage
  • Dhanbad — Jharia coalfield, India's prime coking-coal source, and IIT (ISM)
  • Dumka — Santhal Pargana's headquarters; Basukinath temple and Masanjore dam
  • East Singhbhum — Jamshedpur, India's first planned industrial city, home of Tata Steel
  • Garhwa — Confluence of the Sone and Kanhar rivers on the Chhattisgarh-UP border
  • Giridih — Parasnath hill (Shikharji), the holiest Jain pilgrimage site
  • Godda — Lalmatia open-cast coal mine in the Rajmahal coalfield
  • Gumla — Anjan village, held in local tradition to be Hanuman's birthplace
  • Hazaribagh — Wildlife sanctuary and Canary Hill on the Chota Nagpur plateau
  • Jamtara — Karmatanr, where Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar spent his last 18 years
  • Khunti — Birthplace of Birsa Munda at Ulihatu; Panchghagh falls
  • Koderma — Mica capital of India, once supplying much of the world's mica
  • Latehar — Betla National Park and the Netarhat plateau, 'Queen of Chotanagpur'
  • Lohardaga — Bauxite mines on the Chota Nagpur plateau feeding Hindalco
  • Pakur — Black stone quarries; the Ganga plain meets the Rajmahal hills
  • Palamu — Forts of the Chero kings; Medininagar on the Koel river; Betla national park
  • Ramgarh — Chhinnamasta temple at Rajrappa, at the Damodar-Bhairavi confluence
  • Ranchi — State capital; Hundru, Dassam and Jonha waterfalls on the plateau rim
  • Sahibganj — Jharkhand's only stretch of the Ganga; Mandro fossil park in the Rajmahal hills
  • Saraikela-Kharsawan — Seraikela Chhau, the masked classical dance of its former princely court
  • Simdega — India's hockey nursery: Olympians Michael Kindo and Sylvanus Dung Dung
  • West Singhbhum — Saranda sal forest and the Noamundi and Gua iron-ore mines

Karnataka

Bengaluru's IT industry, Hampi's ruins and the Western Ghats' coffee hills

  • Bagalkote — Badami cave temples, Aihole and Pattadakal, cradle of Chalukyan architecture
  • Ballari — Hampi, the ruined Vijayanagara capital, and Sandur's iron-ore hills
  • Belagavi — Kittur, seat of Rani Chennamma's 1824 revolt; Suvarna Vidhana Soudha
  • Bengaluru Rural — Kempegowda International Airport at Devanahalli, Tipu Sultan's birthplace
  • Bengaluru Urban — State capital and the centre of India's IT industry; Vidhana Soudha and Lalbagh
  • Bidar — Silver-inlay metalwork in blackened alloy and the Bahmani-era fort
  • Chamarajanagara — Bandipur tiger reserve and the BR Hills, where Western meets Eastern Ghats
  • Chikkaballapura — Nandi Hills sunrise point; Bengaluru's grape and vegetable belt
  • Chikkamagaluru — Birthplace of Indian coffee at Baba Budangiri; Mullayanagiri, state's highest peak
  • Chitradurga — Seven-walled stone fort of the Nayaka chiefs on granite hills
  • Dakshina Kannada — Mangaluru port, Kudroli temple and the Tulu coast's cashew and fish exports
  • Davanagere — Benne dose and old cotton-mill town on the Bengaluru-Pune highway
  • Dharwad — Peda sweets and a nursery of Hindustani classical singers
  • Gadag — Lakkundi's Chalukyan temples and stepwells; the Trikuteshwara temple
  • Hassan — Hoysala temples of Belur and Halebidu; Shravanabelagola's Gommateshwara
  • Haveri — Byadgi chilli, the deep-red GI-tagged variety of Karnataka
  • Kalaburagi — Khwaja Banda Nawaz dargah and the Bahmani fort's Jama Masjid; tur dal
  • Kodagu — Coffee estates of Coorg and Talakaveri, source of the Cauvery
  • Kolar — Gold fields once among the world's deepest mines, closed in 2001
  • Koppal — Anegundi and Anjanadri hill, the Kishkindha of the Ramayana
  • Mandya — Sugarcane belt fed by the KRS dam on the Cauvery
  • Mysuru — Mysore Palace and the ten-day Dasara procession
  • Raichur — Krishna-Tungabhadra doab; Hatti gold mine and thermal power station
  • Ramanagara — Silk cocoon market and granite hills where Sholay was filmed
  • Shivamogga — Jog Falls on the Sharavathi, India's second-highest plunge waterfall
  • Tumakuru — Siddaganga Mutt and coconut groves; Devarayanadurga hills
  • Udupi — Sri Krishna Matha and the vegetarian restaurant cuisine that spread across India
  • Uttara Kannada — Gokarna beaches, Karwar port and Dandeli's Kali river rafting
  • Vijayapura — Gol Gumbaz, the Adil Shahi tomb under one of the world's largest domes
  • Yadgir — Hill fort on a 100-metre monolith above the Bhima river

Kerala

Backwaters, Kathakali and the Malabar coast; India's most literate state

  • Alappuzha — Backwater houseboats and the Nehru Trophy snake-boat race
  • Ernakulam — Kochi port and Fort Kochi's Chinese fishing nets
  • Idukki — Munnar tea estates and the arch dam on the Periyar
  • Kannur — Theyyam ritual dance and handloom weaving of the Malabar coast
  • Kasaragod — Bekal fort on the coast; Kerala's northernmost district
  • Kollam — Cashew processing capital and Ashtamudi Lake
  • Kottayam — Rubber plantations and Kumarakom on Vembanad Lake
  • Kozhikode — Kappad beach, where Vasco da Gama landed in 1498; Calicut halwa
  • Malappuram — Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala, seat of Ayurveda; Nilambur teak
  • Palakkad — Rice bowl of Kerala in the one broad gap through the Western Ghats
  • Pathanamthitta — Sabarimala temple in the Periyar forest; Aranmula mirrors
  • Thiruvananthapuram — State capital; Padmanabhaswamy temple and Kovalam beach
  • Thrissur — Pooram elephant festival at the Vadakkunnathan temple
  • Wayanad — Edakkal caves' petroglyphs and coffee-spice hills of the Ghats

Ladakh

High-altitude cold desert on the Indus; Leh, Pangong Tso and Buddhist gompas

  • Kargil — Suru valley beneath Nun-Kun; scene of the 1999 war on the heights
  • Leh — Pangong Tso, Khardung La and Thiksey monastery on the Indus

Lakshadweep

India's smallest UT: 36 coral islands and atolls in the Arabian Sea, tuna fishing

  • Lakshadweep — Coral atolls and lagoons; Kavaratti, Agatti airstrip and tuna fishing

Madhya Pradesh

Khajuraho, Sanchi and the Narmada; India's largest tiger population

  • Agar Malwa — Baglamukhi temple at Nalkheda on the Lakhundar river
  • Alirajpur — Bhabra, birthplace of Chandrashekhar Azad; Bhagoria haat festival
  • Anuppur — Amarkantak, source of the Narmada and Sone in the Maikal hills
  • Ashoknagar — Chanderi handloom sarees and the hill fort of Chanderi
  • Balaghat — Bharveli manganese mines and the southern buffer of Kanha
  • Barwani — Bawangaja's 84-foot rock-cut Jain statue of Adinatha
  • Betul — Multai, source of the Tapti river, on the Satpura plateau
  • Bhind — Chambal ravines and the Kwari river of the old dacoit country
  • Bhopal — State capital; Upper Lake and the Taj-ul-Masajid, one of India's largest mosques
  • Burhanpur — Mughal Deccan capital on the Tapti; Asirgarh fort and Shahi Qila
  • Chhatarpur — Khajuraho's Chandela temples, a UNESCO World Heritage site
  • Chhindwara — Patalkot valley of the Bharia tribe and the Pench coalfield
  • Damoh — Nohleshwar temple at Nohta, a 10th-century Kalachuri shrine
  • Datia — Seven-storey Bir Singh Deo palace and the Pitambara Peeth
  • Dewas — Bank Note Press and the twin hilltop shrines of Chamunda and Tulja
  • Dhar — Mandu's Jahaz Mahal and the Afghan monuments of the Malwa sultans
  • Dindori — Ghughua fossil park and Baiga tribal villages of the Maikal hills
  • Guna — Bajrangarh fort on the Chapet river; NFL fertiliser plant at Vijaipur
  • Gwalior — Hilltop fort, Tansen's tomb and the Scindias' Jai Vilas palace
  • Harda — Handia's Riddhnath temple on the Narmada; wheat and soybean plain
  • Hoshangabad — Pachmarhi hill station and Satpura tiger reserve; now Narmadapuram
  • Indore — Commercial capital of MP and India's cleanest city; Rajwada palace
  • Jabalpur — Marble Rocks gorge of the Narmada at Bhedaghat
  • Jhabua — Kadaknath black chicken and Bhil bead craft
  • Katni — Limestone and marble quarries; major railway junction
  • Khandwa — Omkareshwar Jyotirlinga on a Narmada island; Kishore Kumar's birthplace
  • Khargone — Maheshwar on the Narmada: Ahilyabai's fort and Maheshwari sarees
  • Mandla — Kanha tiger reserve's core, setting of Kipling's Jungle Book
  • Mandsaur — Licensed opium poppy fields and the Pashupatinath temple
  • Morena — Chausath Yogini temple at Mitaoli and the Chambal gharial sanctuary
  • Narsinghpur — Sugarcane and gur (jaggery) belt on the Narmada's south bank
  • Neemuch — Birthplace of the CRPF in 1939; Gandhi Sagar dam on the Chambal
  • Niwari — Orchha's Bundela palaces and cenotaphs on the Betwa
  • Panna — India's only working diamond mines and a tiger reserve on the Ken
  • Raisen — Sanchi stupa and the Bhimbetka rock shelters
  • Rajgarh — Narsinghgarh fort above Chidikho bird sanctuary
  • Ratlam — Gram-flour sev, gold ornaments and a major rail junction
  • Rewa — Where the white tiger Mohan was captured in 1951; an ultra mega solar park
  • Sagar — Lake in the town centre and Dr Harisingh Gour University, founded 1946
  • Satna — Cement capital of MP; Sharda Devi temple at Maihar
  • Sehore — Sharbati wheat and the Salkanpur hilltop temple
  • Seoni — Pench tiger reserve, Mowgli country of the Seonee hills
  • Shahdol — Sohagpur coalfield and the Kalachuri-era Virateshwar temple
  • Shajapur — Founded by Shah Jahan around 1640; Maksi rail junction on the Malwa plateau
  • Sheopur — Kuno National Park, where cheetahs were reintroduced in 2022
  • Shivpuri — Madhav National Park and the marble Scindia chhatris
  • Sidhi — Sanjay Dubri tiger reserve on the Sone river
  • Singrauli — Coal mines and power plants that make it India's energy capital
  • Tikamgarh — Garh Kundar fort of the Khangar kings; Kundeshwar temple
  • Ujjain — Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga and the Simhastha Kumbh on the Shipra
  • Umaria — Bandhavgarh tiger reserve, with India's densest tiger population
  • Vidisha — Udayagiri caves and the Heliodorus pillar of 2nd century BCE

Maharashtra

Mumbai's finance and film industry, Ajanta-Ellora caves and sugarcane belts

  • Ahmednagar — Shirdi Sai Baba shrine and Shani Shingnapur's doorless village
  • Akola — Cotton belt of Vidarbha; Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh agricultural university
  • Amravati — Melghat tiger reserve and Chikhaldara, Vidarbha's only hill station
  • Aurangabad — Ajanta and Ellora caves; Bibi ka Maqbara, the 'Deccan Taj'
  • Beed — Parli Vaijnath Jyotirlinga; source of Maharashtra's sugarcane cutters
  • Bhandara — Brass utensil industry and rice paddies of eastern Vidarbha
  • Buldhana — Lonar crater lake, formed by a meteorite impact in basalt
  • Chandrapur — Tadoba-Andhari tiger reserve and a coal belt with thermal power stations
  • Dhule — Laling fort of the Faruqi kings on the Panzara river
  • Gadchiroli — Bamboo forests and the Surjagarh iron-ore hills
  • Gondia — Navegaon-Nagzira tiger reserve and rice mills
  • Hingoli — Aundha Nagnath Jyotirlinga, a Hemadpanti temple
  • Jalgaon — Banana capital of India; Ajanta caves lie just across its border
  • Jalna — India's seed-company capital and sweet-lime (mosambi) orchards
  • Kolhapur — Mahalaxmi temple, leather chappals and kusti wrestling pits
  • Latur — Epicentre of the 1993 Killari earthquake; a hub of exam coaching schools
  • Mumbai — India's financial capital and Bollywood; Gateway of India
  • Nagpur — Orange city at India's geographic centre; Deekshabhoomi
  • Nanded — Hazur Sahib, where Guru Gobind Singh died, on the Godavari
  • Nandurbar — Toranmal hill station in the Satpuras; Sardar Sarovar's submergence zone
  • Nashik — Wine capital of India; Trimbakeshwar and the Kumbh Mela on the Godavari
  • Osmanabad — Tuljapur's Tulja Bhavani temple, patron deity of Shivaji
  • Palghar — Vasai fort of the Portuguese and Dahanu's chikoo orchards
  • Parbhani — Vasantrao Naik agricultural university; cotton and jowar country
  • Pune — Shaniwar Wada of the Peshwas; auto plants, IT parks and the Deccan universities
  • Raigad — Shivaji's hilltop capital; JNPT, India's busiest container port
  • Ratnagiri — Alphonso mango orchards and the birthplace of Lokmanya Tilak
  • Sangli — India's biggest turmeric market and grape vineyards
  • Satara — Kaas plateau wildflowers and Mahabaleshwar strawberries
  • Sindhudurg — Sea fort built by Shivaji on an islet off Malvan in 1664
  • Solapur — Handloom chaddars and towels; Pandharpur's Vithoba temple
  • Thane — City of lakes; flamingos winter on the creek beyond Mumbai
  • Wardha — Gandhi's Sevagram ashram and Vinoba Bhave's Paunar
  • Washim — Pohradevi, the 'Kashi of the Banjaras', and Sant Sevalal's samadhi
  • Yavatmal — Cotton city of Vidarbha; Tipeshwar wildlife sanctuary

Manipur

Loktak Lake's floating phumdis and the birthplace of modern polo

  • Bishnupur — Loktak Lake and Keibul Lamjao, the world's only floating national park
  • Chandel — Hill district on the Myanmar frontier; home of the Anal and Lamkang Nagas
  • Churachandpur — Lamka, Manipur's second-largest town, in the Kuki-Zo hills
  • Imphal East — Andro village, its traditional pottery and the Mutua folk museum
  • Imphal West — Kangla Fort, seat of the Meitei kings, and Ima Keithel, the all-women market
  • Jiribam — Manipur's gateway on the Assam border and its first railhead
  • Kakching — Vegetable-farming plain and Sugnu on the Manipur River
  • Kamjong — Tangkhul Naga hills on the Myanmar border, carved from Ukhrul in 2016
  • Kangpokpi — Mount Koubru, sacred to the Meiteis, on the Imphal-Dimapur highway
  • Noney — Site of the world's tallest railway pier bridge on the Jiribam-Imphal line
  • Pherzawl — Hmar hills at Tipaimukh, where the Barak bends north toward Assam
  • Senapati — Mao Gate on the Nagaland border and Mount Tenipu, Manipur's highest peak
  • Tamenglong — Orange orchards and the Barak waterfalls in Zeliangrong country
  • Tengnoupal — Moreh, the border trading town on the road to Myanmar
  • Thoubal — Khongjom battlefield of 1891 and its memorial with the world's tallest sword
  • Ukhrul — Shirui Lily, found nowhere else on Earth, on the Shirui peak

Meghalaya

Cherrapunji and Mawsynram, the wettest places on Earth; living root bridges

  • East Garo Hills — Williamnagar on the Simsang river; flank of the Nokrek biosphere reserve
  • East Jaintia Hills — Coal and limestone country around Khliehriat; rat-hole mines banned in 2014
  • East Khasi Hills — Shillong, Cherrapunji and the living root bridges of Nongriat
  • North Garo Hills — Mendipathar, Meghalaya's only railway station, opened in 2014
  • Ribhoi — Umiam Lake, the reservoir at Barapani, and pineapple farms around Nongpoh
  • South Garo Hills — Balpakram National Park and the Siju limestone caves
  • South West Garo Hills — Mir Jumla's tomb near Ampati, on the plains toward Bangladesh
  • South West Khasi Hills — Ranikor on the Jadukata river at the Bangladesh border
  • West Garo Hills — Tura; Nokrek peak with wild Citrus indica; the Wangala harvest dance
  • West Jaintia Hills — Nartiang monoliths, Thadlaskein lake and the Behdienkhlam festival at Jowai
  • West Khasi Hills — Nongkhnum, Meghalaya's largest river island, and the Kyllang Rock dome

Mizoram

Ridge-top towns and bamboo forests between Myanmar and Bangladesh

  • Aizawl — Ridge-top state capital at about 1,100 m above the Tlawng valley
  • Champhai — Mizoram's rice bowl; the Zokhawthar crossing to Myanmar and Murlen park
  • Hnahthial — Jhum-farmed hills south of Aizawl; a district only since 2019
  • Khawzawl — Khawnglung Wildlife Sanctuary; carved from Champhai in 2019
  • Kolasib — Vairengte's jungle warfare school and the Bairabi railhead on the Assam border
  • Lawngtlai — Seat of the Lai and Chakma autonomous councils on the Kaladan road
  • Lunglei — Mizoram's second town, named for a natural rock bridge over a stream
  • Mamit — Dampa Tiger Reserve along the Bangladesh border; Reiek hill
  • Saiha — Phawngpui, the Blue Mountain, Mizoram's highest peak at 2,157 m
  • Serchhip — Vantawng Falls, Mizoram's tallest, and the Thenzawl handloom village

Nagaland

Homeland of 17 Naga tribes; the Hornbill Festival at Kisama each December

  • Dimapur — Nagaland's commercial city, railhead and airport; Kachari monolith ruins
  • Kiphire — Mount Saramati, Nagaland's highest peak at 3,826 m on the Myanmar border
  • Kohima — Battle of 1944 that turned the Japanese back; War Cemetery; Hornbill Festival at Kisama
  • Longleng — Home of the Phom Nagas, carved from Tuensang in 2004
  • Mokokchung — Ao Naga homeland; the Moatsu festival and Ungma, the largest Ao village
  • Mon — Konyak country; Longwa village, where the chief's house straddles Myanmar
  • Peren — Ntangki National Park and Mount Pauna in Zeliang country
  • Phek — Chakhesang rice terraces, Shilloi lake and Pfutsero, Nagaland's highest town
  • Tuensang — Home of the Chang, Yimkhiung and Sangtam Nagas in eastern Nagaland
  • Wokha — Lotha country; Amur falcons roost by the million at Pangti on the Doyang
  • Zunheboto — Sumi Naga homeland; its Baptist church is among the largest in Asia

Odisha

Jagannath temple at Puri, Konark's Sun Temple and the Chilika lagoon

  • Angul — NALCO's aluminium smelter and the Talcher coalfields
  • Balangir — Harishankar shrine at the foot of the Gandhamardan hills
  • Balasore — Chandipur's receding sea and the DRDO missile test range
  • Bargarh — Dhanuyatra, the world's largest open-air theatre, staged each January
  • Bhadrak — Dhamra port and the Akhandalamani Shiva temple at Aradi
  • Boudh — Mahanadi-bank district with 8th-century Buddha statues in the town
  • Cuttack — Silver filigree, Barabati fort and the Bali Yatra fair on the Mahanadi
  • Deogarh — Pradhanpat waterfall; former seat of the Bamra princely state
  • Dhenkanal — Kapilash Shiva temple and Joranda, seat of the Mahima sect
  • Gajapati — Mahendragiri peak and the Saora tribe around Paralakhemundi
  • Ganjam — Berhampur silk, the Tara Tarini shrine and Gopalpur beach
  • Jagatsinghpur — Paradip port; landfall of the 1999 super cyclone
  • Jajpur — Biraja Shakti temple and the Kalinganagar steel belt
  • Jharsuguda — Vedanta's aluminium smelter and the Ib valley coalfields
  • Kalahandi — Once a byword for famine, now a rice-surplus district around Bhawanipatna
  • Kandhamal — GI-tagged turmeric and the hill station of Daringbadi
  • Kendrapara — Bhitarkanika mangroves and Gahirmatha's olive ridley turtle rookery
  • Kendujhar — Iron-ore mining belt; Khandadhar falls
  • Khordha — Bhubaneswar, the state capital; Lingaraj temple; the Paika revolt of 1817
  • Koraput — Tribal-grown coffee, Damanjodi bauxite and Deomali, Odisha's highest peak
  • Malkangiri — Balimela reservoir and the Bonda tribe's hills
  • Mayurbhanj — Simlipal tiger reserve and a Chhau dance style of the former princely state
  • Nabarangapur — Odisha's largest maize-growing district
  • Nayagarh — Raghunath temple at Odagaon; southern bank of the Satkosia gorge
  • Nuapada — Sunabeda plateau and its wildlife sanctuary on the Chhattisgarh border
  • Puri — Jagannath temple and the Rath Yatra; Konark's Sun Temple
  • Rayagada — Niyamgiri hills, home of the Dongria Kondh and the bauxite dispute
  • Sambalpur — Hirakud Dam, the world's longest earthen dam, and ikat handloom sarees
  • Subarnapur — Temple town at the Mahanadi-Tel confluence; Bomkai handloom
  • Sundargarh — Rourkela Steel Plant, India's first public-sector steel plant; hockey nursery

Puducherry

Four former French enclaves; the colonial White Town on the Coromandel coast

  • Karaikal — Tirunallar's Saniswaran temple and a former French enclave's port
  • Mahe — Former French enclave on Kerala's Malabar coast
  • Puducherry — French Quarter, the Aurobindo Ashram and the seafront promenade
  • Yanam — Former French enclave in the Godavari delta of Andhra Pradesh

Punjab

Land of five rivers; the Golden Temple and India's wheat-and-rice granary

  • Amritsar — Golden Temple, Jallianwala Bagh and the Wagah border ceremony
  • Barnala — Trident's textile mills at Sanghera
  • Bathinda — Guru Gobind Singh refinery, Qila Mubarak and the Malwa cotton belt
  • Faridkot — Qila Mubarak and the Raj Mahal palace of a former Sikh princely state
  • Fatehgarh Sahib — Gurdwara marking the 1705 martyrdom of Guru Gobind Singh's younger sons
  • Fazilka — Abohar kinnow orchards and the Sadiqi border post
  • Ferozepur — Hussainiwala, where Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were cremated
  • Gurdaspur — Dera Baba Nanak and the Kartarpur corridor; Batala's foundries
  • Hoshiarpur — GI-tagged wood inlay craft in the Shivalik foothills
  • Jalandhar — India's sports-goods capital; cricket bats, footballs and leather
  • Kapurthala — Jagatjit Palace, built on Versailles lines; the Rail Coach Factory
  • Ludhiana — Hosiery and bicycles; Punjab's largest city
  • Mansa — Cotton fields of the Malwa; Budhlada and Sardulgarh
  • Moga — Nestle's first Indian factory, opened in 1961
  • Pathankot — Gateway to Jammu and Himachal; the Ranjit Sagar dam on the Ravi
  • Patiala — Seat of the Phulkian maharajas; the outsized whisky peg and baggy salwar named for it
  • Rupnagar — Anandpur Sahib, birthplace of the Khalsa in 1699; Harappan finds at Rupar
  • S.A.S. Nagar — Mohali, the planned satellite of Chandigarh; PCA cricket stadium
  • Sangrur — Paddy-and-wheat district of the Malwa plains; Banasar Bagh garden
  • Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar — Khatkar Kalan, ancestral village of the revolutionary hanged in 1931
  • Sri Muktsar Sahib — Battle of 1705 and the Maghi Mela honouring the forty Sikh martyrs
  • Tarn Taran — Gurdwara with the largest sarovar of any Sikh shrine; Harike wetland

Rajasthan

India's largest state; the Thar desert and the hill forts of Rajputana

  • Ajmer — Dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti; Pushkar's Brahma temple and camel fair
  • Alwar — Sariska tiger reserve and the abandoned fort of Bhangarh
  • Banswara — City of a hundred islands on the Mahi reservoir
  • Baran — Shahabad fort and the Sitabari fair of the Sahariya tribe
  • Barmer — Mangala oilfield, India's largest onshore find; the Pachpadra refinery
  • Bharatpur — Keoladeo bird sanctuary, a World Heritage wetland; Lohagarh fort
  • Bhilwara — Textile city of Rajasthan, spinning polyester and suiting
  • Bikaner — Junagarh fort, spicy bhujia snack and the rat temple at Deshnoke
  • Bundi — Stepwells such as Raniji ki Baori and a school of miniature painting
  • Chittorgarh — Chittor, India's largest fort, with the Vijay Stambh tower
  • Churu — Shekhawati havelis and the blackbuck sanctuary at Tal Chhapar
  • Dausa — Chand Baori at Abhaneri, one of India's deepest stepwells
  • Dholpur — Red sandstone quarried for Delhi's Parliament; Chambal ravines
  • Dungarpur — Baneshwar fair at the Mahi-Som confluence; Bhil heartland
  • Ganganagar — Gang Canal of 1927 that turned desert into farmland; kinnow orchards
  • Hanumangarh — Kalibangan Harappan site and Bhatner fort on the Ghaggar
  • Jaipur — The Pink City: Hawa Mahal, Amber fort and Jantar Mantar
  • Jaisalmer — Golden Fort, a living fort in the Thar; the Sam sand dunes
  • Jalore — Granite quarries; a hill fort; Bhinmal, town of the mathematician Brahmagupta
  • Jhalawar — Gagron, the hill-and-water fort; orange orchards
  • Jhunjhunu — Fresco-painted havelis of Mandawa and Nawalgarh; Rani Sati temple
  • Jodhpur — Mehrangarh fort above the Blue City; Umaid Bhawan palace
  • Karauli — Kaila Devi temple, a Shakti Peeth, and the pink sandstone quarries
  • Kota — Coaching-institute capital; fine Doria sarees woven at Kaithun
  • Nagaur — Cattle fair every February and the Ahhichatragarh fort
  • Pali — Ranakpur Jain temple with its 1,444 carved pillars
  • Pratapgarh — Thewa, gold filigree on glass, a GI-tagged craft
  • Rajsamand — Kumbhalgarh fort, Haldighati battlefield and the Shrinathji temple at Nathdwara
  • Sawai Madhopur — Ranthambore tiger reserve and its hilltop fort
  • Sikar — Khatu Shyamji temple and the painted havelis of Fatehpur and Laxmangarh
  • Sirohi — Mount Abu, Rajasthan's only hill station; the Dilwara Jain temples
  • Tonk — Former Nawabi state; the Arabic and Persian manuscript institute
  • Udaipur — City of Lakes: Pichola, the Lake Palace and the City Palace

Sikkim

Kangchenjunga, the world's third-highest peak; India's first fully organic state

  • East Sikkim — Gangtok, the Nathu La pass into Tibet, Tsomgo lake and Rumtek monastery
  • North Sikkim — Gurudongmar lake at 5,430 m and the Yumthang valley of flowers
  • South Sikkim — Samdruptse's giant Padmasambhava statue and the Temi tea garden
  • West Sikkim — Yuksom, the first capital, and Pemayangtse monastery beneath Kangchenjunga

Tamil Nadu

Chola temples of Thanjavur, Meenakshi's Madurai and the car factories of Chennai

  • Ariyalur — Gangaikonda Cholapuram, a World Heritage Chola temple; cement belt
  • Chengalpattu — Mamallapuram's shore temple and the Vedanthangal bird sanctuary
  • Chennai — State capital; Marina Beach and Fort St George
  • Coimbatore — Manchester of South India: textile mills, pumps and motors
  • Cuddalore — Chidambaram's Nataraja temple and the Pichavaram mangroves
  • Dharmapuri — Hogenakkal falls on the Kaveri
  • Dindigul — Locks, a namesake biryani and the hill station of Kodaikanal
  • Erode — Turmeric market and the Bhavani jamakkalam weaves
  • Kallakurichi — Sugar mills and the Kalvarayan hills; carved from Viluppuram in 2019
  • Kancheepuram — Kanchipuram silk and the Pallava temples of the thousand-temple city
  • Kanyakumari — Land's end: Vivekananda Rock and the Thiruvalluvar statue
  • Karur — Home-textile exports and bus-body building
  • Krishnagiri — Mango orchards and the industrial town of Hosur
  • Madurai — Meenakshi Amman temple and the GI-tagged malli jasmine
  • Nagapattinam — Velankanni basilica and the Nagore dargah
  • Namakkal — India's egg city; Kolli hills; truck-body workshops
  • Nilgiris — Ooty and the Nilgiri Mountain Railway; tea estates on Doddabetta's slopes
  • Perambalur — Tamil Nadu's leading maize district; Ranjankudi fort
  • Pudukkottai — Sittanavasal Jain cave paintings and Thirumayam fort
  • Ramanathapuram — Rameswaram, the Pamban bridge and the ghost town of Dhanushkodi
  • Ranipet — Leather tanneries and the BHEL boiler works
  • Salem — Steel plant, sago factories, Mettur dam and the Yercaud hills
  • Sivaganga — Karaikudi and the Chettinad mansions
  • Tenkasi — Courtallam falls, the Spa of the South
  • Thanjavur — Brihadeeswarar temple; Tanjore paintings; the Kaveri delta rice bowl
  • Theni — Cumbum valley grapes, the Vaigai dam and the Meghamalai hills
  • Thiruvallur — Avadi's tank factory, Ennore port and the Pulicat lagoon
  • Thiruvarur — Birthplace of the Carnatic trinity; the Azhi Ther, Asia's largest temple car
  • Thoothukkudi — Pearl-fishing port, salt pans and the V.O. Chidambaram harbour
  • Tiruchirappalli — Rockfort and Srirangam, the largest functioning Hindu temple
  • Tirunelveli — Wheat halwa, the Kanthimathi Amman temple and the Agasthiyar falls
  • Tirupathur — Ambur and Vaniyambadi leather; the Yelagiri hill station
  • Tiruppur — Knitwear capital of India; cotton hosiery exports on the Noyyal
  • Tiruvannamalai — Arunachaleswarar temple, Karthigai Deepam and the Ramana ashram
  • Vellore — Moated fort, the 1806 sepoy mutiny and the CMC hospital
  • Viluppuram — Gingee fort, the Troy of the East; Auroville
  • Virudhunagar — Sivakasi's fireworks, matches and printing presses

Telangana

Hyderabad's Charminar, Kakatiya temples at Warangal, and the Godavari–Krishna basins

  • Adilabad — Kuntala Falls on the Kadam river, the highest waterfall in Telangana
  • Bhadradri Kothagudem — Bhadrachalam's Rama temple on the Godavari; Singareni coalfields
  • Hyderabad — Charminar, Golconda Fort and Hussain Sagar lake; dum biryani
  • Jagtial — Star-shaped fort of 1747, laid out with French engineers
  • Jangaon — Pembarthi's brass sheet-metal craft, a GI-tagged tradition
  • Jayashankar Bhupalapally — Kaleshwaram temple where the Pranahita meets the Godavari; the Medigadda barrage
  • Jogulamba Gadwal — Silk-cotton sarees and the Shakti Peetha at Alampur on the Tungabhadra
  • Kamareddy — Domakonda Fort, restored and honoured by UNESCO in 2022
  • Karimnagar — Silver filigree work, a GI-tagged craft; Elgandal Fort on the Manair
  • Khammam — Fort on Stambhadri hill, with Kakatiya and Qutb Shahi phases
  • Komaram Bheem — Gond country on the Pranahita, headquartered at Asifabad
  • Mahabubabad — Bayyaram's iron-ore deposits and the Kuravi Veerabhadra temple
  • Mahabubnagar — Pillalamarri, a banyan some 700 years old spreading over three acres
  • Mancherial — Singareni coal mines along the Godavari; cement plants
  • Medak — Cathedral of 1924, among the largest churches in Asia
  • Medchal Malkajgiri — Hyderabad's northern suburbs and the Air Force Academy at Dundigal
  • Mulugu — Ramappa Temple, a World Heritage Site since 2021; the Medaram jatara
  • Nagarkurnool — Nallamala forests of the Amrabad Tiger Reserve; Mallela Theertham falls
  • Nalgonda — Nagarjuna Sagar dam on the Krishna, one of the world's largest masonry dams
  • Narayanpet — Handloom sarees in cotton and silk with temple borders
  • Nirmal — Lacquered-wood toys and paintings, a GI-tagged craft
  • Nizamabad — Turmeric fields around Armoor and the Nizam Sagar dam on the Manjira
  • Peddapalli — Ramagundam, site of NTPC's 2,600 MW thermal power station
  • Rajanna Sircilla — Vemulawada's Shiva temple and the power-loom weaving town
  • Ranga Reddy — Shamshabad's international airport and the IT belt of Gachibowli
  • Sangareddy — ICRISAT's dryland-crop research campus at Patancheru
  • Siddipet — Gollabhama handloom sarees, a GI-tagged weave; Mallanna Sagar reservoir
  • Suryapet — Phanigiri Buddhist stupa site and the Kakatiya temples of Pillalamarri
  • Vikarabad — Ananthagiri hills, where the Musi river rises
  • Wanaparthy — Seat of a samsthanam whose palace now houses a polytechnic college
  • Warangal Rural — Pakhal Lake, a 13th-century Kakatiya reservoir, and its wildlife sanctuary
  • Warangal Urban — Kakatiya capital: stone gateways of the fort and the Thousand Pillar Temple
  • Yadadri Bhuvanagiri — Yadagirigutta's Narasimha temple, Bhongir rock fort and Pochampally ikat

Tripura

Unakoti's rock-cut Shiva faces and the Ujjayanta Palace at Agartala

  • Dhalai — Ambassa on the river, between the Atharamura and Longtharai ranges
  • Gomati — Tripura Sundari temple at Udaipur, a Shakti Peetha; Dumbur lake
  • Khowai — Border river valley below the Baramura range; Teliamura market town
  • North Tripura — Jampui Hills, the state's highest range, with orange orchards
  • Sipahijala — Neermahal, the lake palace on Rudrasagar, and Sepahijala sanctuary
  • South Tripura — Pilak's 8th-century Buddhist and Hindu ruins; Maitri Setu bridge to Bangladesh
  • Unokoti — Unakoti's colossal rock-cut Shiva faces, carved between the 7th and 9th centuries
  • West Tripura — Agartala and the Ujjayanta Palace, now the state museum

Uttar Pradesh

Taj Mahal, Varanasi's ghats and the Kumbh at Prayagraj; India's most populous state

  • Agra — The Taj Mahal, Akbar's riverside fort and Fatehpur Sikri; petha sweets
  • Aligarh — Lock-making industry and the Muslim University founded by Sir Syed
  • Ambedkar Nagar — Tanda's power-loom cloth and the Kichauchha Sharif dargah
  • Amethi — Long a Gandhi family parliamentary seat; Gauriganj is the HQ
  • Amroha — Dholak drums made from mango wood; mango orchards on the Ganga's east bank
  • Auraiya — Desi ghee trade and the NTPC gas-fired plant at Dibiyapur
  • Ayodhya — Birthplace of Rama by tradition; the Ram Mandir on the Saryu
  • Azamgarh — Nizamabad black pottery and Mubarakpur silk weaving
  • Baghpat — Sugarcane belt; Barnava is tied to the Mahabharata's lac-house tale
  • Bahraich — Katarniaghat sanctuary on the Nepal border; Syed Salar Masud's dargah
  • Ballia — Freed itself from British rule for days in 1942; the Ddadri cattle fair
  • Balrampur — Devi Patan temple at Tulsipur and the Sohelwa forests on the Nepal border
  • Banda — Kalinjar Fort in the Vindhyas, and Shajar stone from the Ken river
  • Barabanki — Dewa Sharif dargah of Haji Waris Ali Shah; mentha (mint) farming
  • Bareilly — Surma, zari-zardozi work and cane furniture; Ahichchhatra ruins
  • Basti — Kuano river town on the Gorakhpur–Lucknow highway; sugar mills
  • Bhadohi — Hand-knotted carpets, India's largest carpet-weaving cluster
  • Bijnor — Sugarcane and the Ganga; Vidur Kuti, hermitage of the Mahabharata sage
  • Budaun — Shamsi Jama Masjid of 1223, among India's oldest mosques
  • Bulandshahr — Khurja's glazed pottery and the Narora atomic power station on the Ganga
  • Chandauli — Chandraprabha sanctuary and its Rajdari falls; the 'rice bowl' of Purvanchal
  • Chitrakoot — Rama's exile forest by tradition; Kamadgiri and the Mandakini ghats
  • Deoria — Sugarcane country on the Bihar border; Devraha Baba's ashram at Mail
  • Etah — Jalesar's brass bells and ghungroos; Patna bird sanctuary
  • Etawah — Lion Safari park and the Chambal ravines
  • Farrukhabad — Sankisa's Ashokan elephant capital; hand block printing; potato belt
  • Fatehpur — Doab district between Ganga and Yamuna; the 1858 Bawani Imli martyrs' tree
  • Firozabad — Glass bangles and glassware, India's glass-industry capital
  • Gautam Buddha Nagar — Noida and Greater Noida; the Buddh F1 circuit and Jewar airport
  • Ghaziabad — Industrial gateway to Delhi on the Hindon; Hindon Air Force station
  • Ghazipur — Government Opium and Alkaloid Works, founded 1820; Cornwallis's tomb
  • Gonda — Chhapaiya, birthplace of Swaminarayan; rice and sugar mills
  • Gorakhpur — Gorakhnath Math and the Gita Press, publisher of Hindu scripture
  • Hamirpur — Betwa meets the Yamuna at the district town; Bundelkhand's gateway
  • Hapur — Papad making and one of north India's largest grain mandis
  • Hardoi — Legend places the demon-king Hiranyakashipu's capital here; Sandila laddoos
  • Hathras — Asafoetida (hing) processing hub; home of a celebrated Hindi humorist
  • Jalaun — Kalpi on the Yamuna, a handmade-paper town and Birbal's birthplace
  • Jaunpur — Sharqi-era Atala Masjid and the 16th-century Shahi Bridge over the Gomti
  • Jhansi — Fort held by Rani Lakshmibai against the British in 1857-58
  • Kannauj — Attar distilleries, India's perfume capital since Harsha's time
  • Kanpur Dehat — Rural hinterland between the Yamuna and Rind rivers; HQ at Mati-Akbarpur
  • Kanpur Nagar — Leather tanneries and textile mills on the Ganga; 'Manchester of the East'
  • Kasganj — Soron's Ganga ghat, Sukar Kshetra, a claimed birthplace of Tulsidas
  • Kaushambi — Ruins of Kausambi, capital of Vatsa, with an Ashokan pillar
  • Kushinagar — Where the Buddha died; the Mahaparinirvana temple's reclining statue
  • Lakhimpur Kheri — Dudhwa National Park; UP's largest district, on the Nepal border
  • Lalitpur — Deogarh's Gupta-era Dashavatara temple on the Betwa
  • Lucknow — Bara Imambara, chikankari embroidery and Awadhi cuisine
  • Maharajganj — Sonauli crossing to Nepal and the Sohgibarwa wildlife sanctuary
  • Mahoba — Chandela capital with Madan Sagar lake; Alha-Udal ballads; Desawari paan
  • Mainpuri — Tarkashi brass-wire inlay on wood, a GI-tagged craft
  • Mathura — Krishna's birthplace by tradition; Vrindavan temples and peda sweets
  • Mau — Power-loom saree weaving town on the Tamsa (Tons) river
  • Meerut — Where the 1857 uprising began; sports goods and scissors industries
  • Mirzapur — Vindhyavasini temple, Chunar Fort on the Ganga; carpet weaving
  • Moradabad — Brassware exports; 'Peetal Nagri', the brass city
  • Muzaffarnagar — Sugarcane and one of Asia's largest gur (jaggery) markets; Shukratal
  • Pilibhit — Tiger reserve on the Nepal border and the bamboo-flute (bansuri) industry
  • Pratapgarh — Amla (Indian gooseberry) orchards and products; Belha Devi temple
  • Prayagraj — Sangam of Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati; site of the Kumbh Mela
  • Rae Bareli — Modern Coach Factory at Lalganj; the Gandhi family's Lok Sabha seat
  • Rampur — Raza Library's manuscripts, folding knives and a hound breed
  • Saharanpur — Wood-carving industry; mango orchards; Shakumbhari Devi temple
  • Sambhal — Horn-and-bone crafts; Kalki, Vishnu's tenth avatar, is prophesied to be born here
  • Sant Kabir Nagar — Maghar, where the weaver-poet died and a tomb and samadhi stand side by side
  • Shahjahanpur — Birthplace of revolutionaries Ram Prasad Bismil and Ashfaqulla Khan; sugar mills
  • Shamli — Sugarcane mills on the Yamuna; Kairana gave its name to the Kirana gharana
  • Shrawasti — Sravasti's Jetavana monastery, where the Buddha spent many rainy seasons
  • Siddharthnagar — Piprahwa stupa, a candidate for Kapilavastu; Kala Namak scented rice
  • Sitapur — Naimisharanya, forest shrine where the Puranas were recited; a noted eye hospital
  • Sonbhadra — Rihand Dam and coal-fired power stations; borders four states
  • Sultanpur — On the Gomti; tradition names it after Rama's son Kush (Kushbhawanpur)
  • Unnao — Nawabganj bird sanctuary; leather tanning; the Ganga's left bank facing Kanpur
  • Varanasi — Ganga ghats, Kashi Vishwanath temple and Banarasi silk brocade

Uttarakhand

Char Dham shrines of Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamunotri

  • Almora — Kumaoni hill town with Jageshwar's deodar-shaded temples; bal mithai
  • Bageshwar — Bagnath temple at the Saryu–Gomti confluence; base for Pindari Glacier
  • Chamoli — Badrinath, Hemkund Sahib and the Valley of Flowers; Auli ski slopes
  • Champawat — Purnagiri temple; the man-eating tigress shot by Jim Corbett in 1907
  • Dehradun — State capital; Forest Research Institute, the IMA, and Mussoorie above
  • Haridwar — Har Ki Pauri ghat where the Ganga leaves the hills; Kumbh Mela site
  • Nainital — Naini Lake hill station; Jim Corbett National Park's Ramnagar gateway
  • Pauri Garhwal — Lansdowne cantonment, raised for a hill regiment in 1887; Himalayan panorama
  • Pithoragarh — Munsiyari and the Panchachuli peaks; Kailash–Mansarovar route via Lipulekh
  • Rudraprayag — Kedarnath shrine; the Alaknanda meets the Mandakini at the district town
  • Tehri Garhwal — India's tallest dam on the Bhagirathi and the planned town above its reservoir
  • Udham Singh Nagar — Terai plains; G.B. Pant University, India's first agricultural university
  • Uttarkashi — Gangotri and Yamunotri shrines; the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering

West Bengal

Kolkata, Darjeeling tea gardens and the Sundarbans mangrove delta

  • Alipurduar — Buxa Tiger Reserve and Jaldapara's one-horned rhinos; Dooars tea
  • Bankura — Bishnupur's terracotta temples and the long-necked clay horse
  • Birbhum — Santiniketan, Tagore's Visva-Bharati; Tarapith; Baul minstrels
  • Cooch Behar — Palace of the Koch kings, modelled on Buckingham Palace
  • Dakshin Dinajpur — Bangarh mound, site of ancient Kotivarsha; Balurghat on the Atreyee river
  • Darjeeling — Tea gardens, the Himalayan toy train and Kanchenjunga views
  • Hooghly — Chandannagar's French quarter and Bandel Church; Dutch Chinsurah
  • Howrah — Cantilever bridge over the Hooghly, a great railway terminus and Belur Math
  • Jalpaiguri — Gorumara National Park and the tea gardens of the Dooars
  • Jhargram — Sal forests of Jungle Mahal; a Malla-Deb palace; Chilkigarh's Kanak Durga
  • Kalimpong — Flower nurseries and orchids; Deolo hill above the Teesta
  • Kolkata — Victoria Memorial, Kalighat and Durga Puja; former capital of British India
  • Malda — Gaur and Pandua ruins of Bengal's sultans; Fazli and Himsagar mangoes
  • Murshidabad — Hazarduari Palace of the Nawabs; the 1757 battlefield of Plassey; silk
  • Nadia — Nabadwip, Chaitanya's birthplace; Mayapur's ISKCON temple; Krishnanagar clay dolls
  • North 24 Parganas — Barrackpore cantonment, Kolkata's airport and the Petrapole border crossing
  • Paschim Bardhaman — Durgapur Steel Plant and the Raniganj coalfield, India's oldest
  • Paschim Medinipur — IIT Kharagpur, India's first IIT, and its kilometre-long railway platform
  • Purba Bardhaman — 'Rice bowl of Bengal'; Curzon Gate and the 108 Shiva temples at Nababhat
  • Purba Medinipur — Digha beach, Haldia port and Tamluk, the ancient port of Tamralipta
  • Purulia — Chhau masked dance and the Ajodhya Hills, a Chota Nagpur outlier
  • South 24 Parganas — The Sundarbans mangrove delta and its tigers; Sagar Island's Gangasagar mela
  • Uttar Dinajpur — Kulik (Raiganj) bird sanctuary, an Asian openbill stork colony