Jharkhand on India War Map
India's coal, iron and mica belt on the Chota Nagpur plateau; Jamshedpur's steel
Jharkhand has 24 districts and 240 slots. Every slot costs ₹99 to claim; taking an occupied one costs double what its holder paid.
Districts of Jharkhand
- 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
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