Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of the kerala state is commonly known as the 'Evergreen city of India' as Mahatma Gandhi crowned it when he visited the city. It has a huge green landscape of trees. Bengaluru, 'the silicon valley of India' is known as the Garden city of India.
On the west coast and almost half way up is Mumbai, the gateway to both North and South India.
Delhi is a Union Territory situated in the northern part of India.
Delhi is located in Northern India, at28.61°N 77.23°E. The city is bordered on its northern, western, and southern sides by the state of Haryana and to the east by that of Uttar Pradesh (UP).
Some notable attractions include the iconic India Gate, Red Fort, Jama Masjid, Humayun's Tomb, Qutub Minar, Chandi Chowk, Lotus temple and Lodhi Gardens.
Top Places to visit in North India
- Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir.
- New Delhi, NCR - The city of cities.
- Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand.
- Rishikesh, Uttarakhand - Yoga Capital of the World.
- Manali, Himachal Pradesh - Lover's Paradise - India's Honeymoon capital.
- Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir - The Paradise on Earth.
Here are the top nine cities that you should visit in South India.
- Thiruvananthapuram.
- Chennai.
- Hyderabad.
- Coimbatore.
- Kochi.
- Madurai.
- Mysore. It goes without saying Mysore palace is the top travel attraction of south India.
- Pondicherry. Pondicherry is a small union territory in South India.
Delhi was a part of Punjab Empire before independence. At the time of independence, many Punjabis left their home(now Pakistan) and came to the other side of Punjab. Delhi was on the border of Punjab. But Delhi, culturally and historically, has always been with Punjab, in Punjab.
States like Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar are not formally part of North India but indirectly considered a part of the region.
So, Delhi Police is under Central Government. The 69th Amendment to the Constitution of India declared Union Territory of Delhi to be formally known as National Capital Territory of Delhi. So, we can state that Delhi is a semi-state under a Lieutenant Governor and a Chief Minister with a 70 member Legislative Assembly.
South India is located in the Peninsular Deccan Plateau and is bordered by the Arabian Sea in the West, the Indian Ocean to the south and the Bay of Bengal to the east. South India also includes two mountain ranges; The Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats.
The Houston Gujaratis (GIH) trace their ancestry to the Gujarati-speaking state of Gujarat (red star), while the Singapore Indians (INS) trace their ancestry predominantly to Tamil Nadu, a Dravidian-language speaking state in the south (grey star).
Recognized as these four areas, the North includes Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wisconsin.
Punjab, state of India, located in the northwestern part of the subcontinent. It is bounded by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir to the north, Himachal Pradesh to the northeast, Haryana to the south and southeast, and Rajasthan to the southwest and by the country of Pakistan to the west.
South India consists of the five southern Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well as the union territories of Puducherry, Lakshadweep and Andaman and Nicobar.
East India is a region of India consisting of the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha and also the union territory Andaman and Nicobar Islands. West Bengal's capital Kolkata is the largest city of this region.
Maharashtra is bounded by the Indian states of Gujarat to the northwest, Madhya Pradesh to the north, Chhattisgarh to the east, Telangana to the southeast, Karnataka to the south, and Goa to the southwest and by the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and the Arabian Sea to the west.
Northeast India (officially North Eastern Region, NER) is the easternmost region of India representing both a geographic and political administrative division of the country. It comprises eight states – Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura.
In India, it includes the Punjab state, Chandigarh, Haryana, and Himachal Pradesh. Using the 1947 definition, the Punjab borders the Balochistan and Pashtunistan regions to the west, Kashmir to the north, the Hindi Belt to the east, and Rajasthan and Sindh to the south.
India is home to an extraordinary variety of climatic regions, ranging from tropical in the south to temperate and alpine in the Himalayan north, where elevated regions receive sustained winter snowfall. The nation's climate is strongly influenced by the Himalayas and the Thar Desert.
| Western India |
|---|
| Country | India |
| States and territories | Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu Goa Gujarat Karnataka Maharashtra Rajasthan |
| Other states sometimes included | Haryana Kerala Madhya Pradesh Punjab (southern) Uttar Pradesh (western) |
| Largest city | Mumbai |
It has been assigned 222143 pincode by Indian postal services.
According to the 1991 Census of India, there were 3255 urban local bodies (ULBs) in the country; classified into the four major categories: Municipal corporation (Nagar Nigam)
An overwhelming majority of the world's cities have fewer than 5 million inhabitants. In 2018, there were 467 cities with between 1 and 5 million inhabitants and an additional 598 cities with between 500,000 and 1 million inhabit- ants.
| North India |
|---|
| Country | India |
| States and territories | Chandigarh Delhi Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir Ladakh Punjab Rajasthan Uttarakhand Uttar Pradesh |
| Other states sometimes included | Bihar Gujarat Madhya Pradesh West Bengal |
| Largest city | Delhi |
List of towns in National Capital Territory of Delhi
| Town | Population (2001) |
|---|
| Delhi | 9,817,439 |
| Najafgarh | 9,011,500 |
| Narela | 501,511 |
| New Delhi | 294,783 |
In India, a census town is one which is not statutorily notified and administered as a town, but nevertheless whose population has attained urban characteristics. They are characterized by the following: Population exceeds 5,000. At least 75% of main male working population is employed outside the agricultural sector.
List
| Rank | City | State/UT |
|---|
| 1 | Delhi | Delhi |
| 2 | Jaipur | Rajasthan |
| 3 | Lucknow | Uttar Pradesh |
| 4 | Kanpur | Uttar Pradesh |
But the accepted number is seven (excluding New Delhi) and these are cities whose remains are extant. Historians speak of the "Seven Cities of Delhi" but, between 1100 A.D. and 1947 A.D., there have actually been eight of them: The oldest city near the site of the Qutab Minar. Siri.
As of 2011, 64 cities in the state had a population of over 100,000 people. Kanpur is the largest city of Uttar Pradesh with 1,640 square kilometres (630 sq mi) area having an approximate population of over 3 million which comes under Kanpur metropolitan area.
