New · District Atlas
India is not one story.
It is 640 of them.
Tap a state, then a district. Every district opens like a mind map: history, rivers, people, jobs, schemes and the places examiners love to ask about, with real photos and official numbers.
- 121.09 crorepeople counted in 2011
- 640district pages
- 72.98%India's literacy
- 943women per 1000 men
India at a glance
Change the colour layer and watch the country change. Which states lead? Which lag? That pattern is a Mains answer.
Colour by:
Literacy rate (%)
< 67.467.4–74.474.4–78.078.0–85.8≥ 85.8
India: 72.98% · Census 2011Fully explored districts
Mind map, photos, memory cards and quiz.
Bhagalpur
Bhagalpur: the Silk City where Anga's kings once ruled
Silk CityAncient AngaVikramshila
Gaya
Gaya: where a prince became the Buddha
EnlightenmentBodh GayaUNESCO 2002
Nalanda
Nalanda: the world's great university, and Magadha's first capital
MahaviharaUNESCO 2016Rajagriha
Patna
Patna: the city that was capital of India's first empire
PataliputraMaurya capitalTakht Patna Sahib
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Pick your exam's state
BPSC → Bihar, JPSC → Jharkhand, and so on. Every state works.
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Play the map
Colour it by literacy or sex ratio, take the map quiz, compare two districts.
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Grow the mind map
Open a district, tick facts as they stick, flip the memory cards, beat the quiz.
Every state and UT
Andaman and Nicobar Islands3 districtsAndhra Pradesh13 districtsArunachal Pradesh16 districtsAssam27 districtsBihar38 districts · BPSCChandigarh1 districtsChhattisgarh18 districts · CGPSCDadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu3 districtsDelhi9 districtsGoa2 districtsGujarat26 districtsHaryana21 districts · HPSCHimachal Pradesh12 districtsJammu and Kashmir20 districtsJharkhand24 districts · JPSCKarnataka30 districtsKerala14 districtsLadakh2 districtsLakshadweep1 districtsMadhya Pradesh50 districts · MPPSCMaharashtra35 districtsManipur9 districtsMeghalaya7 districtsMizoram8 districtsNagaland11 districtsOdisha30 districtsPuducherry4 districtsPunjab20 districtsRajasthan33 districts · RPSCSikkim4 districtsTamil Nadu32 districtsTelangana10 districtsTripura4 districtsUttar Pradesh71 districts · UPPSCUttarakhand13 districts · UKPSCWest Bengal19 districts
- Census of India 2011: A-01 (area, households), Primary Census Abstract and Houselisting tables, Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner
- District boundaries: DataMeet India, Census 2011 districts (CC BY 2.5 IN); India outline: @svg-maps/india (CC BY 4.0). Ladakh is drawn inside Jammu and Kashmir on the India map.
- Districts created after 2011 appear inside their 2011 parent district.