Chhattisgarh
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| Chhattisgarh | |
| Image:IndiaChhattisgarh.png Location of Chhattisgarh | |
| Capital | Raipur 21.27° N 81.60° E |
| Largest city | Raipur |
| Abbreviation | IN-CT |
| Official languages | Hindi, Chhattisgarhi |
| Legislature • Strength • Governor • Chief Minister | Unicameral 90 SK. M. Seth (list) Raman Singh (list) |
| Formation | 2000-11-01 |
| Area | 135,194 km² (?) |
| Population (2001) | 20,795,956 (17th) |
| Density | 108/km² |
| Districts | 16 |
| Time zone | IST (UTC +5:30) |
| Seal of Chhattisgarh | |
Chhattisgarh (छत्तीसगढ़), a state in central India, formed when the sixteen southeastern districts of Madhya Pradesh gained statehood on November 1, 2000. Raipur serves as its capital.
It has borders on the northwest with Madhya Pradesh, on the west with Maharashtra, on the south with Andhra Pradesh, on the east with Orissa, on the northeast with Jharkhand and on the north with Uttar Pradesh.
The northern part of the state lies on the edge of the great Indo-Gangetic plain: the Rihand River, a tributary of the Ganges, drains this area. The eastern end of the Satpura Range and the western edge of the Chota Nagpur Plateau form an east-west belt of hills that divide the Mahanadi River basin from the Indo-Gangetic plain. The central part of the state lies in the fertile plain of the Mahanadi and its tributaries, with extensive rice cultivation. The southern part of the state lies on the Deccan plateau, in the watershed of the Godavari River and its tributary the Indravati. Forest covers roughly forty percent of the state.
The Chhattisgarhi language, part of the East-Central group of Indo-Aryan languages, predominates language in the region. The hill districts of the state serve as a home to the Gond peoples, who speak Dravidian languages.
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Districts
Bastar, Bilaspur, Dantewada (South Bastar), Dhamtari, Durg, Janjgir-Champa, Jashpur, Kanker (North Bastar), Kawardha, Korba, Koriya (Korea), Mahasamund, Raigarh, Raipur, Rajnandgaon, and Surguja.
Image:Chhattisgarh districts.jpg
Politics
Recent developments
September 3, 2005, twenty policemen were killed by a mine in the district op Bijapur. The mine had been laid thereby maoïst rebels, who had recently joined forces with the rebels in Nepal. (source: 20 indische Polizisten durch Mine getötet, September 4, 2005, Neue Zürcher Zeitung).
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| Andhra Pradesh | Arunachal Pradesh | Assam | Bihar | Chhattisgarh | Goa | Gujarat | Haryana | Himachal Pradesh | Jammu and Kashmir | Jharkhand | Karnataka | Kerala | Madhya Pradesh | Maharashtra | Manipur | Meghalaya | Mizoram | Nagaland | Orissa | Punjab | Rajasthan | Sikkim | Tamil Nadu | Tripura | Uttaranchal | Uttar Pradesh | West Bengal | |
| Union territories: Andaman and Nicobar Islands | Chandigarh | Dadra and Nagar Haveli | Daman and Diu | Lakshadweep | Pondicherry | |
| National Capital Territory: Delhi | |
