Jharkhand

Jharkhand is a state in . Home to the Chota Nagpur Plateau, Jharkhand can fairly claim to be one of the most attractive parts of the country.
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is the capital city and also the largest district by population of the state of Jharkhand. was the centre of the Jharkhand movement, which called for a separate state for the tribal regions of South , northern , western and the eastern area of what is present-day .

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, also known as Tatanagar, is a major industrial city in eastern India. Located on the confluence of the Swarnarekha and rivers, the city is surrounded by the Dalma Hills.

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is a city in Jharkhand; it is considered the coal capital of India. The coalfields around are known as the Jharia coalfields. They cover an area of around 448 km2, the total reserve of coal is estimated at 5,000 million tonnes.

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North Chotanagpur division is one of the five divisions of the state of Jharkhand. The division comprises the following districts: , Chatra, , , , Koderma and Ramgarh. It was earlier part of the Chota Nagpur Division.

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South Chotanagpur division is one of the five divisions in the state of Jharkhand. The South Chotanagpur Division, also known as the Ranchi Division.

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Santhal Pargana division is an administrative division of the state of Jharkhand. The division comprises six districts and serves as a key administrative unit of the state.
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Jharkhand

  • Type: State with 33,000,000 residents
  • Description: state in eastern India
  • Also known as: “IN-JH”, “State of Jhārkhand”, “جھار کھنڈ”, “झार खंड”, “झार खण्ड”, “झारखंड प्रदेश”, “झारखंड प्रांत”, “झारखंड राज्य”, “ঝারখণ্ড”, “ஜார்கன்ட்”, “ᱡᱟᱦᱮᱨᱠᱷᱚᱸᱰ”, and “加尔克汉德邦”
  • Neighbors: , , , , and
  • Categories: state of India and locality
  • Location: , , ,
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Latitude of center
23.456° or 23° 27′ 22″ north
Longitude of center
85.2557° or 85° 15′ 21″ east
Population
33,000,000
Elevation
364 metres (1,194 feet)
Abbreviation
“JH”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2240991958
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1444365
Wiki­data ID
Q1184
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Jharkhand” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Jharkhand”
  • Albanian: “Xharkand”
  • Amharic: “ጃርኸንድ”
  • Amharic: “ጆርካንድ”
  • Angika: “झारखंड”
  • Angika: “झारखण्ड”
  • Arabic: “تجاركاند”
  • Arabic: “جاركند”
  • Arabic: “جهارخاند”
  • Aragonese: “Jharkhand”
  • Armenian: “Ջհարկհանդ”
  • Armenian: “Ջհարքհանդ”
  • Assamese: “ঝাৰখণ্ড”
  • Asturian: “Jharkhand”
  • Awadhi: “झारखण्ड”
  • Azerbaijani: “Charkhand”
  • Azerbaijani: “Jharkhand”
  • Balinese: “Jharkhand”
  • Basque: “Jharkhand”
  • Belarusian: “Джгаркганд”
  • Belarusian: “Джхаркханд”
  • Bengali: “ঝাড়খণ্ড”
  • Bhojpuri: “झारखंड”
  • Bishnupriya: “ঝাড়খন্ড”
  • Breton: “Jharkhand”
  • Bulgarian: “Джаркханд”
  • Burmese: “ဈာရခဏ္ဍပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Jharkhand”
  • Cebuano: “State of Jharkhand”
  • Central Kurdish: “جارکەند”
  • Chechen: “Джаркханд”
  • Chinese: “恰尔肯德邦”
  • Chinese: “賈坎德邦”
  • Chinese: “贾坎德邦”
  • Croatian: “Jharkhand”
  • Czech: “Džhárkhand”
  • Danish: “Jharkhand”
  • Dhivehi: “ޖަރްކަންދު”
  • Dotyali: “झारखण्ड”
  • Dutch: “Jharkhand”
  • Esperanto: “Ĝarkando”
  • Esperanto: “Ĝarkhando”
  • Estonian: “Jharkhand”
  • Estonian: “Jhārkhand”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Jharkhand”
  • Finnish: “Jharkhand”
  • French: “Jharkhand”
  • Georgian: “ჯარხანდი”
  • German: “Jharkhand”
  • Goan Konkani: “Jharkhandd”
  • Goan Konkani: “झारखंड”
  • Greek: “Τζαρκάντ”
  • Greek: “Τζαρχάντ”
  • Gujarati: “ઝારખંડ”
  • Hausa: “Jharkhand”
  • Hebrew: “ג’הרקאנד”
  • Hebrew: “גהרקאנד”
  • Hindi: “झारखण्ड”
  • Hungarian: “Dzshárkhand”
  • Icelandic: “Jharkhand”
  • Indonesian: “Jharkhand”
  • Interlingua: “Jharkhand”
  • Irish: “Jharkhand”
  • Italian: “Jharkhand”
  • Japanese: “ジャールカンド”
  • Japanese: “ジャールカンド州”
  • Javanese: “Jharkhand”
  • Kannada: “ಜಾರಖಂಡ”
  • Kannada: “ಝಾರ್ಖಂಡ್”
  • Kashmiri: “جھارکھنڈ”
  • Kashmiri: “جھارکھَنٛڈ”
  • Kazakh: “Жарканд”
  • Kirghiz: “Жарканд”
  • Komering: “Jharkhand”
  • Korean: “자르칸드 주”
  • Korean: “자르칸드”
  • Korean: “자르칸드주”
  • Ladin: “Jharkhand”
  • Latin: “Jharakhanda”
  • Latin: “Jhārakhaṇḍa”
  • Latvian: “Džhārkhanda”
  • Literary Chinese: “賈坎德邦”
  • Lithuanian: “Džarkandas”
  • Lithuanian: “Džharkhandas”
  • Macedonian: “Џарканд”
  • Magahi: “झारखण्ड”
  • Maithili: “झारखण्ड”
  • Malay: “Jharkhand”
  • Malayalam: “ഝാർഖണ്ഡ്‌”
  • Manipuri: “ꯓꯔꯈꯟ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯓꯥꯔꯈꯟ꯭ꯗ”
  • Marathi: “झारखंड”
  • Mazanderani: “جارکند”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Jharkhand”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Jharkhand”
  • Mingrelian: “ჯარხანდი”
  • Mongolian: “Жарканд”
  • Mongolian: “Жаркханд”
  • Nepali: “झारखण्ड”
  • Newari: “झारखण्ड”
  • Northern Frisian: “Jharkhand”
  • Northern Luri: “جارکأند”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jharkhand”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jharkhand”
  • Norwegian: “Jharkhand”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Jharkhand”
  • Oriya: “ଝାଡ଼ଖଣ୍ଡ”
  • Oromo: “Jharkhand”
  • Ossetian: “Джаркханд”
  • Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “جاركند”
  • Pampanga: “Jharkhand”
  • Panjabi: “ਝਾਰਖੰਡ”
  • Persian: “جارکند”
  • Polish: “Jharkhand”
  • Portuguese: “Jarcanda”
  • Portuguese: “Jharkhand”
  • Pushto: “جارکنډ”
  • Romanian: “Jharkhand”
  • Russian: “Джаркханд”
  • Sanskrit: “झारखण्डराज्यम्”
  • Santali: “ᱡᱷᱟᱨᱠᱷᱚᱸᱰ”
  • Scots: “Jharkhand”
  • Serbian: “Џарканд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Džarkand”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jharkhand”
  • Sindhi: “جهارکنڊ”
  • Sindhi: “جھرکنڊ”
  • Sinhala: “ජාර්ක්හාන්ඩ්”
  • Slovak: “Džhárkhand”
  • Slovenian: “Džarhand”
  • Somali: “Jharkhand”
  • South Azerbaijani: “جارکند”
  • Spanish: “Jharkhand”
  • Swahili: “Jharkhand”
  • Swedish: “Jharkhand”
  • Tagalog: “Jharkhand”
  • Tajik: “Ҷарханд”
  • Tamil: “சார்க்கண்டு”
  • Tamil: “சார்க்கண்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Жаркенд”
  • Tatar: “Җаркһанд”
  • Telugu: “జార్ఖండ్”
  • Thai: “รัฐฌารขัณฑ์”
  • Tibetan: “རྗར་ཁན་ཌི།”
  • Tulu: “ಝಾರ್ಖಂಡ್”
  • Turkish: “Carkhand”
  • Turkish: “Jharkhand”
  • Ukrainian: “Джгаркганд”
  • Ukrainian: “Джхаркханд”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Dźarkand”
  • Urdu: “جھارکھنڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Jharkhand”
  • Venetian: “Jharkhand”
  • Vietnamese: “Jharkhand”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Jharkhand”
  • Welsh: “Jharkhand”
  • Western Frisian: “Jharkhand”
  • Western Panjabi: “جھاڑکھنڈ”
  • Wu Chinese: “贾坎德邦”
  • Yiddish: “דזשארקהאנד”
  • Yoruba: “Jharkhand”
  • Yue Chinese: “乍拉肯德邦”
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  • “झारखंड”

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