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Maharashtra

Maharashtra in is the third-largest state of by size and the second-largest by population. It stretches from the west coast to the interior regions with a variable climate.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Mumbai and Pune.

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, earlier known as Bombay, is the largest city in and the capital of the state Maharashtra. A cosmopolitan metropolis, was built on seven islands on the coastline which over time were joined to form the island city of Bombay.

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, formerly Poona, is the second largest city in the state of Maharashtra with an estimated population of 7.4 million as of 2020. It is also considered the state's cultural capital.

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is a city in the state of Maharashtra famous for its oranges. It is also the "second capital" of Maharashtra, which means that some administrative functions are carried out here, and one of three sessions of the Legislative Assembly in a year occur here.

Destinations to Discover

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The coast of Maharashtra consists of Palghar and Thane districts, immediately north of . Lying between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea, it is blessed with beaches, mountains and bustling suburbs.

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Vidharbha, also known as Berar, is the easternmost region of Maharashtra in . As such, while Maharashtra is considered to a "Western Indian" state, geographically is very much in the centre of the country.

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is a region of Maharashtra, . It consists of Ahmednagar, Dhule, Jalgaon, Nandurbar and Nashik districts.

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is a region of Maharashtra, .

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is a region of Maharashtra, . It is usually a drought-affected area. But nowadays the situation is changing. It has a very ancient history.

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is a district of Maharashtra, . It is considered the heartland of Marathi culture for many reasons, not the least of which is that , the state's cultural capital is there.

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district, previously Colaba district, is a district in the Konkan division of Maharashtra, India. The headquarters of the district is . Other major cities in the district are , , , , and .

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Ratnagiri district is a district in the state of Maharashtra, . The administrative headquarter of the district is located in the town of .
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Maharashtra

Latitude of center
19.567° or 19° 34′ 1″ north
Longitude of center
76.4165° or 76° 24′ 59″ east
Population
112,000,000
Elevation
454 metres (1,490 feet)
Abbreviation
“MH”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 13395044029
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1264418
Wiki­data ID
Q1191
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Maharashtra” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Maharashtra”
  • Afrikaans: “Maharashtra”
  • Albanian: “Maharashtra”
  • Amharic: “ማሃራሽትራ”
  • Angika: “महाराष्ट्र”
  • Arabic: “ماهاراشترا”
  • Arabic: “مهاراشترة”
  • Arabic: “مَهَارَاشِتْرَة”
  • Aragonese: “Maharashtra”
  • Armenian: “Մահարաշտրա”
  • Assamese: “মহাৰাষ্ট্ৰ”
  • Asturian: “Maharastra”
  • Awadhi: “महाराष्ट्र”
  • Azerbaijani: “Maharaştra”
  • Azerbaijani: “Maxaraştra”
  • Balinese: “Maharashtra”
  • Banjar: “Maharashtra”
  • Basque: “Maharashtra”
  • Belarusian: “Магараштра”
  • Belarusian: “Махараштра”
  • Bengali: “মহারাষ্ট্র”
  • Bhojpuri: “महाराष्ट्र”
  • Bishnupriya: “মহারাষ্ট্র”
  • Breton: “Maharashtra”
  • Bulgarian: “Махаращра”
  • Burmese: “မဟာရဋ္ဌပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Maharashtra”
  • Cebuano: “State of Mahārāshtra”
  • Central Kurdish: “مەھاراشترا”
  • Chechen: “Махараштра”
  • Chinese: “Maharashtra”
  • Chinese: “馬哈拉什特拉邦”
  • Chinese: “馬哈拉施特拉”
  • Chinese: “馬哈拉施特拉邦”
  • Chinese: “马哈拉施特拉邦”
  • Croatian: “Maharashtra”
  • Czech: “Maháráštra”
  • Danish: “Maharashtra”
  • Dhivehi: “މަހާރާޝްތުރާ”
  • Dotyali: “महाराष्ट्र”
  • Dutch: “Maharashtra”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماهاراشترا”
  • Esperanto: “Maharaŝtro”
  • Estonian: “Maharashtra”
  • Estonian: “Mahārāshtra”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Maharashtra”
  • Finnish: “Maharashtra”
  • French: “Maharashtra”
  • Galician: “Maharashtra”
  • Georgian: “მაჰარაშტრა”
  • German: “Maharashtra”
  • Goan Konkani: “Maharaxhttr”
  • Goan Konkani: “महाराष्ट्र”
  • Greek: “Μαχαράστρα”
  • Gujarati: “મહારાષ્ટ્ર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Mâ-hâ-là-sṳ̂-thi̍t-là-pâng”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Maharashtra”
  • Hausa: “Maharashtra”
  • Hebrew: “מהאראשטרה”
  • Hebrew: “מהראשטרה”
  • Hindi: “महाराष्ट्र”
  • Hungarian: “Mahárástra”
  • Icelandic: “Maharashtra”
  • Ido: “Maharashtra”
  • Indonesian: “Maharashtra”
  • Interlingue: “Maharashtra”
  • Irish: “Maharashtra”
  • Italian: “Maharashtra”
  • Japanese: “マハーラーシュトラ州”
  • Kannada: “ಮಹಾರಾಷ್ಟ್ರ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Maharashtra”
  • Kashmiri: “مہاراشٹر”
  • Kashmiri: “مہاراشٹٛر”
  • Kashmiri: “مَہاراشٹٛر”
  • Kashmiri: “مہاراشٹرا”
  • Kazakh: “Махараштра”
  • Kirghiz: “Махараштра”
  • Komering: “Maharashtra”
  • Korean: “마하라슈트라 주”
  • Korean: “마하라슈트라”
  • Korean: “마하라슈트라주”
  • Kurdish: “Maharaştra”
  • Ladin: “Maharashtra”
  • Latin: “Maharashtra”
  • Latin: “Maharastra”
  • Latvian: “Mahārāštra”
  • Lithuanian: “Maharaštra”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Maharaštra”
  • Luxembourgish: “Maharashtra”
  • Macedonian: “Махараштра”
  • Maithili: “महाराष्ट्र”
  • Malagasy: “Maharashtra”
  • Malay: “Maharashtra”
  • Malayalam: “മഹാരാഷ്ട്ര”
  • Manipuri: “ꯃꯍꯥꯔꯥꯁꯇ꯭ꯔꯥ”
  • Marathi: “महाराष्ट्र”
  • Mazanderani: “مهاراشترا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Maharashtra”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Maharashtra”
  • Mingrelian: “მაჰარაშტრა”
  • Mongolian: “Махараштра”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ماهاراشترا”
  • Nepali: “महाराष्ट्र”
  • Newari: “महाराष्ट्र”
  • Northern Frisian: “Maharashtra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Maharashtra”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Maharashtra”
  • Norwegian: “Maharashtra”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Maharashtra”
  • Oriya: “ମହାରାଷ୍ଟ୍ର”
  • Ossetian: “Махараштрæ”
  • Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “مهاراشتره”
  • Pampanga: “Maharashtra”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਹਾਰਾਸ਼ਟਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਹਾਂਰਾਸ਼ਟਰ”
  • Persian: “مهاراشترا”
  • Polish: “Maharasztra”
  • Portuguese: “Maarastra”
  • Pushto: “مهاراشترا”
  • Pushto: “مهاراشټرا”
  • Romanian: “Maharashtra”
  • Russian: “Махараштра”
  • Sanskrit: “महाराष्ट्रराज्यम्”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱚᱦᱟᱨᱟᱥᱴᱨᱚ”
  • Scots: “Maharashtra”
  • Serbian: “Махараштра”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Maharashtra”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Maharaštra”
  • Sindhi: “مهاراشٽر”
  • Sindhi: “مهر راشٽر”
  • Sindhi: “مهرَن جي رياست”
  • Sindhi: “مھاراشٽر”
  • Sinhala: “මහාරාෂ්ට්‍ර”
  • Sinhala: “මහාරාෂ්ට්‍රා”
  • Slovak: “Maháraštra”
  • Slovenian: “Maharaštra”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مهاراشترا”
  • Spanish: “Maharashtra”
  • Spanish: “Maharastra”
  • Swahili: “Maharashtra”
  • Swedish: “Maharashtra”
  • Tagalog: “Maharashtra”
  • Tajik: “Маҳараштра”
  • Tajik: “Маҳороштра”
  • Tamil: “மகாராட்டிரம்”
  • Tamil: “மஹாராஷ்டிரா”
  • Tatar: “Махараштра”
  • Tatar: “Маһараштра”
  • Telugu: “మహారాష్ట్ర”
  • Thai: “รัฐมหาราษฏระ”
  • Tulu: “ಮಹಾರಾಷ್ಟ್ರ”
  • Turkish: “Maharaştra”
  • Ukrainian: “Махараштра”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Maharaštra”
  • Urdu: “مہاراشٹر”
  • Urdu: “مہاراشٹرا”
  • Uzbek: “Maharashtra”
  • Venetian: “Maharashtra”
  • Vietnamese: “Maharashtra”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Maharashtra”
  • Welsh: “Maharashtra”
  • Western Panjabi: “مہاراشٹر”
  • Wu Chinese: “马哈拉施特拉邦”
  • Yiddish: “מאהאראשטרא”
  • Yoruba: “Maharashtra”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬哈拉施特拉邦”
  • “ma kipisi Majalasa”
  • “ma lili Majalasa”
  • “Maharashtra”
  • “Mahārāṣṭra”
  • “महाराष्ट्र”

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