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State Vehicle code Zone Capital Largest city Statehood Area (km2) Official languages
Andhra Pradesh AP Southern Hyderabad (de jure) Amaravati (de facto)  Visakhapatnam 01-Nov-56 1,60,205 Telugu
Arunachal Pradesh AR North-Eastern Itanagar 20-Feb-87 83,743 English
Assam AS North-Eastern Dispur Guwahati 26-Jan-50 78,550 Assamese
Bihar BR Eastern Patna 26-Jan-50 94,163 Hindi
Chhattisgarh CG Central Naya Raipur Raipur 01-Nov-00 1,35,194 Hindi
Goa GA Western Panaji Vasco da Gama 30-May-87 3,702 Konkani
Gujarat GJ Western Gandhinagar Ahmedabad 01-May-60 1,96,024 Gujarati
Haryana HR Northern Chandigarh Faridabad 01-Nov-66 44,212 Hindi
Himachal Pradesh HP Northern Shimla (Summer) Dharamshala (Winter) Shimla 25-Jan-71 55,673 Hindi
Jharkhand JH Eastern Ranchi Jamshedpur 15-Nov-00 74,677 Hindi
Karnataka KA Southern Bangalore 01-Nov-56 1,91,791 Kannada
Kerala KL Southern Thiruvananthapuram Kochi 01-Nov-56 38,863 Malayalam
Madhya Pradesh MP Central Bhopal Indore 01-Nov-56 3,08,252 Hindi
Maharashtra MH Western Mumbai (Summer) Nagpur (Winter) Mumbai 01-May-60 3,07,713 Marathi
Manipur MN North-Eastern Imphal 21-Jan-72 22,347 Meitei
Meghalaya ML North-Eastern Shillong 21-Jan-72 22,720 English
Mizoram MZ North-Eastern Aizawl 20-Feb-87 21,081 English, Hindi, Mizo
Nagaland NL North-Eastern Kohima Dimapur 01-Dec-63 16,579 English
Odisha OD Eastern Bhubaneswar 26-Jan-50 1,55,820 Odia
Punjab PB Northern Chandigarh Ludhiana 01-Nov-66 50,362 Punjabi
Rajasthan RJ Northern Jaipur 01-Nov-56 3,42,269 Hindi
Sikkim SK North-Eastern Gangtok 16-May-75 7,096 English, Nepali
Tamil Nadu TN Southern Chennai 01-Nov-56 1,30,058 Tamil
Telangana TS Southern HyderabadNote 1 02-Jun-14 114,840[50] Telugu, Urdu
Tripura TR North-Eastern Agartala 21-Jan-72 10,492 Bengali, English, Kokborok
Uttar Pradesh UP Northern Lucknow Kanpur 26-Jan-50 2,43,286 Hindi
Uttarakhand UK Northern Gairsain (Summer) Dehradun 09-Nov-00 53,483 Hindi
Dehradun (Winter)[52]
West Bengal WB Eastern Kolkata 26-Jan-50 88,752 Bengali, Nepali

Union territories

Union territory Vehicle code Capital Largest city Area (km2) Official languages Additional official languages
Andaman and Nicobar Islands AN Port Blair 8,249 English, Hindi Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam
Chandigarh CH Chandigarh 114 English, Hindi, Punjabi
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu DD Daman 603 English, Gujarati, Hindi Konkani, Marathi
Delhi DL New Delhi 1,490 English, Hindi Punjabi, Urdu
Jammu and Kashmir JK Srinagar (Summer) Srinagar 55,538Note 3 English, Urdu Dogri, Kashmiri
Jammu (Winter)
Ladakh LA Leh (Summer) Kargil (Winter) Leh 174,852Note 4 English, Ladakhi
Lakshadweep LD Kavaratti 32 English, Malayalam
Puducherry PY Pondicherry 492 English,[60] Tamil Telugu, Malayalam