Question

Which are the Union Territories of India? What are the Capitals of these Union territories?

Answer 1

Answer:

The 8 different Union Territories of India and their capitals are given in the below table:

Union Territories of India	Capital
Puducherry	Puducherry
Lakshadweep	Kavaratti
Ladakh	Kargil (winter capital), Leh (Summer capital)
Jammu and Kashmir	Srinagar (Summer capital), Jammu (Winter capital)
Delhi	New Delhi
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	Daman
Chandigarh	Chandigarh
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	Port Blair

• Both houses of Indian Parliament passed the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019. This resulted in bifurcation into two Union Territories – Ladakh & Jammu and Kashmir from 31st October 2019.
• Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu were constituted through the merger of the former territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
• Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a union territory of India consisting of 572 islands, of which 38 are inhabited, at the junction of the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea.
• The largest town in Ladakh is Leh, followed by Kargil, each of which headquarters a district.
• Lakshadweep also known as Laccadives. It consists of 36 islands in the Arabian sea.
• Chandigarh is a city, district and union territory in India that serves as the joint capital of the two neighbouring states of Punjab and Haryana.