Chhattisgarh
State in central India / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Chhattisgarh (/tʃætɪsɡɑːr/, Hindi: [ˈtʃʰət̪ːiːsgəɽʱ]) is a landlocked state in Central India. It is the ninth largest state by area, and with a population of roughly 30 million, the seventeenth most populous.[15] It borders seven states – Uttar Pradesh to the north, Madhya Pradesh to the northwest, Maharashtra to the southwest, Jharkhand to the northeast, Odisha to the east, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana to the south.[16] Formerly a part of Madhya Pradesh, it was granted statehood on 1 November 2000 with Raipur as the designated state capital.[17]
Chhattisgarh is one of the fastest-developing states in India.[18] Its Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) is ₹5.09 lakh crore (US$61 billion) (2023–24 est.),[8] with a per capita GSDP of ₹152,348 (US$1,800)[8] (2023–24 est.). A resource-rich state, it has the third largest coal reserves in the country and provides electricity, coal, and steel to the rest of the nation.[19][20] It also has the third largest forest cover in the country after Madhya Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh with over 40% of the state covered by forests.