The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Uttarakhand:

Uttarakhand Uttarakhand ( , or ; , ), also known as Uttaranchal ( ; the official name until 2007), is a state in the northern part of India. It is often referred to as the "Devbhumi" (literally 'Land of the Gods') due to its religious significance and ...

– state in the northern part of

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. It is often referred to as the Devabhumi (literally: "Land of the Gods") due to many

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s and pilgrimage centres found throughout the state. Uttarakhand is known for its natural environment of the

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, the Bhabar and

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General reference

Names

* Common English name(s):

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: * Official English name(s):

* Nickname(s): Devabhumi ("Land of the Gods") * Adjectival(s): Uttarakhandi * Demonym(s): Uttarakhandi

Rankings (amongst States and Union Territories of India)

* by area: 19th * by elevation: 2nd * by population (2011): 21st * by population density (2011): 27th * by gross domestic product (GDP nominal) (2017–18): 19th * by gross domestic product (GDP nominal) per capita: 9th * by Human Development Index (HDI) (2017): 19th * by life expectancy at birth (2010–2014): 3rd * by sex ratio: 14th * by literacy rate (2011): 17th

Geography of Uttarakhand

Geography of Uttarakhand Uttarakhand has a total geographic area of 53,483 km2, of which 86% is mountainous and 65% is covered by forest. Most of the northern parts of the state are part of Greater Himalaya ranges, covered by the high Himalayan peaks ...

** Uttarakhand is: a State of India ** Population of Uttarakhand: 10,116,752 ** Area of Uttarakhand: 53,483 km² ** Atlas of Uttarakhand

Environment of Uttarakhand

* Environment and Forests Department

Ecoregions of Uttarakhand

Western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows The Western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows is a montane grasslands and shrublands ecoregion of Nepal, India, and Tibet, which lies between the tree line and snow line in the western portion of the Himalaya Range. Setting The Western Himalayan ...

Western Himalayan subalpine conifer forests The Western Himalayan subalpine conifer forests is a temperate coniferous forests ecoregion of the middle and upper elevations of the western Middle Himalayas of Nepal, India, and Pakistan. Setting The ecoregion forms a belt of coniferous fores ...

Himalayan subtropical pine forests The Himalayan subtropical pine forests are a large subtropical coniferous forest ecoregion covering portions of Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. Geography This huge pine forest stretches for 3000 km across the lower elevations of the gre ...

Western Himalayan broadleaf forests The Western Himalayan broadleaf forests is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forest ecoregion which is found in the middle elevations of the western Himalayas, including parts of Nepal, India, and Pakistan. Setting The ecoregion forms an area of te ...

Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests The Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests is an ecoregion that extends from the middle hills of central Nepal through Darjeeling into Bhutan and also into the Indian States of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. It represents the east-west-directed band of ...

* Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands *

Upper Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests The Upper Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests is a tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests ecoregion of northern India. Geography It lies on the alluvial plain of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, with an area of , covering most of t ...

Natural geographic features of Uttarakhand

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Garhwal Himalaya The Garhwal Himalayas are mountain ranges located in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Geology This range is also a part of Himalaya Sivalik Hills, the outer most hills of the Himalaya located in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Major peaks ...

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Sivalik Hills The Sivalik Hills, also known as the Shivalik Hills and Churia Hills, are a mountain range of the outer Himalayas that stretches over about from the Indus River eastwards close to the Brahmaputra River, spanning the northern parts of the India ...

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Doab ''Doab'' () is a term used in South Asia Quote: "Originally and chiefly in South Asia: (the name of) a strip or narrow tract of land between two rivers; spec. (with) the area between the rivers Ganges and Jumna in northern India." for the tract ...

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Ganges Basin The Ganges Basin is a part of the Ganges-Brahmaputra- Meghna (GBM) basin draining 1,999,000 square kilometres in Tibet, Nepal, India and Bangladesh. To the north, the Himalaya or lower parallel ranges beyond form the Ganges-Brahmaputra divide. ...

* Mountains peaks of Uttarakhand *

Lakes of Kumaon hills The Lakes of Kumaon hills are a group of lakes located in the Nainital district, Kumaon. Nainital district is also called the ‘Lake District’ of India. These are under restoration with funds provided by the National Lake Conservation Plan (N ...

Location of Uttarakhand

* Uttarakhand is situated within the following regions: ** Northern Hemisphere ** Eastern Hemisphere ***

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North India North India is a loosely defined region consisting of the northern part of India. The dominant geographical features of North India are the Indo-Gangetic Plain and the Himalayas, which demarcate the region from the Tibetan Plateau and Central ...

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Indian Standard Time Indian Standard Time (IST), sometimes also called India Standard Time, is the time zone observed throughout India, with a time offset of UTC+05:30. India does not observe daylight saving time or other seasonal adjustments. In military and avi ...

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Regions of Uttarakhand

Administrative divisions of Uttarakhand

Administrative divisions of Uttarakhand The northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, comprises 2 administrative divisions. Within these 2 divisions, there are a total of 13 districts. The following table shows the name of each division, its administrative headquarters, its constituent d ...

** Districts of Uttarakhand ***

Tehsils of Uttarakhand The article lists all the 113 tehsils in the 13 districts of Uttarakhand. District-wise details See also * Administrative divisions of Uttarakhand * List of districts of Uttarakhand * List of parganas of Uttarakhand * List of community ...

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Kumaon division Kumaon (; Kumaoni: ''Kumāū''; ; historically romanized as KemāonJames Prinsep (Editor)John McClelland ) is a revenue and administrative division in the Indian State of Uttarakhand. It spans over the eastern half of the state and is bounde ...

Almora district Almora is a district in the Kumaon Division of Uttarakhand state, India. The headquarters is at Almora. It is 1,638 meters above sea level. The neighbouring regions are Pithoragarh district to the east, Chamoli district to the west, Bageshwar d ...

Bageshwar district Bageshwar is a district of Uttarakhand state in northern India. The town of Bageshwar is the district headquarters. Prior to its establishment as a district in 1997 it was part of Almora district. Bageshwar district is in Kumaon, and is bounded ...

Champawat district Champawat district is a district of Uttarakhand state in northern India. The town of Champawat is the administrative headquarters. The district of Champawat constituted in the year 1997. The district is divided into five tehsils: Barakot, Lohag ...

Nainital district Nainital district is a district in Kumaon division which is a part of Uttarakhand state in India. The headquarters is at Nainital. Nainital District is located in Kumaon Division, and is located in the lower Himalayas. Haldwani is the largest c ...

Pithoragarh district Pithoragarh district is the easternmost district in the state of Uttarakhand. It is located in the Himalayas and has an area of and a population of 483,439 (as of 2011). The city of Pithoragarh, located in Saur Valley, is its headquarters. T ...

Udham Singh Nagar district Udham Singh Nagar District (officially District of Udham Singh Nagar )is a district of Uttarakhand state in northern India. Rudrapur is the district headquarters. This district consists of nine Tehsils named Bajpur, Gadarpur, Rudrapur, Jasp ...

Garhwal division Garhwal (IPA: /ɡəɽʋːɔɭ/) is one of the two administrative divisions of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Lying in the Himalayas, it is bounded on the north by Tibet, on the east by Kumaon, on the south by Uttar Pradesh state, and on the ...

Chamoli district Chamoli district is a district of the Uttarakhand state of India. It is bounded by the Tibet region to the north, and by the Uttarakhand districts of Pithoragarh and Bageshwar to the east, Almora to the south, Pauri Garhwal to the southwest, ...

** Dehradun district **

Haridwar district Haridwar district () also spelled as ''Hardwar'' is a district in Garhwal which is a part of Uttarakhand, India. It is headquartered at Haridwar which is also its largest city. The district is ringed by the districts Dehradun in the north and e ...

Pauri Garhwal district Pauri Garhwal is a district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Its headquarters is in the town of Pauri. It is sometimes referred to simply as Garhwal district, though it should not be confused with the larger Garhwal region of which it is ...

Rudraprayag district Rudraprayag is a district of the state of Uttarakhand of northern India. The district occupies an area of 1984 km2. The town of Rudraprayag is the administrative headquarters of the district. The district is bounded by Uttarkashi District ...

Tehri Garhwal district Tehri Garhwal is a district in the hill state of Uttarakhand, India. Its administrative headquarters is at New Tehri. The district has a population of 618, 931 (2011 census), a 2.35% increase over the previous decade. It is the 7th ranked distr ...

Uttarkashi district Uttarkashi District is a district of Garhwal division of the Uttarakhand state in northern India, and has its headquarters at Uttarkashi city. It has six Tehsils namely Barkot, Dunda, Bhatwadi, Chinyalisaur, Purola and Mori. The district conta ...

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Haridwar Haridwar (; ) is a city and municipal corporation in the Haridwar district of Uttarakhand, India. With a population of 228,832 in 2011, it is the second-largest city in the state and the largest in the district. The city is situated on the ri ...

Haldwani Haldwani ( Kumaoni: ''Haldvānī'') is the largest city of Kumaon. It is also the third most populous city and largest commercial market in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Haldwani is said to be the financial capital of Uttarakhand, having the ...

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Kotdwar Kotdwar is a city, municipal corporation in Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand, India. It's just 101 km from Pauri town , the district headquarter. It is the eighth-largest city in Uttarakhand. Its old name was "Khohdwar", which means the g ...

Demographics of Uttarakhand

List of cities in Uttarakhand by population This is a list of urban agglomerations and cities of Uttarakhand with a population above 100,000 as per 2011 Census of India: Urban Agglomeration In the census of India 2011, an Urban Agglomeration has been defined as follows: "An urban agg ...

People of Uttarakhand

* People from Uttarakhand *

Indo-Aryan people Indo-Aryan peoples are a diverse collection of Indo-European peoples speaking Indo-Aryan languages in the Indian subcontinent. Historically, Aryan were the Indo-European pastoralists who migrated from Central Asia into South Asia and intr ...

** Pahari people ***

Garhwali people The Garhwali people are an Indian ethnolinguistic group native to the Garhwal, in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, who speak Garhwali, an Indo-Aryan language. Etymology In modern usage, "Garhwali" is used to refer to anyone whose linguist ...

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Kumaoni people Kumaonis, also known as Kumaiye and Kumain (in Nepal), are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group who speak Kumaoni language as their first-language and live mostly in Kumaon region in the Indian Himalayas . Kumaoni is also used as an ad ...

*** Jaunsari people ***

Khas people Khas people (; ne, खस) popularly known as Khas Arya are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group native to the Himalayan region of South Asia, what is now present-day Nepal, Indian states of Uttarakhand, West Bengal and Sikkim. Historica ...

Buksa people Bhoksa, also known as Buksa/Bukhasiya, are indigenous peoples living mainly in the Indian states of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. They are mostly concentrated in Dehradun and Nainital districts in the foothills of the outer Himalayas. They are ...

Tharu people The Tharu people are an ethnic group indigenous to the Terai in southern Nepal and northern India. They speak Tharu languages. They are recognized as an official nationality by the Government of Nepal. In the Indian Terai, they live foremost ...

* Tibeto-Burman people ** Bhotiya people ** Raji people **

Jad people The Jad people are a community found in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. They are also known as Lamba and Khampa. Social status , the Jad people were classified as a Scheduled Tribe The Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) ...

** Banrawat people

Languages of Uttarakhand

Indo-Aryan languages The Indo-Aryan languages (or sometimes Indic languages) are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. As of the early 21st century, they have more than 800 million speakers, primarily ...

Northern Indo-Aryan languages The Northern Indo-Aryan languages, also known as Pahāṛi languages, are a proposed group of Indo-Aryan languages spoken in the lower ranges of the Himalayas, from Nepal in the east, through the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhan ...

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Garhwali language Garhwali (, , in native pronunciation) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Central Pahari subgroup. It is primarily spoken by over 2.5 million Garhwali people in the Garhwal region of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand in the Indian Himala ...

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Kumaoni language Kumaoni (; ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by over two million people of the Kumaon region of the state of Uttarakhand in northern India and parts of Doti region in Western Nepal. As per 1961 survey there were 1,030,254 Kumaoni speakers in ...

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Jaunsari language Jaunsari () is a Western Pahari language of northern India spoken by the Jaunsari people in the Chakrata and Kalsi blocks of Dehradun district in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand state. The dialects of Jaunsari share about 60% of their basic ...

Eastern Indo-Aryan languages The Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, also known as Māgadhan languages, are spoken throughout the eastern Indian subcontinent (East India and Assam, Bangladesh), including Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bengal, Tripura, Assam, and Odisha; alongs ...

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Tharu languages The Tharu ( Tharu: थारु, hi, थरुवा) or Tharuhat ( ne, थरुहट) languages are any of the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by the Tharu people of the Terai region in Nepal, and neighboring regions of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh ...

* Tibeto-Burman languages ** West Himalayish languages *** Rongpo language *** Byangsi language *** Chaudangsi language *** Darmiya language ** Greater Magaric languages *** Raji language *** Rawat language ** Bodish languages *** Jad language

Government and politics of Uttarakhand

* Form of government: State governments of India, state government (parliamentary system of representative democracy) * Capital city, Capitals of Uttarakhand: ** Gairsain (Summer) ** Dehradun (Winter) * Elections in Uttarakhand ** Uttarakhand State Election Commission ** Local body elections in Uttarakhand

Branches of the government of Uttarakhand

* Government of Uttarakhand

Executive branch of the government of Uttarakhand

* Head of state: List of governors of Uttarakhand, Governor of Uttarakhand * Head of government: List of chief ministers of Uttarakhand, Chief Minister of Uttarakhand ** Cabinet (government), Cabinet: Uttarakhand Council of Ministers

Legislative branch of the government of Uttarakhand

* Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly ** List of speakers of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly, Speaker of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly ** List of leaders of the opposition in the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly, Leader of the Opposition in the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly ** List of constituencies of Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly, Constituencies of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly

Judicial branch of the government of Uttarakhand

* Uttarakhand High Court ** List of Chief Justices of the Uttarakhand High Court, Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court ** Seat: Nainital

Law and order in Uttarakhand

* Uttarakhand Police

Government agencies in Uttarakhand

* Uttarakhand Public Service Commission * Uttarakhand Human Rights Commission

History of Uttarakhand

* History of Uttarakhand

History of Uttarakhand, by period

Ancient Uttarakhand

* Uttarakuru, Uttarakuru Kingdom * Pauravas, Paurava Kingdom * Khasas, Khasa Kingdom * Kirata Kingdom * Nanda Empire * Maurya Empire * Kushan Empire * Kuninda Kingdom * Gupta Empire

Medieval Uttarakhand

* Karkota Empire * * Garhwal Kingdom ** Panwar dynasty * Kumaon Kingdom ** Katyuri kings, Katyuri dynasty ** Chand kings, Chand dynasty * Doti, Raika Kingdom * Khas Kingdom, Malla Kingdom * Gorkha Kingdom ** Shah dynasty * Anglo-Nepalese War * Treaty of Sugauli

Colonial Uttarakhand

* Company rule in India, Company rule ** Ceded and Conquered Provinces ** North Western Provinces ** Agra Presidency * British rule in India, British rule ** United Provinces of Agra and Oudh ** United Provinces of British India ** United Provinces (1937–1950), United Provinces * Coolie-Begar movement

Contemporary Uttarakhand

* Uttarakhand movement * Chipko movement * Rampur Tiraha firing case * Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000 – law that led to the formation of the State of Uttarakhand.

History of Uttarakhand, by region

* History of Dehradun

Culture of Uttarakhand

* Monuments in Uttarakhand ** List of Monuments of National Importance in Uttarakhand, Monuments of National Importance in Uttarakhand ** List of State Protected Monuments in Uttarakhand, State Protected Monuments in Uttarakhand * World Heritage Sites in Uttarakhand ** Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks

Art in Uttarakhand

* Music of Uttarakhand * Cuisine of Uttarakhand

Sports in Uttarakhand

* Cricket Association of Uttarakhand, Cricket in Uttarakhand ** Uttarakhand cricket team * Uttarakhand State Football Association, Football in Uttarakhand ** Uttarakhand football team ** Uttarakhand Super League

Symbols of Uttarakhand

* List of Uttarakhand state symbols, Symbols of Uttarakhand ** List of Indian state emblems, state emblem: Emblem of Uttarakhand, Diamond Shield ** List of Indian state songs, state song: Uttarakhand Devabhumi Matribhumi ** List of Indian state animals, state animal: Alpine Musk Deer ** List of Indian state birds, state bird: Himalayan Monal ** List of Indian state flowers, state flower: Brahma Kamal ** List of Indian state trees, state tree: Burans

Economy and infrastructure of Uttarakhand

* Economy of Uttarakhand ** Tourism in Uttarakhand *** Chota Char Dham ** State Industrial Development Corporation of Uttarakhand

Infrastructure of Uttarakhand

* Uttarakhand Transport Corporation * Char Dham Highway * Char Dham Railway * Urban Development Directorate (Uttarakhand), Urban Development Directorate

Education in Uttarakhand

* Education in Uttarakhand ** List of institutions of higher education in Uttarakhand, Institutions of higher education in Uttarakhand ** Uttarakhand Board of School Education

References

External links

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