Administrative divisions of India, including 28 states and 7 union territories.
India is a federal republic of twenty-eight states and seven Union Territories.
All states, and the two union territories of Puducherry and the National Capital Territory of Delhi have elected governments. The other five union territories have centrally appointed administrators and hence are under direct rule of the President. In 1956, under the States Reorganisation Act, states were formed on a linguistic basis.
Since then, this structure has remained largely unchanged. Each state or union territory is divided into basic units of government and administration called districts. There are nearly 600 districts in India.
The districts in turn are further divided into tehsils and eventually into villages.
