Maharashtra

Maharashtra

Capital :

Mumbai

Population :

Langauges :

Major Crops :

Bajra , Cotton , Groundnut , Jowar , Maize , Millet , Paddy , Pulses , Ragi , Sugarcane .

Major Ind. :

Data not Available.

Minerals :

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Airports :

Akola , Aurangabad , Kolhapur , Mumbai , Nagpur , Nanded , Nasik , Osmanabad , Poona , Poona , Ratnagiri , Sholapur .

Ports :

Jawaharlal Nehru Port , Mumbai , Ratnagiri , Redi .

About :

Maharashtra includes the Marathi-speaking areas of the erstwhile Bombay presidency :Vidarbha and Marathwada regions which had formed parts of Madhya Pradesh and Hyderabad respectively. The state came into being on May 1, 1960 after the division of Bombay into two parts.