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Coral reefs, a live volcano and the Cellular Jail.

• 🌋Barren Island has India's only active volcano
• 🐒The Nicobar crab-eating macaque is a monkey found only in the Nicobars

Kuchipudi dance, Tirupati and a long coast on the Bay of Bengal.

• 🐯Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam is the largest tiger reserve in India
• 🌶️Guntur has one of the biggest chilli markets in Asia

The land of the dawn-lit mountains and many tribes.

• 🛕Tawang Monastery is the largest monastery in India
• 🌸More than 600 kinds of orchids grow here, the most of any state

Tea gardens, the one-horned rhino and the mighty Brahmaputra.

• 🦏Kaziranga has about two-thirds of the world's one-horned rhinos
• ✨Muga silk is naturally golden and gets shinier with every wash

Nalanda, Bodh Gaya, Chhath Puja and Madhubani paintings.

• 📚Nalanda was one of the world's first great universities
• 💰Sher Shah Suri made a coin called the rupiya, the start of today's rupee

Le Corbusier's planned city, the Rock Garden and the Open Hand.

• 🌹The Zakir Hussain Rose Garden has over 1,500 kinds of roses
• 🏏Kapil Dev, born here, captained India to win the 1983 Cricket World Cup

Forests, tribes, waterfalls and the rice bowl of India.

• 👑Bastar Dussehra lasts about 75 days, the longest Dussehra in the world
• 🥫It is the only state in India that mines tin

Portuguese forts, Warli art and the sea.

• 🏖️Ghoghla Beach in Diu has a Blue Flag, a world award for clean, safe beaches
• 🎨Warli painting from here is famous across India and the world

The capital of India, the Red Fort, Qutub Minar and chaat.

• 🗼The Qutub Minar is the tallest brick minaret in the world
• 🏅Delhi hosted the first Asian Games in 1951

India's smallest state, from the Carnival to the churches of Old Goa.

• 💦On Sao Joao, young men wear crowns of leaves and jump into wells!
• 🌰The cashew came to Goa from Brazil with the Portuguese

Nine nights of Garba, a sky full of kites and a white salt desert.

• 💰Look at a ₹100 note: that is Gujarat's Rani ki Vav on the back!
• 🦩Thousands of flamingos nest in the Rann of Kutch at Flamingo City

Kurukshetra, wrestlers, Olympic champions and green fields.

• 🚀Kalpana Chawla of Karnal was the first woman of Indian origin in space
• 🏺Rakhigarhi is the largest Harappan site in India

Snowy mountains, apples, toy trains and the land of gods.

• 🗳️Shyam Saran Negi of Kinnaur cast the first vote of independent India
• 🌳Khajjiar, a meadow with a lake, is called “Mini Switzerland”

Dal Lake, tulips, pashmina and the Chenab Bridge.

• 🌷Srinagar has the largest tulip garden in Asia
• 🍎It grows most of India's apples

The land of forests, its tribes, its festivals and its minerals.

• 🪱India's biggest maker of Tussar silk, a wild silk with a natural golden colour
• 🏏M.S. Dhoni, the captain who led India to World Cup wins, is from Ranchi

Hampi, Mysuru Dasara, sandalwood and India's tech city.

• 🐘Karnataka has the most wild elephants of any state
• 💻Bengaluru is called the “Silicon Valley of India”

Onam flower carpets, snake boats and green-faced Kathakali dancers.

• 🏞️41 of its 44 rivers flow west into the Arabian Sea
• 🥝The state fruit, the jackfruit, is the biggest fruit that grows on a tree

The land of high passes, monasteries and the snow leopard.

• 🏔️The Siachen Glacier is the highest battlefield in the world
• 🔭Hanle is India's first Dark Sky Reserve

India's smallest Union Territory, a scatter of coral islands in the Arabian Sea.

• 🦈Whale sharks, the biggest fish in the world, swim past Agatti and Minicoy
• ✈️Agatti has the only airport in all of Lakshadweep

The heart of India, its tigers, cheetahs and temples.

• 0️⃣Gwalior Fort has one of the oldest written zeros in the world
• 💎Panna has India's only working diamond mine

Ten days for Ganpati, the land of Shivaji Maharaj and India's biggest city.

• 🛕The Kailasa temple at Ellora was carved from one rock!
• 🦋The Blue Mormon became India's first state butterfly in 2015

The jewel of India, Loktak Lake and the dancing deer.

• 🏝️Keibul Lamjao is the only floating national park in the world
• 🏇Imphal's Mapal Kangjeibung is one of the oldest polo grounds in the world

The abode of clouds, living root bridges and very heavy rain.

• 🌧️Mawsynram gets the highest average rainfall on Earth
• 🪜Nongriat has a double-decker root bridge, one bridge above another

Green hills, the bamboo dance and India's first fully literate state.

• 🌼Mautam bamboo flowers all at once only about every 48 to 50 years
• 🚗Aizawl is famous for quiet roads: drivers wait in line and rarely honk

The land of festivals, sixteen tribes and the Hornbill Festival.

• 🌿Khonoma is called India's first green village
• 🪴The Dzükou lily grows only in the high parts of the Dzükou Valley

Lord Jagannath, the Konark Sun Temple and the home of Indian hockey.

• 🐬Irrawaddy dolphins swim in Chilika, India's largest brackish-water lagoon
• 🐅Simlipal is famous for rare black tigers

Four little pieces of France on India's coasts.

• 4️⃣Mahe, the smallest part, lies far away inside Kerala
• 🌍Auroville was begun in 1968 as a town for the whole world

The land of five rivers, the Golden Temple and Bhangra.

• 🌾Punjab is called the “Granary of India”
• 🎸The tumbi has only one string

The land of kings, forts, camels and the Thar Desert.

• 🧱Kumbhalgarh's wall runs about 36 km, so it is called the “Great Wall of India”
• 🪜Chand Baori stepwell has about 3,500 steps

A festival for the mountain itself, twelve official languages and India's first organic state.

• 🧑‍🌾Sikkim became the first fully organic state in the world
• ⛰️Khangchendzonga is the highest mountain in India

The land of temples, and home of one of the oldest languages still spoken.

• 🌼The Kurinji flower blooms only once every twelve years
• 🍚At Pongal, sweet rice boils over and everyone shouts “Pongalo Pongal!”

Bathukamma, Charminar, biryani and India's youngest state.

• 🦪Hyderabad is known as the City of Pearls
• 🥣Hyderabadi haleem was India's first meat dish to get a GI tag

Royal palaces, Queen pineapples and nineteen tribes.

• 🤸‍♀️Dipa Karmakar came 4th in the vault at the Rio 2016 Olympics
• 🌳Tripura is India's second biggest rubber grower

The Taj Mahal, the Kumbh Mela and India's biggest population.

• 🐦The Sarus crane, the tallest flying bird in the world, is UP's state bird
• 💍Firozabad makes so many bangles it is called the Glass City

Devbhoomi, the land of the gods, where the Ganga and the Yamuna are born.

• 🐯Jim Corbett was India's first national park (1936)
• 🏗️The Tehri Dam is the tallest dam in India

Durga Puja, Tagore, the Sundarbans tigers and Darjeeling tea.

• 🚇Kolkata has India's first underwater metro, under the Hooghly
• 🍵Darjeeling tea was India's first GI tag