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State of Mahārāshtra, India — Towns & Travel Guide
Maharashtra is one of the larger states of India, formed in 1960.
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Towns & cities in State of Mahārāshtra
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Mumbai
The sea wraps Mumbai on the Konkan coast, capital of Maharashtra built across seven islands, known for its old churches and deep harbour.Where to stay →
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Pune
Old wadas and museums fill the Deccan Plateau city of Pune in Maharashtra, founded in 1436 and once spelled Poona, known for the Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum.Where to stay →
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Navi Mumbai
Navi Mumbai is a planned city in Maharashtra on the mainland across Thane Creek from Mumbai, laid out from 1971 under the name New Bombay.Where to stay →
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Nagpur
Nagpur is a city in the State of Mahārāshtra, the largest in central India and a second capital of the state, founded in 1702 and known as the Orange City.Where to stay →
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Thāne
Thāne neighbours Mumbai in the north-east of Salsette Island, and India's first railway line ran to its station from Bori Bunder.Where to stay →
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Pimpri-Chinchwad
Pimpri-Chinchwad, known as PCMC, is a satellite city about 15 km northwest of Pune, built on automotive, IT and manufacturing industry.Where to stay →
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Nashik
Nashik is a city on the river Godavari in the State of Mahārāshtra, an ancient pilgrimage town and the largest of Northern Maharashtra.Where to stay →
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Kalyān
The Ulhas River bends past Kalyān east of Thane in Maharashtra, a taluka town of Thane district and a founding city of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.Where to stay →
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Dombivali
Dombivali, paired with Kalyan on the Ulhas River east of Thane, is a Central Railway commuter city whose station carries much of Mumbai's workforce.Where to stay →
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Virār
Virār is a coastal city at the southern end of Palghar district, forming the northern third of Vasai-Virar in Mahārāshtra.Where to stay →
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Aurangabad
Aurangabad is a city in the State of Mahārāshtra, the largest town of the Marathwada region, first founded in 1592 on the upland of the Deccan Traps.Where to stay →
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Sholapur
Solapur is a textile city on the dry Deccan plateau of southern Maharashtra, India, known for its temple, its fort, and its woven cloth.Where to stay →
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Bhiwandi
Bhiwandi is a city of Thane district in Maharashtra, northeast of both Mumbai and Thane and part of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.Where to stay →
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Amravati
Amravati, or Amraoti, heads both Amravati District and Amravati Division in Maharashtra's Vidarbha region, and tradition ties it to Indra.Where to stay →
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Borivli
Borivli, also written Borivali, is a suburb of northwestern Mumbai, with the Portuguese churches of Mandapeshwar and EsselWorld among its landmarks.Where to stay →
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Sāngli
Sāngli is the headquarters of Sangli District on the banks of the river Krishna, known as the Turmeric City of India for its trade in the spice.Where to stay →
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Nanded
Nanded, founded in 1610, is the district headquarters of Nanded district and the second largest city in Marathwada, in Mahārāshtra.Where to stay →
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Kolhāpur
Kolhapur is a city of southern Maharashtra in India, an old Maratha capital famed for its goddess temple, its wrestling pits, and its leather sandals.Where to stay →
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Ulhasnagar
Ulhasnagar stands 26 km from Thane City in Thane district, a municipal city settled by Sindhi refugees after the partition of India.Where to stay →
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Malegaon
Malegaon is a loom city in Nashik District, on the bank of the Girna river, cut into two parts by the Mosam River running through its middle.Where to stay →
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Jalgaon
Jalgaon, the largest city in Khandesh, is a district headquarters on the Girna river in Mahārāshtra, known for bananas, cotton and gold.Where to stay →
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Akola
Akola is a city of the Vidarbha region in Maharashtra, split down the middle by the Morna River and surrounded by forts.Where to stay →
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Dhule
Dhule stands on the banks of the Panzara River in West Khandesh, a regional headquarters for MIDC, RTO and MTDC and one of Mahārāshtra's larger cities.Where to stay →
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Ahilyanagar
Ahilyanagar is a city of Maharashtra in India on the Deccan, long known as Ahmednagar, a fort city of the Nizam Shahi sultanate near the Shirdi shrines.Where to stay →
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Chānda
Chānda, better known as Chandrapur, is the Gond fort city of Vidarbha, walled since about 1300 and set where the Erai River meets the Zarpat.Where to stay →
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Parbhani
Parbhani, dated to 1610, is the administrative headquarters of Parbhani District and one of the largest cities of the Marathwada region.Where to stay →
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Ichalkaranji
Ichalkaranji, the textile city of Kolhapur district, is called the Manchester of Maharashtra for the power looms and grey fabric it turns out.Where to stay →
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Jālna
Jālna is the seat of Jālna district in the Marathwada region, part of the Aurangabad division of Mahārāshtra in India.Where to stay →
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Ambarnath
Ambarnath, or Ambernath, is an eastern suburban city of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region in Thane district, known for its Shiv Mandir.Where to stay →
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Panvel
Panvel is a town in Raigad district, held inside Navi Mumbai and close enough to Mumbai that the larger city sets its rhythm.Where to stay →
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Bhusawal
Bhusawal is a railway city on the Tapti River in Mahārāshtra, lying between the Satpura Range and the Ajanta Hills of the Deccan plateau.Where to stay →
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Badlapur
Badlapur stands on the Ulhas River in Thane district, a Mumbai Metropolitan Region city grown from the villages of Katrap, Kulgaon and Manjarli.Where to stay →
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Beed
Beed is the headquarters town of Beed district in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra, known for the Kankaleshwar Temple and a handful of monuments.Where to stay →
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Gondiā
Gondiā, the headquarters of Gondia District in Vidarbha, is called Rice City for the mills around it and sits close to the Madhya Pradesh border.Where to stay →
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Yavatmāl
Yavatmāl is the administrative headquarters of Yavatmāl District, a municipal council town in the Vidharbha region of Mahārāshtra.Where to stay →
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Satara
Satara stands near the confluence of the Krishna and the Venna in the Western Ghats, the last seat of the Maratha Empire under Shahu I.Where to stay →
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Wardha
Wardha is the administrative headquarters of Wardha district in Vidarbha, founded in 1866 and named after the Wardha River.Where to stay →
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Dharashiv
Dharashiv, the Marathwada town formerly called Osmanabad, is known for the rock-cut Dharashiv Caves and heads a district that kept the older spelling.Where to stay →
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Nandurbar
Nandurbar is a municipal council and the seat of Nandurbar district, which was split from Dhule in 1998 and reaches north to the Narmada river.Where to stay →
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Pandharpur
Pandharpur, also Pandaripuram, is a pilgrimage town on the banks of the Chandrabhagā River in Solapur District, built around the Vithoba temple.Where to stay →
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Parli Vaijnāth
Parli Vaijnāth is a city and municipal council in Beed district, seat of Parli taluka and second largest of the district's cities by size.Where to stay →
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Ratnagiri
Ratnagiri is a port city on the Arabian Sea in Ratnagiri District, known for its Hapus or Alphonso mangoes and called the Mango City.Where to stay →
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Ambājogāi
Ambājogāi, the cultural capital of Marathwada in Beed district, keeps the Kholeshwar Temple, the Shivleni Caves and the memory of Mukundraj.Where to stay →
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Pālghar
Pālghar has been the capital of Pālghar district since 2014, a Konkan division town working the Western Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway.Where to stay →
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Khopoli
Khopoli is an industrial town at the base of the Sahyadri mountains, on the Patalganga River in Khalapur taluka of Raigad district.Where to stay →
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Buldāna
Buldāna, also written Buldhana, is a small hill station in the Ajanta range and the headquarters of Buldhana District in Mahārāshtra.Where to stay →
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Shegaon
Shegaon is a city and municipal council in the Buldhana district of Maharashtra, and a pilgrimage centre built around Shri Sant Gajanan Maharaj.Where to stay →
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Lonavla
Lonavla, also written Lonavala, is a hill station and municipal council in Pune district, on the corridor between Mumbai and Pune.Where to stay →
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Karād
Karād stands at the Pritisangam, the confluence where the Koyna River joins the Krishna River, in Satara district of Mahārāshtra.Where to stay →
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Chiplūn
Chiplūn is a commercial town of Ratnagiri district, standing in the Konkan belt of Mahārāshtra along the Mumbai-Goa highway.Where to stay →
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Bārāmati
Bārāmati, written बारामती, is a city and tehsil in the Pune district of Mahārāshtra, roughly 100 km southeast of Pune.Where to stay →
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About State of Mahārāshtra
Maharashtra is known first for its cities.
What is State of Mahārāshtra known for?
Its principal cities are Mumbai and Pune, followed by Nashik, Nagpur, Aurangabad, and Kalyān. The state ranks among India's larger ones, so its draws spread wide rather than gather in a single centre. Maharashtra sits inside the tropics.
The year turns between a long dry season and a wet one that greens the land before the heat returns.
Where is State of Mahārāshtra?
Maharashtra sits in western India, one of the country's larger states by area. It lies in the tropics, north of the equator. The state is large enough that its cities sit far apart, from Mumbai and Pune to Nagpur, Nashik, Aurangabad, and Kalyān.
Distances between them run long. The year divides between a wet season and a dry one, the tropical rhythm that shapes the land more than any border does. Its edges are administrative, drawn when the state took its present form in 1960 within India.
What is State of Mahārāshtra like?
Maharashtra has been one state since 1960. That single frame is what its shared identity sits inside, holding many cities under one government and one set of borders. Day to day, the culture is an urban one, met in Mumbai, Pune, Nashik, Nagpur, Aurangabad, and Kalyān.
Each city keeps its own character. The state is wide enough that its cities can feel as different from each other as from anywhere beyond its borders. Over all of it runs the tropical year, wet season and dry, setting the rhythm of ordinary life across the whole state.
What is the history of State of Mahārāshtra?
Maharashtra took its present form in 1960, when it was created as a state within India, giving it the borders and government it still holds. The founding year matters. The land it covers, held in the tropics, had been settled and governed long before that year.
It has stood among India's larger states ever since.
What is the climate of State of Mahārāshtra?
Maharashtra has a tropical climate, warm for much of the year and split between a wet season and a dry one. Heat builds through the dry months. Rain arrives with the wet season and breaks the heat across the state, greening the land before the dry months return.
In the tropics, it sees little true cold.
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Updated October 2026