Category:Rajasthan

**Rajasthan**
	largest state in India
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Instance of	state of India
Location	India
Capital	Jaipur;
Legislative body	Rajasthan Legislative Assembly;
Executive body	Rajasthan Legislative Assembly;
Official language	Hindi;
Head of state	Kalyan Singh;
Head of government	Vasundhara Raje;
Inception	30 March 1949;
Population	68,548,437 (2011);
Area	342,269 km²;
Different from	Rajasthan;
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	27° 00′ 00″ N, 74° 00′ 00″ E
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Rājasthān (Hindi: राजस्थान) is the largest state of the Republic of India in terms of area. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert (Thar Desert), which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with Pakistan. The state borders Pakistan to the west, Gujarat to the southwest, Madhya Pradesh to the southeast, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana to the northeast and Punjab to the north. Rajasthan covers an area of 132,150 sq mi or 342,269 km². The state capital is Jaipur. Geographical features include the Thar Desert along north-western Rajasthan and the termination of the en:Ghaggar River near the archaeological ruins at Kalibanga, which are the oldest in the subcontinent discovered so far.