🗺 State & UT profiles
Jharkhand
🗺 Geography
⛰ Land and rivers
Physiographic divisions: The Northern Plain (part of the state), The Peninsular Plateau (most of the state)
Plateaus: The Chotanagpur Plateau (most of the state)
🌿 Protected areas and natural heritage
Ramsar wetlands (1): Udhwa Lake Bird Sanctuary
Tiger reserves (1): Palamau
🏭 Resources and economy
Crops: Ragi
Minerals & energy: Iron ore, Bauxite, Copper, Mica, Coal, Nuclear minerals
📜 History
👑 Who held this land
Kingdoms, empires and cultures whose territory, as drawn on our map, covered a large part of today’s Jharkhand, or that were based here. Extents are approximate, so treat this as a guide to who held the region — not as exact borders.
📅 Events in Jharkhand
- c. 1161 End of the Pala dynasty · Bengal
- 1855 Santhal Hul (rebellion) · Santhal Pargana
- 1899 Birsa Munda's Ulgulan · Ranchi
🎨 People and culture
👥 2011 Census
- Population
- 32,966,238
- Share of India’s population (%)
- 2.72
- Density (per sq km)
- 414
- Decadal growth 2001–11 (%)
- 22.34
- Urban population (%)
- 24.05
- Work participation rate (%)
- 39.7
Geography: features are those on our Geography map that cover a good part of the state (or that NCERT places in it); hazards, reserves, crops, minerals, industries and ports are where NCERT, UNESCO or the Ramsar list name or place them. Census figures are for 2011, as NCERT prints them.
How this is made: nothing here is new — it is YugMap’s own map data sorted by today’s states. A kingdom is listed if its territory on our map covered at least 40% of the state at some point, or if its centre or capital lies here; events and places are listed where their map point falls inside the state. State outlines follow India’s official map.