🗺 State & UT profiles
Karnataka
🗺 Geography
⛰ Land and rivers
Physiographic divisions: The Peninsular Plateau (most of the state)
Mountains & hills: The Western Ghats (part of the state)
Plateaus: The Deccan Plateau (most of the state)
Rivers: Krishna, Bhima, Tungabhadra, Kaveri, Pennar
🌿 Protected areas and natural heritage
Biosphere reserves: Nilgiri (1986)
Ramsar wetlands (4): Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary, Aghanashini Estuary, Magadi Kere Conservation Reserve, Ankasamudra Bird Conservation Reserve
Tiger reserves (5): Bandipur, Bhadra, Kali, Nagarhole, Biligiri Ranganatha Temple
🏭 Resources and economy
Crops: Jowar, Ragi, Maize, Pulses, Sugarcane, Coffee, Rubber, Cotton
Minerals & energy: Iron ore, Wind power
Industries: Sugar
Major ports: New Mangalore
📜 History
👑 Who held this land
Kingdoms, empires and cultures whose territory, as drawn on our map, covered a large part of today’s Karnataka, 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 Karnataka
- c. 2,900 BCE Ash mounds of the southern Neolithic · Sanganakallu
- c. 297 BCE Chandragupta Maurya retires to Shravanabelagola · Shravanabelagola
- 543 CE Pulakeshin I fortifies Vatapi · Badami
- 634 CE Aihole inscription of Ravikirti · Aihole
- 642 CE Narasimhavarman I captures Vatapi · Badami
- c. 850 CE Amoghavarsha's Kavirajamarga · Manyakheta
- 973 CE Tailapa II overthrows the Rashtrakutas · Manyakheta
- 1076 Chalukya-Vikrama era of Vikramaditya VI · Kalyani
- 1336 ★ Vijayanagara founded · Hampi
- 1347 ★ Bahmani Sultanate founded · Gulbarga
- 1420 Nicolò de' Conti visits Vijayanagara · Hampi
- 1443 Abdur Razzaq's embassy to Vijayanagara · Hampi
- 1490 Bijapur and Ahmadnagar break from the Bahmanis · Bijapur
- 1509 Krishnadevaraya's accession · Hampi
- 1520 Krishnadevaraya takes Raichur · Raichur
- 1565 ★ Battle of Talikota · Talikota
- 1686 Mughals annex Bijapur · Bijapur
- 1767 First Anglo-Mysore War · Mysore
- 1784 Treaty of Mangalore · Mangaluru
- 1792 Treaty of Seringapatam · Srirangapatna
- 1799 ★ Fall of Srirangapatna · Srirangapatna
- 1824 Kittur revolt against the Company · Kittur
- 1969 ISRO founded · Bengaluru
- 2014 Mangalyaan reaches Mars orbit · Bengaluru
🏛 Historic places
🎨 People and culture
👥 2011 Census
- Population
- 61,130,704
- Share of India’s population (%)
- 5.05
- Density (per sq km)
- 319
- Decadal growth 2001–11 (%)
- 15.67
- Urban population (%)
- 38.57
- Work participation rate (%)
- 45.6
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.