🗺 State & UT profiles
Madhya Pradesh
🗺 Geography
⛰ Land and rivers
Physiographic divisions: The Peninsular Plateau (part of the state)
Mountains & hills: The Vindhyan range (part of the state), The Satpura range (part of the state)
Plateaus: The Chotanagpur Plateau (part of the state)
Rivers: Chambal, Betwa, Son, Narmada, Tapi, Mahi
Lakes & reservoirs: Gandhi Sagar (part of the state)
🌿 Protected areas and natural heritage
Biosphere reserves: Pachmarhi (1999), Achanakmar-Amarkantak (2005), Panna (2011)
Ramsar wetlands (5): Bhoj Wetland, Sirpur Wetland, Sakhya Sagar, Yashwant Sagar, Tawa Reservoir
Tiger reserves (9): Kanha, Pench, Bandhavgarh, Panna, Satpura, Sanjay Dhubri, Veerangana Durgavati, Ratapani, Madhav
🏭 Resources and economy
Crops: Wheat, Jowar, Maize, Pulses, Cotton
Minerals & energy: Manganese, Bauxite, Copper
Industries: Sugar
📜 History
👑 Who held this land
Kingdoms, empires and cultures whose territory, as drawn on our map, covered a large part of today’s Madhya Pradesh, 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 Madhya Pradesh
- c. 1,700 BCE Malwa culture at Navdatoli · Navdatoli
- c. 150 BCE Bharhut stupa railings carved · Bharhut
- c. 113 BCE Heliodorus Pillar at Vidisha · Vidisha
- 57 BCE Vikram Samvat era begins · Ujjain
- c. 50 BCE Sanchi gateways carved · Sanchi
- c. 395 CE Chandragupta II conquers the Western Kshatrapas · Ujjain
- c. 400 CE Kalidasa at the Gupta court · Ujjain
- c. 510 CE Huna invasions under Toramana · Eran
- c. 528 CE Yashodharman defeats Mihirakula · Mandsaur
- c. 618 CE ★ Pulakeshin II defeats Harsha on the Narmada · Narmada river
- c. 1055 Death of Raja Bhoja · Dhar
- 1545 Death of Sher Shah at Kalinjar · Kalinjar
- 1601 Asirgarh falls to Akbar · Asirgarh
- 1782 Treaty of Salbai · Salbai
- 1858 Rani Lakshmibai falls at Gwalior · Gwalior
- 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy · Bhopal
🏛 Historic places
🎨 People and culture
👥 2011 Census
- Population
- 72,597,565
- Share of India’s population (%)
- 6
- Density (per sq km)
- 236
- Decadal growth 2001–11 (%)
- 20.3
- Urban population (%)
- 27.63
- Work participation rate (%)
- 43.5
🎨 Art & culture
Living painting traditions: Pithoro painting, Gond and Sawara paintings
UNESCO intangible heritage: Kumbh Mela
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.