🗺 State & UT profiles
Maharashtra
🗺 Geography
⛰ Land and rivers
Physiographic divisions: The Peninsular Plateau (part of the state)
Mountains & hills: The Satpura range (part of the state), The Western Ghats (part of the state)
Plateaus: The Deccan Plateau (part of the state)
Rivers: Godavari (Dakshin Ganga), Indravati, Krishna, Bhima, Tapi
🌿 Protected areas and natural heritage
Ramsar wetlands (3): Nandur Madhameshwar, Lonar Lake, Thane Creek
Tiger reserves (6): Melghat, Tadobha Andhari, Pench – MH, Sahyadri, Nawegaon Nagzira, Bor
🏭 Resources and economy
Crops: Jowar, Bajra, Pulses, Sugarcane, Cotton
Minerals & energy: Manganese, Bauxite, Wind power
Industries: Cotton textiles, Sugar, Aluminium smelting
Major ports: Mumbai, Jawaharlal Nehru Port
📜 History
👑 Who held this land
Kingdoms, empires and cultures whose territory, as drawn on our map, covered a large part of today’s Maharashtra, 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 Maharashtra
- c. 1,400 BCE Jorwe farming villages at Inamgaon · Inamgaon
- c. 100 CE Chaitya halls at Karla and Nashik · Karla
- c. 124 CE Gautamiputra Satakarni defeats Nahapana · Nashik
- c. 380 CE Gupta-Vakataka marriage alliance · Nandivardhana
- c. 480 CE Ajanta's later caves under Harishena · Ajanta
- c. 753 CE Dantidurga founds Rashtrakuta power · Ellora region
- c. 757 CE Kailasa temple, Ellora begun · Ellora
- 1296 Alauddin Khalji raids Devagiri · Devagiri
- 1327 Capital shifted to Daulatabad · Daulatabad
- 1659 Shivaji kills Afzal Khan at Pratapgad · Pratapgad
- 1661 Bombay passes to England · Mumbai
- 1665 Treaty of Purandar · Purandar
- 1674 ★ Shivaji crowned Chhatrapati · Raigad
- 1680 Death of Shivaji · Raigad
- 1681 Aurangzeb moves to the Deccan · Aurangabad
- 1689 Execution of Sambhaji · Tulapur
- 1707 ★ Death of Aurangzeb · Ahmednagar
- 1708 Death of Guru Gobind Singh · Nanded
- 1713 Balaji Vishwanath becomes Peshwa · Satara
- 1720 Baji Rao I becomes Peshwa · Pune
- 1724 Battle of Shakar Kheda: Hyderabad State founded · Shakar Kheda
- 1775 First Anglo-Maratha War begins · Pune
- 1795 Battle of Kharda · Kharda
- 1802 Treaty of Bassein · Vasai
- 1803 Battle of Assaye · Assaye
- 1817 Battle of Khadki · Khadki
- 1818 ★ Third Anglo-Maratha War ends · Pune
- 1848 Doctrine of Lapse applied to Satara · Satara
- 1853 First passenger railway: Bombay to Thane · Mumbai
- 1885 ★ Indian National Congress founded · Mumbai
- 1915 Gandhi returns to India · Mumbai
- 1916 Home Rule Leagues launched · Pune
- 1932 Poona Pact · Pune
- 1942 ★ Quit India Movement · Mumbai
- 1946 Royal Indian Navy mutiny · Mumbai
- 1960 Bombay State split into Maharashtra and Gujarat · Mumbai
- 2008 Mumbai terror attacks · Mumbai
🏛 Historic places
🎨 People and culture
👥 2011 Census
- Population
- 112,372,972
- Share of India’s population (%)
- 9.29
- Density (per sq km)
- 365
- Decadal growth 2001–11 (%)
- 15.99
- Urban population (%)
- 45.23
- Work participation rate (%)
- 44
🎨 Art & culture
Living painting traditions: Warli painting
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.