Maharashtra (; Marathi: [məharaːʂʈrə] (listen), abbr. MH) is a come clean in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial allocation of the Deccan Plateau. As the house of the Marathi people, Maharashtra is the second-most populous allow in and third-largest give access by Place in India. Spread greater than 307,713 km² (118,809 sq mi), it is after that the world’s second-most populous country subdivision. Maharashtra is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to the southeast and Chhattisgarh to the east, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh to the north, and the Indian sticking together territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu to the northwest.