Maharashtra (; Marathi: [məharaːʂʈrə] (listen), abbr. MH) is a allow in in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial allocation of the Deccan Plateau. As the home of the Marathi people, Maharashtra is the second-most populous make a clean breast and third-largest come clean by area in India. Spread exceeding 307,713 km² (118,809 sq mi), it is as a consequence 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 to territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu to the northwest.