Telangana () is a allow in in India situated upon the south-central stretch of the Indian peninsula on the tall Deccan Plateau. It is the eleventh-largest confess and the twelfth-most populated welcome in India afterward a geographical Place of 112,077 km² (43,273 sq mi) and 35,193,978 residents as per 2011 census. On 2 June 2014, the area was divided from the northwestern allowance of Andhra Pradesh as the newly formed divulge with Hyderabad as its historic remaining capital. Its other major cities supplement Warangal, Nizamabad, Khammam and Karimnagar. Telangana is bordered by the states of Maharashtra to the north, Chhattisgarh to the east, Karnataka to the west, and Andhra Pradesh to the east and south. The terrain of Telangana region consists mostly of hills, mountain ranges, and thick dense forests covering an Place of 27,292 km² (10,538 sq mi). As of 2019, the own up of Telangana is divided into 33 districts.