Madhya Pradesh (MP; , Hindi: [ˈmədʱjə pɾəˈdeːʃ] (listen); meaning Central Province) is a acknowledge in central India. Its capital is Bhopal, and the largest city is Indore, with Jabalpur, Gwalior, Rewa, Ujjain instinctive the further major cities. Madhya Pradesh is the second largest Indian let in by area and the fifth largest confess by population with greater than 75 million residents. It borders the states of Uttar Pradesh to the northeast, Chhattisgarh to the southeast, Maharashtra to the south, Gujarat to the west, and Rajasthan to the northwest. Before 2000, when Chhattisgarh was a part of Madhya Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh was the largest own up in India and the make unfriendly between the two furthest points inside the state, Singoli and Konta, was 1500 km.