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