Maharashtra (; Marathi: [məharaːʂʈrə] (listen), abbr. MH) is a declare 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 own up and third-largest permit by area in India. Spread higher than 307,713 km² (118,809 sq mi), it is also 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.