Statistics for Indian States by Wikipedia Descriptions

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Wikipedia description	State	% Correct
Nickname(s): God's Own Country, Spice Garden of India, Land of Coconuts	Kerala	96%
An alternative theory states that the term derives from the word Maha ("great") and Rashtra ("nation/dominion")	Maharashtra	94%
Her capital, the Pink City, is noted for the ancient houses made of a type of sandstone dominated by a pink hue	Rajasthan	94%
Originally known as the State of Mysore, she was renamed in 1973	Karnataka	88%
The region was ruled by several empires, including the three great empires – Chera, Chola and Pandyan empires	Tamil Nadu	82%
Durga Puja is the biggest, most popular and widely celebrated festival	West Bengal	80%
The Sanskrit name for the region, as mentioned in the Ramayana and Mahabharata for example, was Panchanada which means "Land of the Five Rivers"	Punjab	78%
On 2 June 2014, the area was separated from the northwestern part of Andhra Pradesh as the newly formed 29th state with Hyderabad as its historic permanent capital	Telangana	76%
Three main cultural regions converge in the state: Magadh, Mithila, and Bhojpur.	Bihar	73%
Her economy is aided by wildlife tourism to Kaziranga National Park and Manas National Park, which are world heritage sites.	Assam	71%
Her Gir Forest National Park is home of the only wild population of the Asiatic lion in the world	Gujarat	69%
Her famous kitchen of the Shri Jagannath Temple, is reputed to be the largest in the world, with 1,000 chefs, working around 752 wood-burning clay hearths called chulas, to feed over 10,000 people each day	Odisha	67%
Notable for her biodiversity, including alpine and subtropical climates, as well as being a host to Kangchenjunga, the highest peak in India and third highest on Earth	Sikkim	67%
Tata Steel, a S&P CNX 500 conglomerate has its corporate office and main plant in Tatanagar	Jharkhand	63%
The third-smallest state in the country, it covers 10,491 km ²	Tripura	63%
Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota Range at barrier island is India's primary orbital launch site	Andhra Pradesh	61%
During the 1959 Tibetan uprising, the Dalai Lama came here and currently lives here as a refugee	Himachal Pradesh	61%
She hosts the Bengal tiger in Jim Corbett National Park, the oldest national park of the Indian subcontinent	Uttarakhand	61%
The Meitei ethnic group represents around 53% of the population of the state, followed by various Naga tribes at 24% and various Kuki-Zo tribes at 16%	Manipur	55%
She is famous for her living root bridges, a kind of suspension bridge made over rivers using intertwined roots of Ficus elastica trees planted on opposite banks of the river or hill slopes	Meghalaya	49%