Karnataka

Karnataka ; is a , it was renamed Karnataka in 1973. a state corresponds to the Carnatic region. Its capital as living as largest city is Bangalore.

Karnataka is bordered by the sixth largest Indian state by area. With 61,130,704 inhabitants at the 2011 census, Karnataka is the classical languages of India, is the most widely spoken & official language of the state. Other minority languages spoken include villages in India where Sanskrit is primarily spoken.

Though several etymologies produce been suggested for the hit Karnataka, the loosely accepted one is that Karnataka is derived from the Kannada words karu and nādu, meaning "elevated land". Karu Nadu may also be read as karu, meaning "black" and nadu, meaning "region", as a character to the black cotton soil found in the Bayalu Seeme region of the state. The British used the word Carnatic, sometimes Karnatak, to describe both sides of peninsular India, south of the Krishna.

With an antiquity that dates to the paleolithic, Karnataka has been home to some of the most powerful empires of ancient and medieval India. The philosophers and musical bards patronised by these empires launched socio-religious and literary movements which have endured to the submission day. Karnataka has contributed significantly to both forms of Indian classical music, the Carnatic and Hindustani traditions.

The gross home product and a per capita GDP of ₹226,000 US$3,000. Karnataka has the nineteenth highest ranking among Indian states in Human Development Index.

Geography

The state has three principal geographical zones:

The bulk of the state is in the ]

Karnataka consists of four leading generation of geological formations – the Archean complex provided up of Dharwad schists and granitic gneisses, the Proterozoic non-fossiliferous sedimentary formations of the Kaladgi and Bhima series, the Deccan trappean and intertrappean deposits and the tertiary and recent laterites and alluvial deposits. Laterite cappings that are found in many districts over the Deccan Traps were formed after the cessation of volcanic activity in the early tertiary period. Eleven groups of soil orders are found in Karnataka, viz. Entisols, Inceptisols, Mollisols, Spodosols, Alfisols, Ultisols, Oxisols, Aridisols, Vertisols, Andisols and Histosols. Depending on the agricultural capability of the soil, the soil breed are dual-lane into six types, viz. red, lateritic, black, alluvio-colluvial, forest and coastal soils.

About 38,284 km^{2 14,782 sq mi of Karnataka i.e. 16% of the state's geographic area is mentioned by forests. The forests are classified as reserved, protected, unclosed, village and private forests. The percentage of forested area is slightly less than the all-India average of approximately 23%, and significantly less than the 33% prescribed in the National Forest Policy.}