 As the home of the Marathi people, Maharashtra is the second-most populous state and third-largest state by area in India.Spread over , 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 union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu to the north west.