<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jharkhand" id="mwAVg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Jharkhand">Jharkhand</a> officially <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bihar_Reorganisation_Act,_2000" id="mwAVk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000">becomes</a> the 28th <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_India" id="mwAVo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="States of India">state of India</a>, formed from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_districts_of_Bihar" id="mwAVs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="List of districts of Bihar">eighteen districts</a> of southern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bihar" id="mwAVw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Bihar">Bihar</a>.<sup about="#mwt78" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{"name":"a"},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-a-14"}}' id="cite_ref-a_14-0" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./November_15#cite_note-a-14" id="mwAV0" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 14;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAV4">[14]</span></a></sup>