Nicknames of Places - II

1. The Land of the Thousand Lakes – Finland

2. The mother-in-law of Europe – Denmark

3. The Roof of the World – Tibet

4. Iberian Peninsula – Spain and Portugal

5. Robinson Crusoe’s Island – Juan Fernandez. Tobago

6. The Golden State – California

7. Silver State – Nevada

8. Copper State – Arizona

9. The Queen of the Adriatic – Venice

10. The Barbary States – Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya

Nicknames of Places - I

1. The Emerald Isle – Ireland

2. The Pearl of the Antilles – Cuba

3. The Land of Oat Cakes – Scotland

4. The Land of the Golden Fleece – Australia

5. The land of the Midnight Sun – Lapland, Norway

6. The Land of the Flying Fish – Barbados

7. The Land of the Rising Sun - Japan

8. The Land of the Dykes - Holland

9. The Land of the Tulips - Holland

10. The Land of the White Elephant – Thailand

Governors

Andhra Pradesh– Shri E.S Lakshmi Narasimhan
Arunachal Pradesh – General (Rtd.) J.J. Singh
Assam – Shri Janaki Ballav Pattanaik
Bihar – Shri Devanand Konwar
Chhattisgarh – Shri Shekhar Dutt
Goa – Shri K. Sankaranarayanan
Gujarat – Dr. Kamla Beniwal
Haryana – Shri Jagannath Pahadia
Himachal Pradesh – Smt. Urmila Singh
Jammu and Kashmir – Shri N. N. Vohra
Jharkhand – Dr. Syed Ahmed
Karnataka – Shri H.R. Bhardwaj
Kerala – Shri M.O.H. Farook
Madhya Pradesh – Shri Ram Naresh Yadav
Maharashtra – Shri Kateekal Sankaranarayanan
Manipur – Shri Gurbachan Jagat
Meghalaya – Shri Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary
Mizoram – Shri Vakkom Purushothaman
Nagaland – Shri. Nikhil Kumar
Orissa – Shri Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare
Punjab – Shri Shivraj Patil
Rajasthan – Shri Shivraj Patil
Sikkim – Shri Balmiki Prasad Singh
Tamil Nadu – Dr. K. Rosaiah
Tripura – Shri Dnyandeo Yashwantrao Patil
Uttar Pradesh – Shri B.L. Joshi
Uttarakhand – Smt. Margaret Alva
West Bengal – Shri M.K. Narayanan

Council of Ministers - III

Portfolio	Name of Minister
Minister of Shipping	Shri G.K. Vasan
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Minister of Water Resources	Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal
Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment	Shri Mukul Balkrishna Wasnik
Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers	Shri M. K. Alagiri
Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises	Shri Praful Manoharbhai Patel
Minister of Coal	Shri Sriprakash Jaiswal
Minister of Law and Justice Minister of Minority Affairs	Shri Salman Khurshid
Minister of Tribal Affairs Minister of Panchayati Raj	Shri V. Kishore Chandra Deo
Minister of Steel	Shri Beni Prasad Verma
Minister of Railways	Shri Dinesh Trivedi
Minister of Rural Development Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation	Shri Jairam Ramesh

Council of Ministers - II

Portfolio	Name of Minister
Minister of New and Renewable Energy	Dr. Farooq Abdullah
Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas	Shri Jaipal Sudini Reddy
Minister of Urban Development	Shri Kamal Nath
Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs Minister of Civil Aviation	Shri Vayalar Ravi
Minister of Information and Broadcasting	Smt. Ambika Soni
Minister of Labour and Employment	Shri Mallikarjun Kharge
Minister of Human Resource Development Minister of Communications and Information Technology	Shri Kapil Sibal
Minister of Commerce Industry and Minister of Textiles	Shri Anand Sharma
Minister of Road Transport and Highways	Shri C. P. Joshi
Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Minister of Culture	Kumari Selja
Minister of Tourism	Shri Subodh Kant Sahai