Coordinates (Srinagar): 33.45°N 76.24°E Country India Established 1947-10-26 Capital *. Jammu (winter) *. Srinagar (summer) Largest city Srinagar Districts 22 Government [*] • Governor Narinder Nath Vohra • Chief Minister Omar Abdullah ( NC ) • Legislature Bicameral (89 + 36 seats) Area • Total 222,236 km 2 (85,806 sq mi) Area rank 6th Population (2011) • Total 12,548,926 • Rank 18th Time zone IST ( UTC+05:30 ) ISO 3166 code IN-JK HDI 0.601 ( medium ) HDI rank 17th (2005) Literacy 66.7% (21st) Official languages Urdu , Kashmiri , Dogri Website jammukashmir.nic.in Jammu and Kashmir i / dʒ ɑː m uː / & / k æ ʃ m ɪər / is the northernmost state of India . It is situated mostly in the Himalayan mountains. Jammu and Kashmir shares a border with the states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab to the south and internationally withthe People's Republic of China to the north and east and the Pakistan -administered territories of Azad Kashmir and Gilgit–Baltistan , to the west and northwest respectively. Formerly a part of the erstwhile Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu , which governed the larger historic region of Kashmir , this territory is disputed among China, India and Pakistan . Pakistan, which claims the territory as disputed [ 1 ] , refers to it alternatively as Indian-occupied Kashmir or Indian-held Kashmir, while some internationalagencies such as the United Nations [ 2 ] call it Indian-administered Kashmir. The regions under the control of Pakistan are referred to as Pakistan-occupied Kashmir or PoKwithin India. Jammu and Kashmir consists of three regions: Jammu , the Kashmir valley and Ladakh .