Indian Town Name Generator

-pur and -pura mean town or settlement, -garh means fort, -nagar means city, -ganj means market, -abad means settled or founded by, -kot means fort or walled town, -gaon means village, -palli and -halli mean village in Telugu and Kannada, -ur means town in Tamil and Kannada, -puram means town in Tamil and Malayalam, and -kulam means pond or tank in Malayalam and Tamil.

Both. Roughly a fifth are invented names built from real Indian place-name elements, such as Kesarpura, Bhimganj and Lakshmipet, and the rest are real small towns and tehsils across India's states, chosen because they sound typical of their region. Use the invented ones for fiction if you want a town that does not exist.

Pick the region first, then combine a root with a regional suffix: a deity or founder (Ram, Lakshmi, Fateh, Sultan), a feature (Sona for gold, Chandra for moon, Kesar for saffron) plus -pur, -garh, -ganj, -palli, -ur or -puram. Add Kalan or Khurd, Mandi, City or Sadar if you want it to feel like a real administrative name.

A district is the main administrative unit below the state, headed by a collector. Each district is split into tehsils or talukas, each centred on a tehsil town with a court and land-records office. Towns are classed as municipal corporations, municipalities or nagar panchayats depending on size, while villages are governed by gram panchayats.