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S.No.	Soil Group	Extent (km²)	Distribution (States)
1	Red loamy soils	2,13,271	Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Karala, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa
2	Red Sandy Soils	3,30,590	Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh
3	Laterite Soils	1,30,066	Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Maharashtra, Goa, Assam
4	Red and Yellow Soils	4,03,651	Madhya Pradesh, Orissa
5	Shallow Black Soils	31,532	Maharashtra
6	Medium Black Soils	4,30,383	Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat
7	Deep Black Soils	1,12,060	Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat
8	Mixed Red and Balcak Soils	1,62,255	Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh
9	Coastal Alluvium Soils	54,403	Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Orissa
10	Coastal Sands	4,534	Orissa
11	Deltaic Alluvium Soils	87,045	Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, West Bengal
12	Alluvial Soils Khadar (recent alluvium) Bhangar (old Alluvium)	3,56,720	Uttar pradesh, Punjab, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam
13	Alluvium Soils (highly calcareous)	13,611	North-eastern states, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar
14	Calcareous sierozemic soils	45,080	Punjab
15	Grey Brown Soils	1,01,572	Gujarat, Rajasthan
16	Desert Soils Rhegosolic	1,54,423	Rajasthan
17	Desert Soils Lithosolic
18	Terai Soils	28,919	Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal
19	Brown Hill Soils (over sandstones and shales)	81,242	Uttar Pradesh, Bhutan Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh
20	Sub-montane Soils (Podsolic)	76,695	Uttar Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir
21	Mountain Meadow Soils	59,790	Kashmir including Ladakh
22	Saline and Alkali Soils	17,377	Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
23	Peaty and Saline Peaty Soils	2,720	Kerala
24	Skeletal Soils	79,151	Madhya Pradesh
25	Glaciers and Eternal Snow	29,335	Uttar Pradesh, Kashmir

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