States and Union Territories of India

Every state and union territory the Census of India 2011 counted, with its population, sex ratio, literacy and area. Open one to reach its districts, then its tehsils, then any of the 590,364 villages recorded inside it.

Census Data of India

As per the data provided by Census of India 2011, total population of India was 1,210,854,977. Male and Female population of India was 623,270,258 and 587,584,719 respectively which further can be divided as 377,106,125 urban population and 833,748,852 rural population. Total no of literates in India counted are 763,638,812 including 434,763,622 males and 328,875,190 females.

Sex ratio of India's population works out to 943 females for every 1000 males, calculated from the state figures listed below. The child sex ratio published by the Census for 2011, covering children aged 0 to 6, was 914 girls per 1000 boys. That one is quoted from the Census release rather than derived here, because age wise counts are not stored on this site. Religions recorded include Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism.

The list below covers all 36 entries. Opening one gives that state's own figures and the districts under it.

How to find a village

The data is arranged the same way the census itself is organised. Pick a state below and you get its districts. Open a district and you get the tehsils inside it, which some states call a taluka, mandal or block. Open a tehsil and you reach the full list of its villages.

A village page carries its total population with the male and female split, the sex ratio worked out from those counts, the area of the village and its pincode. Literacy and child sex ratio are published at tehsil level and above, so you will find them on the tehsil, district and state pages. If you already know the village name, the search box at the top of the page is quicker than working down the list.

Why the list has 36 entries

These are the states and union territories as they stood when the 2011 census was taken, so the list will not match a present day map. Three things have changed since. Jammu and Kashmir was reorganised in 2019 into two union territories, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, so Ladakh has no separate 2011 record. Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu were merged into a single union territory in 2020, but the census counted them separately. Telangana, formed in 2014, does appear here because its figures were derived from the districts that went on to form it.

We have kept the 2011 boundaries rather than redrawing them, because changing the groupings would mean changing the published population counts, and those counts are the reason this data is useful in the first place.

List of states in India

Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Population

380,581

Males

202,871

Females

177,710

Sex Ratio

876

Child Sex Ratio

968

Area:

8,249 Km²

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Andhra Pradesh

Population

84,580,777

Males

42,442,146

Females

42,138,631

Sex Ratio

993

Child Sex Ratio

939

Area:

275,045 Km²

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Arunachal Pradesh

Population

1,383,727

Males

713,912

Females

669,815

Sex Ratio

938

Child Sex Ratio

972

Area:

83,743 Km²

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Assam

Population

31,205,576

Males

15,939,443

Females

15,266,133

Sex Ratio

958

Child Sex Ratio

962

Area:

78,438 Km²

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Bihar

Population

104,099,452

Males

54,278,157

Females

49,821,295

Sex Ratio

918

Child Sex Ratio

935

Area:

94,163 Km²

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Chandigarh

Population

1,055,450

Males

580,663

Females

474,787

Sex Ratio

818

Child Sex Ratio

880

Area:

114 Km²

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Chhattisgarh

Population

25,545,198

Males

12,832,895

Females

12,712,303

Sex Ratio

991

Child Sex Ratio

969

Area:

135,192 Km²

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Dadra and Nagar Haveli

Population

343,709

Males

193,760

Females

149,949

Sex Ratio

774

Child Sex Ratio

926

Area:

491 Km²

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Daman and Diu

Population

243,247

Males

150,301

Females

92,946

Sex Ratio

618

Child Sex Ratio

904

Area:

111 Km²

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Delhi

Population

16,787,941

Males

8,987,326

Females

7,800,615

Sex Ratio

868

Child Sex Ratio

871

Area:

1,483 Km²

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Goa

Population

1,458,545

Males

739,140

Females

719,405

Sex Ratio

973

Child Sex Ratio

942

Area:

3,702 Km²

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Gujarat

Population

60,439,692

Males

31,491,260

Females

28,948,432

Sex Ratio

919

Child Sex Ratio

890

Area:

196,244 Km²

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Haryana

Population

25,351,462

Males

13,494,734

Females

11,856,728

Sex Ratio

879

Child Sex Ratio

834

Area:

44,212 Km²

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Himachal Pradesh

Population

6,864,602

Males

3,481,873

Females

3,382,729

Sex Ratio

972

Child Sex Ratio

909

Area:

55,673 Km²

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Jammu and Kashmir

Population

12,541,302

Males

6,640,662

Females

5,900,640

Sex Ratio

889

Child Sex Ratio

862

Area:

222,236 Km²

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Jharkhand

Population

32,988,134

Males

16,930,315

Females

16,057,819

Sex Ratio

948

Child Sex Ratio

948

Area:

79,716 Km²

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Karnataka

Population

61,095,297

Males

30,966,657

Females

30,128,640

Sex Ratio

973

Child Sex Ratio

948

Area:

191,791 Km²

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Kerala

Population

33,406,061

Males

16,027,412

Females

17,378,649

Sex Ratio

1,084

Child Sex Ratio

964

Area:

38,852 Km²

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Lakshadweep

Population

64,473

Males

33,123

Females

31,350

Sex Ratio

946

Child Sex Ratio

911

Area:

30 Km²

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Madhya Pradesh

Population

72,626,809

Males

37,612,306

Females

35,014,503

Sex Ratio

931

Child Sex Ratio

918

Area:

308,252 Km²

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Maharashtra

Population

112,374,333

Males

58,243,056

Females

54,131,277

Sex Ratio

929

Child Sex Ratio

894

Area:

307,713 Km²

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Manipur

Population

2,855,794

Males

1,438,586

Females

1,417,208

Sex Ratio

985

Child Sex Ratio

930

Area:

22,327 Km²

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Meghalaya

Population

2,966,889

Males

1,491,832

Females

1,475,057

Sex Ratio

989

Child Sex Ratio

970

Area:

22,429 Km²

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Mizoram

Population

1,097,206

Males

555,339

Females

541,867

Sex Ratio

976

Child Sex Ratio

970

Area:

21,081 Km²

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Nagaland

Population

1,978,502

Males

1,024,649

Females

953,853

Sex Ratio

931

Child Sex Ratio

943

Area:

16,579 Km²

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Odisha

Population

41,974,218

Males

21,212,136

Females

20,762,082

Sex Ratio

979

Child Sex Ratio

941

Area:

155,707 Km²

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Puducherry

Population

1,247,953

Males

612,511

Females

635,442

Sex Ratio

1,037

Child Sex Ratio

967

Area:

490 Km²

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Punjab

Population

27,743,338

Males

14,639,465

Females

13,103,873

Sex Ratio

895

Child Sex Ratio

846

Area:

50,362 Km²

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Rajasthan

Population

68,548,437

Males

35,550,997

Females

32,997,440

Sex Ratio

928

Child Sex Ratio

888

Area:

342,239 Km²

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Sikkim

Population

610,577

Males

323,070

Females

287,507

Sex Ratio

890

Child Sex Ratio

957

Area:

7,096 Km²

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Tamil Nadu

Population

72,147,030

Males

36,137,975

Females

36,009,055

Sex Ratio

996

Child Sex Ratio

943

Area:

130,060 Km²

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Telangana

Population

35,193,978

Males

17,704,078

Females

17,489,900

Sex Ratio

988

Child Sex Ratio

932

Area:

112,077 Km²

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Tripura

Population

3,673,917

Males

1,874,376

Females

1,799,541

Sex Ratio

960

Child Sex Ratio

957

Area:

10,486 Km²

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Uttar Pradesh

Population

199,812,341

Males

104,480,510

Females

95,331,831

Sex Ratio

912

Child Sex Ratio

902

Area:

240,928 Km²

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Uttarakhand

Population

10,086,292

Males

5,137,773

Females

4,948,519

Sex Ratio

963

Child Sex Ratio

890

Area:

53,483 Km²

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West Bengal

Population

91,276,115

Males

46,809,027

Females

44,467,088

Sex Ratio

950

Child Sex Ratio

956

Area:

88,752 Km²

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Population, literacy, sex ratio and area, side by side, for the twelve most populous states and union territories.

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Questions about this data

India today has 28 states and 8 union territories. The list on this page has 36 entries because it follows the 2011 census, when Jammu and Kashmir was a single state, Ladakh did not exist separately, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu were two territories.

Ladakh was created in 2019 from districts of Jammu and Kashmir, eight years after the census. Its 2011 figures sit inside the Jammu and Kashmir record, in the Leh and Kargil districts.

Telangana was carved out of Andhra Pradesh in 2014, but it is made up of districts that were counted individually in 2011. Its figures were rebuilt by adding up those districts, which is why it can be shown separately while Ladakh cannot.

A state has its own elected government with wide powers of its own. A union territory is administered by the central government, though a few of them, such as Delhi and Puducherry, do have their own legislature with limited powers.

A tehsil is the administrative unit between a district and a village. Different states use different names for it, including taluka, mandal, block and circle, but the level in the hierarchy is the same.

Uttar Pradesh, with just under 200 million people, which made it the most populous state in the country and larger than most nations. Maharashtra and Bihar followed it.

Uttar Pradesh, which had 71 districts at the time of the 2011 census. Several states have created new districts since then by splitting existing ones, so present day counts are higher.

Sex ratio is the number of females for every 1000 males. A figure below 1000 means there are fewer women than men in that population. Child sex ratio uses the same measure but counts only children aged 0 to 6.

The census treats a place as urban if it has a municipality or similar local body, or if it meets thresholds for population, density and the share of male workers outside agriculture. Everything else is counted as rural.

Not at village level. The census due in 2021 was postponed, so 2011 remains the most recent complete count published for every village in the country.

Yes. The underlying numbers are published by the Census of India and are public. We would suggest citing the Census of India 2011 as the source rather than this site, and checking any figure that matters against the official release.