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Its population, as per the 2011 Census, is 1,394,467. Puducherry is the smallest union territory in terms of sea coastline with 30.6 km length. Some of Puducherry's regions are themselves amalgamations of non-contiguous enclaves, often called "pockets" in India. The Puducherry region is made of 11 such pockets, some of which are very small and ...
The 2011 census report on bilingualism and trilingualism, which provides data on the two languages in order of preference in which a person is proficient other than the mother tongue, was released in September 2018. [76] [77] [78] The number of bilingual speakers in India is 314.9 million, which is 26% of the population in 2011.
English: A choropleth map of the percentage of people in India by district who reported a Hindi-family language (as defined by the Government of India) as their mother tongue. Data from the 2011 Indian Census. These fall under Category 6 on the Language Census data.
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Over 48 per cent of the Indian rural population is female. [66] 44.72 crore Indians are non-literate, more than a third of its 121.08 crore population. [67] Transgender people comprise 0.1% of India's rural population. The Andaman and Nicobar islands, West Bengal, Gujarat, Odisha and Mizoram have the highest proportions of transgender people.
The Puducherry District, also known by its former name Pondicherry district, is one of the four districts of the union territory of Puducherry in South India.The district occupies an area of 290 square kilometres (110 sq mi), [2] spread over 12 non-contiguous enclaves lying on or near the Bay of Bengal within a compact area in the state of Tamil Nadu.
Various attempts have been made, under the British Raj and since, to classify the population of India according to a racial typology. After independence, in pursuance of the government's policy to discourage distinctions between communities based on race, the 1951 Census of India did away with racial classifications. Today, the national Census ...
Census of India (2011) states the following criteria in defining towns. They are: Statutory Town (ST): All places with a municipality, corporation, cantonment board, or notified town area committee, etc. Census Town (CT): Those which have a population greater than 5000. Other definitions include percentage of non-agriculture working population ...