India's 28 states and 8 Union Territories, colored by what the 2011 census counted. Pick a measure, then tap a state or territory for its profile. Use the + and − buttons, or pinch, to zoom (Ctrl or ⌘ with the scroll wheel on a computer). The small ones, such as Delhi and Lakshadweep, get a dot so they are easy to hit.
Census figures. Every population, sex-ratio, literacy, urban, caste and household number is worked out from the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner's Primary Census Abstract for India, states and districts, 2011 (file DDW_PCA0000_2011_Indiastatedist.xlsx). In that file, the 36 units add up exactly to the India total of 1,210,854,977 people.
How each measure is defined. Sex ratio is women per 1,000 men. Child sex ratio is the same for ages 0 to 6. Literacy is literates divided by the population aged 7 and over. Urban share is the urban population divided by the total. Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe shares are of the total population. Density is population divided by area, using the areas below, so it can differ by a person or two from the census's own printed figure.
The literacy number for India. The file gives 72.98% for the whole country. Wikipedia and many other pages quote 74.04%, which does not match this file. It is probably an earlier provisional figure, but I could not confirm that. The state figures here match the file.
Today's map, 2011's counts. The census counted Andhra Pradesh and Telangana as one state, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh as one state, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu as two Union Territories. For those five units, this page adds up or subtracts the district rows in the same file. Each is marked in its profile.
Areas, dates, languages, capitals. Areas, the dates each unit gained its present status, and official languages are from Wikipedia's States and union territories of India and each unit's own article. Language status differs between Union and state law and between Wikipedia's pages, so treat it as a guide. Capitals match the Rashtra plate.
Boundaries. State and Union Territory outlines are Natural Earth's 1:10m admin-1 layer, public domain. The country outline is the India-perspective version of admin-0. The hatched area is inside that outline but is not part of any state in Natural Earth's state layer. It is the part of the region administered by Pakistan and China, which India claims. The 2011 census did not count it, so it has no figures.
Not here yet. Districts, religion, mother tongues, the health survey (NFHS-6) and change since 2001.
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