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Q.Explain the meaning of population density and state India's density figure as per the 2011 Census.

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Population density is the average number of persons living per unit of land area,

calculated as:

Density=Total PopulationTotal Land Area\text{Density} = \dfrac{\text{Total Population}}{\text{Total Land Area}}

As per the 2011 Census, India's population density was about 382 persons per square kilometre — among the higher densities of any large country in the world, and a figure that

has risen steadily with every Census since independence. Density is not uniform across the

country; fertile river-plain and coastal states and urban agglomerations have much higher

density than mountainous, arid, or forested regions.

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Population density = total population ÷ total land area, expressed as persons per sq. km.;

India's 2011 Census density was about 382 persons per sq. km.

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