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There are 3,961 villages that have a population of 10,000 persons or more. [9] India's 27.8 percent urban population lives in more than 5,100 towns and over 380 urban agglomerations. [10] In the decade of 1991–2001, migration to major cities caused rapid increase in urban population.
Sikkim has 75 Buddhist monasteries, the oldest dating back to the 1700s. [21] Hinduism has been the state's major religion since the arrival of the Nepali speaking Indian Gorkha Hindu population; an estimated 64% per cent of the total population are now adherents of the religion. There exist many Hindu temples.
Vajrayana Buddhism, which accounts for 27.3% of the population, is Sikkim's second-largest, yet most prominent religion. Prior to Sikkim's becoming a part of the Indian Union, Vajrayana Buddhism was the state religion under the Chogyal. Sikkim has 75 Buddhist monasteries, the oldest dating back to the 1700s. [140]
After that census was done irregularly. The first census after independence was 1961, followed by 1971. Since 1980 it is conducted regularly every 10 years. In between, there is also economical census (every 10 years, five years after population census) and agricultural census (three years after population census).
Sikkim – landlocked state of India, the last to give up its monarchy and fully integrate into India, in 1975. With 607,688 inhabitants as of the 2011 census, Sikkim is the least populous state in India and the second-smallest state after Goa in total area, covering approximately 7,096 km2 (2,740 sq mi).
At the time of the 2011 census, what is now Soreng District had a population of 64,760. Soreng District had a sex ratio of 959 females per 1000 males and a literacy rate of 77.68%. 1.91% of the population lived in urban areas. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes made up 2,544 (3.93%) and 25,970 (40.10%) respectively. [3]
The Gangtok subdivision of the East Sikkim district had a population of 281,293, Gangtok has an average literacy rate of 82.17%, higher than the national average of 74%: male literacy is 85.33%, and female literacy is 78.68. [54] About 8% of Gangtok's population live in the nine notified slums and squatter settlements, all on Government land.
The state of Sikkim is the only state in India with a majority ethnic Nepali population. [17] The Sikkim census of 2011 found that Sikkim was the least populated state of India. Sikkim's population according to the 2011 Census was 610,577, and has grown by approximately 100,000 since the last census. [ 18 ]