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The following is a list of the largest (in area) and most populous cities in Gujarat, India as per the 2021 census. There are 31 cities in Gujarat with a population over 100,000. There are 31 cities in Gujarat with a population over 100,000.
Rajkot (Hindi: [ˈraːdʒkoːʈ] ⓘ) is the fourth-largest [3] [4] city in the Indian state of Gujarat after Ahmedabad, Vadodara, and Surat, and is in the centre of the Saurashtra region of Gujarat. Rajkot is the 35th-largest metropolitan area in India , with a population of more than 2 million as of 2021. [ 5 ]
Gujarat was a major center of Indian Ocean trade, and their capital at Anhilwara was one of the largest cities in India, with a population estimated at 100,000 in the year 1000. After 1243, the Solankis lost control of Gujarat to their feudatories, of whom the Vaghela chiefs of Dholka came to rule the Kingdom of Gujarat .
As of 2024, with an estimated population of 1.484 billion, India is the world's most populous country. India occupies 2.4% of the world's area and is home to 17.5% of the world's population . [ 2 ] The Indo-Gangetic Plain has one of the world's biggest stretches of fertile not-deep alluvium and are among the most densely populated areas of the ...
The population of Gujarat was 60,439,692 (31,491,260 males and 28,948,432 females) according to the 2011 census data. [1] The population density is 308 persons per square kilometer (800 persons/sq mi), lower than other Indian states.
Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 (per the 2011 population census) makes it the fifth-most populous city in India, [14] and the encompassing urban agglomeration population estimated at 6,357,693 is the seventh-most populous in India. Ahmedabad's population in 2024 is estimated to be 8,854,444. [15]
The western Indian state of Gujarat has 34 districts after several splits of the original 17 districts at the formation of the state in 1960. [2] Kutch is the largest district of Gujarat while Dang is the smallest. Ahmedabad is the most populated district while Dang is the least. There are 252 Talukas (subdivisions of districts) in Gujarat. [3] [4]
As per Government of India census data of 2011, the total number of Urdu speakers in the Republic of India were 62,772,631. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to the census guidelines, "Urdu" does not broadly refer to the Hindustani language , but the literary- register of the macrolanguage, hence accounting Hindi as a separate language.