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India has 641,000 inhabited villages and 72.2 percent of the total population reside in these rural areas. [8] Of them 145,000 villages have population size of 500–999 persons; 130,000 villages have population size of 1000–1999 and 128,000 villages have population size of 200–499.
India occupies 2.41% of the world's land area but supports over 18% of the world's population. At the 2001 census 72.2% of the population [55] lived in about 638,000 villages [56] and the remaining 27.8% [55] lived in more than 5,100 towns and over 380 urban agglomerations. [57]
According to the 2011 census of India, 69% of Indians (around 833 million people) live in villages. [12] As per 2011 census of India, there are a total of 649,481 villages in India [13].The size of these villages varies considerably. 236,004 Indian villages have a population of fewer than 500, while 3,976 villages have a population of 10,000 ...
India has 641,000 inhabited villages and 72.2 percent of the total population reside in these rural areas. [5] Of them 145,000 villages have population size of 500–999 persons; 130,000 villages have population size of 1000–1999 and 128,000 villages have population size of 200–499.
The administrative divisions of India are subnational administrative units of India; they are composed of a nested hierarchy of administrative divisions.. Indian states and territories frequently use different local titles for the same level of subdivision (e.g., the mandals of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana correspond to tehsils of Uttar Pradesh and other Hindi-speaking states but to talukas of ...
A total of 2.7 million officials visited households in 7,935 towns and 600,000 villages, classifying the population according to gender, religion, education and occupation. [3] The cost of the exercise was approximately ₹ 2,200 crore (US$260 million) [ 4 ] – this comes to less than US$0.50 per person, well below the estimated world average ...
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 ...
This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. A. Lists of villages in Andhra Pradesh (3 P) B. ... Pages in category "Lists of villages in India"