Which state has the highest density of population in India ?
List of states and union territories of India by population From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Population density map of India.India is a union of twenty-eight states and seven union territories.[1] As of 2008, with an estimated population of 1.13 billion, India is the world’s second most populated country after the People’s Republic of China. India occupies 2.4 percent of the world’s land surface area but is home to 16.9 percent of the world’s population.[2] The Indo-Gangetic plains have one of the world’s biggest stretches of fertile flat-deep alluvium and are among the most densely populated areas of the world. The eastern and western coastal regions of Deccan plateau are also densely populated regions of India. The Thar desert in western Rajasthan is one of the most densely populated deserts in the world. The northern and north-eastern states along the Himalayas contain cold arid deserts with fertile valleys. These states have less population density