Vadodara (district)

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Vadodara district
District map
State Gujarat
Administrative headquarters : Vadodara
Area : 7,546 km²
Residents : 4,165,626 (2011)
Population density : 552.03 inhabitants / km²

Vadodara is a district in the western Indian state of Gujarat .

The area is 7,546 km². The administrative seat is the city of the same name, Vadodara . In 2013, the Chhota Udaipur district was spun off from Vadodara.

history

The district was once the center of the princely state of Baroda .

population

The population is 4,165,626 (2011). The population growth rate in the period from 2001 to 2011 was 14.38%. Vadodara has a gender ratio of 934 women per 1000 men. It had a literacy rate of 78.92% in 2011, an increase of eight percentage points compared to 2001. Almost 90% of the population are Hindus and around 9% are Muslims .

The urbanization rate of the district is around 50%. 1.8 million people live in the fast growing agglomeration of the city of Vadodara.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census (PDF; 398 kB)
  2. ^ Indian Districts by Population, Sex Ratio, Literacy 2011 Census. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .