Given below is a case study. Read the same and answer the following five questions given after the case study carefully. (Q-1)
Density of population, is expressed as number of persons per unit area. It helps in getting a better understanding of the spatial distribution of population in relation to land. The density of population in India (2011) is 382 persons per sq km. There has been a steady increase of more than 200 persons per sq km over the last 50 years as the density of population increased from 117 persons/ sq km in 1951 to 382 persons/sq km in 2011.
The spatial variation of population densities in the country which ranges from as low as 17 persons per sq km in Arunachal Pradesh to 11,297 persons in the National Capital Territory of Delhi. Among the northern Indian States, Bihar (1102), West Bengal (1029) and and Uttar Pradesh (828) have higher densities, while Kerala (859) and Tamil Nadu (555) have higher densities among the peninsular Indian states. States like Assam, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Jharkhand, Odisha have moderate densities. The hill states of the Himalayan region and North eastern states of India (excluding Assam) have relatively low densities while the Union Territories (excluding Andaman and Nicobar islands) have very high densities of population.
The density of population, as discussed in the earlier paragraph, is a crude measure of human and land relationship. To get a better insight into the human-land ratio in terms of pressure of population on total cultivable land, the physiological and the agricultural densities should be found out which are significant for a country like India having a large agricultural population.

Which of the following states in India has the highest density in India?

Assam

The correct answer is Option 4: Assam

It is mentioned in the paragraph that "The hill states of the Himalayan region and North eastern states of India (excluding Assam) have relatively low densities".

Thus, it can be clearly inferred from here that the population density of Assam is more than that of Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. One of the reasons for high density in Assam is that a large area is plain area which is suitable for habitation which is not the case in case of other North Eastern and Himalayan states.

Uttarakhand 189

Sikkim  86

Himachal 123

Assam 398