Which of the following states/ union territory has the highest density of population (in 2011)?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Lakshadweep
The densities of 2011 in the appendix table:
Lakshadweep — 2,013 persons per sq km. Like most Union Territories, it has a very high density.
Haryana — 573.
Karnataka — 319.
Arunachal Pradesh — 17, the lowest in the country.
NCERT (2025-26): “Density of Population … The data shown in Appendix (i) give an idea of 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 (Appendix–i).…”
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