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India, place by place.
States, cities, districts, towns and villages.
Explore a current state profile or a historical district, urban unit or village. Each profile keeps its population figure, reference period and boundary definition together.
States & union territories
Official 2026 projections, 2025 digital-access surveys, selected-state employment evidence, Census links and the Aadhaar perspective.
Explore →30Major cities
The largest units in a consistent final Census 2011 urban table. Every page names its geographic unit.
Explore →640Historical districts
Every district in the national Census 2011 PCA, with households, children, literacy, rural/urban figures and work.
Explore →7,933Town codes
Unique source town codes in the imported Census 2011 workbook, including clearly identified outgrowths and geographic components.
Explore →334Village records · Goa
All rural-village records in the two Goa district files. Historical inhabited and uninhabited units are retained.
Explore →35Historical states & UTs
Census-era boundaries, detailed demographic tables and religious composition alongside the original reference.
Explore →A state, a city and a market area are different units.
Choose the geographic area that matches your question. A state projection can help set a regional planning baseline. A Census 2011 urban agglomeration describes a historical urban footprint. A shop’s service area needs a catchment definition of its own.
Talukas, villages and wards
Browse the Census 2011 subdistrict directory by state, or open the complete historical Thane batch.