Himachal Pradesh is one of 29 states of India. Himachal Pradesh covers an area of 21,495 sq mi i.e. 55,673 km2. As per area, state ranks 18th in India. There are total 12 districts which comes under Himachal Pradesh. Further these 12 districts are devided into 55 sub-divisions 77 blocks 35 towns, 3,243 Panchayats, 77 panchayat smities, 12 zila parishad, 49 urban local bodies, 1 nagar nigam 25 nagar parishads, 23 Nagar Panchayats, 20,690 census villages and 17,495 inhabited villages.
There are total 3,866 health intitutions are there in Himachal Pradesh and 17,495 educational institutions are there in state. If we talk about motrable road, total 33,722 km motrable road is there in the state with 8 national highways.
Total population of the state is 68,64,602 in this male population count is 34,81,873 whereas female population count is 33,82,729. Population density of Himachal Pradesh is 123 and sex ratio here is 972. State's rural population is 61,76,050 and urban population is 6,88,552. In total population count of 68,64,602 scheduled caste population count is 17,29,252 and scheduled tribe population count is 3,92,126.
Himachal Pradesh's population rank in india is 21 & density is 123/km2 (320/sq mi). People here in Himachal Pradesh speaks in Hindi, Pahari, Dogri, Punjabi and 32 other languages.
Himachal Pradesh's overall litracy rate is 83.78%. In this male litracy rate is 90.83% and female litracy rate 76.60%.
There are five river baisns available in Himachal Pradesh these River basins are Himurja, Ravi, Satluj, Beas and Yamuna. Himachal Pradesh's harness potential is aprox 9,000 MW. This state produces 1579,001 tonnes of food grain, and 1,027,012 tonnes of fruits and 900,111 tonnes of vegetables.
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