Population and Settlement Geography Questions and Answers

Answer: D

The district with a sex ratio above 1000 is Dindori.

In the 2011 census, Dindori recorded slightly more than 1,000 females per 1,000 males, one of the few districts of Madhya Pradesh to do so, along with other largely tribal districts of the east such as Balaghat and Mandla. Tribal communities generally have more balanced sex ratios than the population as a whole.

Anuppur, Burhanpur and Indore all recorded fewer than 1,000 females per 1,000 males; Indore, a large city drawing male migrants, is well below that mark. The state as a whole recorded 931.

Answer: C

The most common (most populous) tribe in Madhya Pradesh is the Bheel (Bhil).

According to the 2011 census, the Bhil, including their sub-groups, are the largest Scheduled Tribe in Madhya Pradesh, numbering about six million and concentrated in the western districts of Jhabua, Alirajpur, Dhar, Barwani and Khargone. The Gond are the second largest.

The Gond, the second largest, are the trap. The Korku and Kol are much smaller tribes.

Answer: B

The lowest decadal growth in the 2011 census was recorded by Nagaland.

Nagaland's population fell between 2001 and 2011, a decadal growth of about −0.6 percent, the only state with negative growth. Part of the explanation offered was over-counting in the 2001 census.

Arunachal Pradesh grew by about 26 percent, Madhya Pradesh by about 20 percent and Punjab by about 14 percent, all far higher.

Answer: B

The district with the highest sex ratio in the 2011 census is Balaghat.

Balaghat recorded a sex ratio of about 1,021 females per 1,000 males in 2011, the highest among the districts of Madhya Pradesh and one of the few above 1,000. The state's overall sex ratio was 931.

Mandla also has a high ratio, close to 1,000, which makes it the trap. Dhar and Indore are lower.

Answer: C

The most urbanised district in the 2011 Census was Bhopal.

About 81% of Bhopal district's population lived in urban areas in 2011, the highest share in Madhya Pradesh, ahead of Indore (about 74%).

Gwalior and Jabalpur are large cities, but their districts include large rural areas, so their urban percentages are lower.

The urban share is high in Bhopal district because the capital city holds most of the district's population, while the districts of Gwalior and Jabalpur contain many more villages.

Answer: B

The lowest density in 2011 was in Arunachal Pradesh.

With 17 persons per square km in the 2011 Census, Arunachal Pradesh had the lowest population density of any Indian state.

Mizoram had 52, Meghalaya 132 and Tripura 350 persons per square km, all higher.

Population density is the number of persons per square kilometre, so a large, mountainous and forested state with a small population, like Arunachal Pradesh, has the lowest figure.

Answer: D

The level of urbanisation in 2011 was about 31.15%.

The 2011 Census counted about 377 million people in urban areas out of a total of about 1,211 million (121 crore), so the urban share was a little over 31 percent (the Census reports it as 31.16 percent, up from 27.8 percent in 2001).

Of the options, only 31.15% matches this. 30.15%, 32.15% and 33.15% are each a full point away from the Census figure.

Answer: B

The order from lowest to highest is Anuppur, Betul, Chhindwara, Mandsaur.

Census 2011 decadal growth rates for 2001-2011 are, to the nearest tenth, about 12.3 per cent for Anuppur, 12.9 for Betul, 13.1 for Chhindwara and 13.2 for Mandsaur. The figures I found come from a third-party table of census data and a practice site, which differ in the second decimal but give the same order, and that order is the key's.

The gaps are small, so the other options, which put Mandsaur or Betul out of place, fail on the ranking itself. Anuppur is lowest because it is a tribal, forested district with slow population growth.

Answer: D

The correct order is Kerala, Mizoram, Goa, Tripura.

According to Census 2011, the literacy rates of these states were:

1. Kerala: about 94.0 percent
2. Mizoram: about 91.3 percent
3. Goa: about 88.7 percent
4. Tripura: about 87.2 percent

Every option begins with Kerala, the most literate state, so the question turns on the other three. Options putting Tripura ahead of Mizoram or Goa, or Goa ahead of Mizoram, do not match the census figures.

Answer: B

Statements 1 and 3 are correct, so the answer is 1 and 3 only.

India's Census expresses the sex ratio as the number of females per 1,000 males. In Census 2011 the child sex ratio was adverse (about 918 to 919 girls per 1,000 boys), while the sex ratio among the elderly aged 60 and above was favourable to women, about 1,033, because women live longer.

Statement 2 is wrong: the child sex ratio is calculated for the 0-6 age group, not 0-14. Statement 4 is wrong: the highest overall sex ratio in Census 2011 was in Kerala (1,084), not Tamil Nadu (996).