States of India by Gujarati speakers
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Gujarati is the official language and the lingua franca of the Indian state of Gujarat as well as the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
Gujarati, along with Meitei (alias Manipuri), hold the third place among the fastest growing languages of India, following Hindi (first place) and Kashmiri language (second place), according to the 2011 census of India.[1][2][3][4]
List
This is a list of States and Union Territories of India by speakers of Gujarati as of census 2001. Gross population figures are available online.
| Rank | State | Gujarati speakers-2011 | percentage |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | India | 55,492,554 | 4.58% (Sixth most spoken in India) |
| 1 | Gujarat | 51,958,730 | 85.97 |
| 2 | Maharashtra | 2,371,743 | 2.11 |
| 3 | Tamil Nadu | 275,023 | |
| 4 | Madhya Pradesh | 187,211 | |
| 5 | Daman and Diu | 123,648 | 50.83 |
| 6 | Karnataka | 114,616 | |
| 7 | Rajasthan | 67,490 | |
| 8 | Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 73,831 | 21.48 |
| 9 | West Bengal | 41,371 | |
| 10 | Andhra Pradesh | 58,946 | |
| 11 | Delhi | 40,613 | |
| 12 | Chhattisgarh | 39,116 | |
| 13 | Kerala | 4,710 | |
| 14 | Jharkhand | 22,109 | |
| 15 | Orissa | 14,856 | |
| 16 | Goa | 6,846 | |
| 17 | Assam | 7,660 | |
| 18 | Punjab | 13,531 | |
| 19 | Haryana | 7,519 | |
| 20 | Jammu and Kashmir | 19,261 | |
| 21 | Chandigarh | 1,573 | |
| 22 | Himachal Pradesh | 10,012 | |
| 23 | Uttarakhand | 3,921 | |
| 24 | Tripura | 1,384 | |
| 25 | Puducherry | 1,428 | |
| 26 | Nagaland | 277 | |
| 27 | Arunachal Pradesh | 362 | |
| 28 | Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 241 | |
| 29 | Meghalaya | 343 | |
| 30 | Manipur | 164 | |
| 31 | Lakshadweep | 24 | |
| 32 | Sikkim | 197 | |
| 33 | Mizoram | 59 | |
| 34 | Bihar | 8,297 | |
| 35 | Uttar Pradesh | 15,442 |