Previous Year Question

Population Density means the number of people living per unit of land area of a region. It is generally expressed as the number of persons per square kilometre.

Among the South Asian countries given in the question—Sri Lanka, India, Nepal and Pakistan—India had the highest population density.

India has a very large population concentrated within a relatively limited land area. Population concentration is particularly high in the Indo-Gangetic Plain, coastal plains and major urban-industrial regions.

It should be noted that if all South Asian countries are considered, countries such as Bangladesh have a higher population density than India, but Bangladesh is not included among the options in this question.