Bundi district
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Bundi District is a district of the state
States and territories of India
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 of Rajasthan
Rajasthan
Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

 in western India
India
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. The town of Bundi
Bundi
Bundi is a city and a municipality of approximately 88,000 inhabitants in the Hadoti region of Rajasthan state in northwest India. It is of particular architectural note for its ornate forts, palaces, and stepwell reservoirs known as baoris...

 is the district headquarters. It has an area of 5,550 km² and a population of 88,273 (2001 census). It is bordered to the north by Tonk District
Tonk District
Tonk District is a district of the state of Rajasthan in western India. The city of Tonk is the administrative headquarters of the district. The district is bounded on the north by Jaipur district, on the east by Sawai Madhopur district, on the southeast by Kota district, on the south by Bundi...

, to the west by Bhilwara District
Bhilwara district
Bhilwara District is a district of the state of Rajasthan in western India. The town of Bhilwara is the district headquarters.-Geography and demographics:...

 and to the southwest by Chittorgarh District
Chittorgarh district
Chittorgarh District is a district of Rajasthan state in western India. The historic city of Chittorgarh is the administrative headquarters of the district....

.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census
2011 census of India
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 Bundi district has a population
Demographics of India
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 of 1,113,725, roughly equal to the nation of Cyprus
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 or the US state of Rhode Island
Rhode Island
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. This gives it a ranking of 415th in India (out of a total of 640
Districts of India
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). The district has a population density of 193 PD/sqkm . Its population growth rate
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 over the decade 2001-2011 was 15.7 %. Bundi has a sex ratio
Sex ratio
Sex ratio is the ratio of males to females in a population. The primary sex ratio is the ratio at the time of conception, secondary sex ratio is the ratio at time of birth, and tertiary sex ratio is the ratio of mature organisms....

 of 922 females
Women in India
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 for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate
Literacy in India
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of 62.31 %.
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