States of India by Gujarati speakers

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