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Demography of Chennai

Chennai is a huge city. Around 40 lakhs people reside in this metropolitan city of the country. The natives of Chennai are referred to as Chennaiites. The literacy rate is quite high hovering around 80 per cent. Some even claim that the literacy rate is higher than that of the national average of around 64 per cent. This city has also the biggest concentration of slum dwellers.

As per the demography of Chennai is concerned, Hindus constitute the chunk of the population, while the Muslims, Sikhs, Jains and Christians are the other major religious groups. Most of the residents are Tamils though there is good percentage of domiciled population dwelling in the capital city of Tamil Nadu. Local language, which is mostly spoken is Tamil. English is widely spoken especially in professional circles of the city.



To throw light about Chennai’s demography, Tamil spoken in Chennai bears the resemblance from English, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi and Urdu. There are also good numbers of Malaylee and Telugu population reside in Chennai. The population density of the city is around 24,418 per square kilometer while the overall the population density is around 5,847 square kilometer. Among the migrant population there are around 74.5 per cent from other parts of the state, around 23.8 per cent from other parts of the country and the rest 1.7 per cent from out side the country.

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