Demographics of Arunachal Pradesh

Demographics Of Arunachal Pradesh

The Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh has a total population of roughly 1.4 million (as of 2011) on an area of 84,000 km2, amounting to a population density of about 17 km-2 (far below the Indian average of 370 km-2). Much of Arunachal Pradesh is forested, and home to many of India's Scheduled Tribes. Such indigenous "tribal groups" account for about two thirds of population, while immigrants, mostly of Bengali/Hindi belt origin, account for a third.

As one of the Seven Sister States of India's remote north-east, it is culturally at least as much part of Southeast Asia as it is of South Asia; ethnolinguistically, it is divided between a Tibeto-Burman and Tai/Singpho/Tangsa areas bordering Burma area bordering Bhutan to the west, the Tani and Mishmi areas in the center and the Naga area to the south, bordering both Burma and Nagaland. In between there are transition zones, such as the Aka/Hruso/Miji/Sherdukpen area, which form cultural "buffers" between the Tibetic Buddhist tribes and the animist Tani hill tribes. In addition, there are isolated peoples scattered throughout the state.