Public Transport Planning and Management in Developing Countries

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Public Transport Planning and Management in Developing Countries

Chapter 2

Demography and Settlement Patterns

2.1 Introduction

India is a country located in South Asia that is home to the 2nd largest population in

the world (behind China) estimated at 1.2 billion as of the year 2011. India is the largest

democracy in the world, its official form of government being a federal constitutional repub-

lic. It also has the 7th largest geographical area in the world at 3,287,263 sq.km. It became

an independent nation on August 15, 1947 by gaining freedom from the British Empire

that was won by a peaceful resistance ...