🗺 State & UT profiles
Puducherry
🗺 Geography
🌿 Protected areas and natural heritage
None of the reserves and sites on our Climate & life page is in this state.
🏭 Resources and economy
NCERT does not name this state for a crop, mineral, industry or major port.
📜 History
👑 Who held this land
Kingdoms, empires and cultures whose territory, as drawn on our map, covered a large part of today’s Puducherry, or that were based here. Extents are approximate, so treat this as a guide to who held the region — not as exact borders.
📅 Events in Puducherry
- c. 50 CE Roman trade at Arikamedu and Muziris · Arikamedu
- 1954 French settlements transferred to India · Puducherry
🎨 People and culture
👥 2011 Census
- Population
- 1,244,464
- Share of India’s population (%)
- 0.1
- Density (per sq km)
- 2,598
- Decadal growth 2001–11 (%)
- 27.72
- Urban population (%)
- 68.31
- Work participation rate (%)
- 35.7
Geography: features are those on our Geography map that cover a good part of the state (or that NCERT places in it); hazards, reserves, crops, minerals, industries and ports are where NCERT, UNESCO or the Ramsar list name or place them. Census figures are for 2011, as NCERT prints them.
How this is made: nothing here is new — it is YugMap’s own map data sorted by today’s states. A kingdom is listed if its territory on our map covered at least 40% of the state at some point, or if its centre or capital lies here; events and places are listed where their map point falls inside the state. State outlines follow India’s official map.