Explain with examples any five factors that affect the population distribution in India.

Explanation

Five factors that affect population distribution in India are:
(i) Climate along with terrain and availability of water largely determines the pattern of the population distribution. Example: The North Indian Plains, deltas and Coastal Plains have higher proportion of population than the interior districts of southern and central Indian States, Himalayas, some of the north eastern and the western states.
(ii) Development of irrigation (Rajasthan). Availability of mineral and energy resources (Jharkhand).

(iii) Development of transport network (Peninsular States) have resulted in moderate to high concentration of population in areas which were previously very thinly populated.
(iv) Evolution of settled agriculture and agricultural development: pattern of human settlement, development of transport network, industrialisation and urbanisation.
(v) The urban regions of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Pune, Ahmedabad, Chennai and Jaipur have high concentration of population due to industrial development and urbanisation drawing a large numbers of rural-urban migrants.