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| Capital |
Gandhinagar |
| Area (sq km) |
1,96, 000 |
| Population (Census 2001, million) |
50.6 |
| Literacy Rate (%) |
69 |
| Sex Ratio (per 1000 males) |
921 |
| Length of Coastline (km) |
1,600 (the longest in India) |
| GSDP 2006-07 (US$ billion) |
60.60 |
| GSDP over 10 years (%) |
12.4 |
| National Highway Length (km) |
1,949 |
| Domestic Airports |
Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Jamnagar, Bhavnagar, Bhuj, Kandla, Keshod, Porbandar, Rajkot |
| International Airport |
Sardar Vallabhbhai International Airport at Ahmedabad |
| Major Ports |
Kandla, Dahej, Hazira, Mundra |
| Key Industries |
Chemicals
Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
Gems and Jewellery
Mines & Minerals
Textiles
Agro- based
Light and heavy engineering |
| Monthly Per Capita |
22.4484 |
| Expenditure (US$) |
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| Market Potential Value |
7.8 % share in India/td>
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Key Points
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Gujarat has the largest chemical industry in the country.
- It is a leading producer of cement and soda ash.
- It has the largest diamond processing industry in the country.
- The state has vast mineral resources like bauxite, lignite and natural gas.
- Gujarat is the leading producer of cotton, castor seeds and psyllium husk.
- Gujarat has the world's largest industrial estate and grassroots refinery located at Jamnagar.
- Gujarat is home to Kandla, Asia's first and largest multi-product special economic zone. (SEZ). It is also India's largest port with a capacity of 39 MMTPA (million metric tonnes per annum).
- India's largest Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminals are in the process of being set up at Dahej port.
- Gujarat was the first state to privatize the setting up of infrastructure projects and the only state so far in the country where ports are being built on the Build-Own-Operate-Transfer (BOOT) scheme.
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Content Source: www.ibef.org
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Andhra Pradesh
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