Rajasthan is located in the northwestern part of India. It is bounded on the west and northwest by Pakistan, on the north and northeast by the states of Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh, on the east and southeast by the states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, and on the southwest by the state of Gujarat. Geographically it is the largest state in the country with an area of 3,42,239 sq kms of which 66% area is desert. It has the population of 6,86,21,012, sex ratio of 926, literacy rate of 67.06% and population density of 201 per sq km as per the 2011 provisional census.