[2] According to the 2011 census, Mandi district has a population of 999,777[2] roughly equal to the nation of Fiji[4] or the US state of Montana.

[2] The district has a population density of 253 inhabitants per square kilometre (660/sq mi).

[2] Mandi has a sex ratio of 1012 females for every 1000 males[2] and a literacy rate of 82.81%.

[2] Languages of Mandi district (2011)[13] At the 2011 census, 59.11% of the population in the district identified their first language as Mandeali, 33.32% opted for Pahari (a term broadly applicable to most Indo-Aryan languages of Himachal and Uttarakhand), while 4.1% chose Hindi, 0.66% – Punjabi and 0.47% – Kangri.

It has thick deodar forests, sprawling apple orchards, and springs.