[5] According to the 2011 census Nagpur district had a population of 4,653,570,[8] roughly equal to the nation of Ireland[9] or the US state of South Carolina.

[8] The district has a population density of 470 inhabitants per square kilometre (1,200/sq mi) .

[8] Nagpur has a sex ratio of 948 females for every 1000 males,[8] and a literacy rate of 89.52%.

It is a transit terminal for trains that connect the country lengthwise and breadthwise, especially trains connecting India's major metropolises, Mumbai to Howrah-Kolkata, Delhi and Jammu to Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Kanyakumari in the South, as well as western cities such as Pune and Ahmedabad.

Nagpur is at the junction of Asian HigLanka and AH46 connecting Kharagpur to Dhule.

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport in Sonegaon, Nagpur, is a domestic and international airport, which connects Nagpur to Mumbai, Delhi, Sharjah, Dubai and Muscat via Doha .