Presently, Agartala Municipal Corporation is divided into 49 wards and total population stands at 522,000 making it the second largest urban body in the Northeast Region after Guwahati. As of the 2011 Indian census,[3] Agartala city has a total population of 404,004. Total number of literates in the city are 344,711 of which 175,170 are males while 169,541 are females.