Abstract
Urbanization is a global phenomenon; it is nearly a universally accepted truth that economic progress and the amount of urbanization are directly linked to one another. Purba Medinipur district includes 25 urban centres with a total population of 592714 people, accounting for 9.2 percent of the district's total population. To investigate the trends and patterns in urbanization levels in the Purba Medinipur district. The entire investigation was carried out with the assistance of a secondary data source. In the Arc-GIS platform, the cartographic approach is used, and maps are created. According to the ndings, Haldia municipality is the district's main urban centre, with an 18.40 percent population. The overall male literacy rate in Purba Medinipur is 92.32 percent, while the female literacy rate is 81.32 percent, with a discrepancy of roughly 11 percent; 92.90 percent of literate males are found in urban regions, while the ratio drops to 83.95 percent in urban females. Thus, proper gender inequality in terms of literacy rate between urban and rural Purba Medinipur has been discovered.
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