 Surat has a sex ratio of 788 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 86.5%.At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 60.06% of the population in the district spoke Gujarati, 22.90% Hindi, 8.03% Marathi, 2.60% Odia, 2.47% Urdu, 1.80% Bhili and 0.58% Telugu as their first language.Places of tourist interest in Surat are the old fort build by Muhammad- Bin- Tughlaq, the Unai hot spring, the beautiful beaches of Ubharat and Tithal, the villages of Bardoli and Dandi where Gandhiji started Satyagraha movement and Dandi march respectively.