 It had a literacy rate of 67.7% in 2001 which increased to a literacy rate of 76.88% in 2011.At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 96.84% of the population in the district spoke Gujarati, 1.25% Hindi, 0.99% Sindhi and 0.59% Urdu as their first language.Junagadh contains the Gir Forest National Park, which is the only home to Asiatic lions.