Western and north-eastern peninsular India, Bangladesh; and from south-west, southern and eastern Myanmar, and southern Annam, south to southern Thailand, Cambodia, and Cochinchina.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Heart-spotted Woodpecker (Hemicircus canente) [XC97390]
by Hans Matheve from vansda national park, India (alarm call)
Heart-spotted Woodpecker (Hemicircus canente) [XC744698]
by Sandeep Chakraborty from Padavayal, Palakkad, Kerala, India (call)
Subspecies
Clinal increase in size from south-west to north-eastern India, but differences negligible. Individual variation fairly marked, but no significant geographical pattern and therefore proposed subspecies cordatus (western India) is unsustainable.