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) [XC659317]
by Sathyan Meppayur from Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary , North Goa, Goa, India (song)
Heart-spotted Woodpecker (Hemicircus canente) [XC620807]
by Craig Robson from C\u00e1t Ti\u00ean National Park, Vietnam (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.