Bareilly (District)

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Bareilly District
District map
State Uttar Pradesh
Administrative headquarters : Bareilly
Area : 4120 km²
Residents : 4,448,359 (2011)
Population density : 1080 people / km²
Website : www.bareilly.nic.in/

Bareilly is a district in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh .

The area is 4120 km². The administrative seat is the city of Bareilly .

history

The region was part of the Delhi Sultanate before it was conquered by the emerging Mughal Empire . The modern city of Bareilly was founded in 1657 by Mukrand Rai . It later became the capital of the Rohilkhand region before being given to Nawab Vazir of Avadh and then to the British East India Company .

population

The population is 4,448,359 (2011). The population growth rate in the period from 2001 to 2011 was 22.93%, which is very high. Bareilly has a gender ratio of 887 women per 1,000 men. The district has a literacy rate of 58.5% in 2011, an increase of eleven percentage points compared to 2001. Almost 63.3% of the population are Hindus and around 34.5% are Muslims . Other religious groups make up around 1.7% of the total population.

The urbanization rate of the district is approximately 35.3%. The largest agglomeration is Bareilly with 985,752 inhabitants.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census (PDF; 398 kB)
  2. ^ Indian Districts by Population, Sex Ratio, Literacy 2011 Census. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .