Bathinda (district)

Bathinda district
State	Punjab
Administrative headquarters :	Bathinda
Area :	2683 km²
Residents :	2,490,656 (2011)
Population density :	928 inhabitants / km²
Website :	bathinda.nic.in

Bathinda Fort

Bathinda is a district in the northern Indian state of Punjab .

The area is 2683 km². The administrative seat is the city of Bathinda .

history

Bathinda District was established in 1948 with the establishment of the Patiala and East Punjab States Union . It was based in Faridkot , which was moved to Bathinda in 1952.

population

The population is 2,490,656 (2011). The population growth rate in the period from 2001 to 2011 was 15.47%. Amritsar has a gender ratio of 922 women per 1000 men and thus a male surplus typical for India. The district has a literacy rate of 76.27% in 2011, an increase of almost 6 percentage points compared to 2001. The literacy rate is thus above the national average. Almost 70.9% of the population are Sikhs , 27.4% are Hindus , 1.2% are Muslims , 0.2% are Christians , 0.1% are Jainas and 0.2% did not indicate any religious affiliation.

Almost 36% of the population live in cities. The largest city is Bathinda with 285,788 inhabitants.

economy

Bathinda is part of the Punjab cotton belt.

Web links

Commons : Bathinda District  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• District map

Individual evidence

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