Buxar (district)

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Buxar district
District map
State Bihar
Administrative headquarters : Buxar
Area : 1703 km²
Residents : 1,706,352 (2011)
Population density : 1002 inhabitants / km²
Website : buxar.bih.nic.in/

Buxar is a district in the Indian state of Bihar .

The area is 1703 km². The administrative seat is the city of Buxar .

population

The population is 1,706,352 (2011). The population growth rate in the period from 2001 to 2011 was 21.39% and was therefore very high. Buxar has a gender ratio of 922 women per 1000 men and thus a male surplus that is usual for India. The district has a literacy rate of 70.14% in 2011, an increase of almost 14 percentage points compared to 2001. This means that literacy is slightly below the national average, but above that of Bihar. Almost 93% of the population are Hindus and around 6% are Muslim .

Almost 9.6% of the population live in cities. The largest city is Buxar with 102,861 inhabitants.

economy

According to official statistics, the district of Buxar is one of the 250 most backward districts in India, which is divided into a total of 640 districts.

Web links

Individual evidence

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