Chhindwara (District)
Chhindwara District | |
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State | Madhya Pradesh |
Administrative headquarters : | Chhindwara |
Area : | 11,815 km² |
Residents : | 2,090,922 (2011) |
Population density : | 177 people / km² |
Website : | www.chhindwara.in |
Chhindwara is a district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh .
The area is 11,815 km². The administrative seat is the city of Chhindwara .
population
The population in 2011 was 2,090,922. The population growth rate in the period from 2001 to 2011 was 13.07% and was therefore very high. Chhindwara has a gender ratio of 934 women per 1000 men and thus a male surplus typical for India. The district had a literacy rate of 71.16% in 2011 , an increase of almost 6 percentage points compared to 2001. The literacy rate is thus slightly above the average for Madhya Pradesh. Almost 92% of the population are Hindus and around 2% are Muslims . Buddhists make up 1.2% of the population. 13% of the population are children under 6 years of age.
Almost 24.2% of the population live in cities. The largest city is Chhindwara with 138,291 inhabitants.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2011 census (PDF; 398 kB)
- ^ Indian Districts by Population, Sex Ratio, Literacy 2011 Census. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .
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