Hoshiarpur (District)

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Hoshiarpur District
District map
State Punjab
Administrative headquarters : Hoshiarpur
Area : 3386 km²
Residents : 1,586,625 (2011)
Population density : 469 inhabitants / km²
Website : hoshiarpur.nic.in
Farmer from a village

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

The area is 3386 km². The administrative seat is the city of Hoshiarpur .

population

The population is 1,586,625 (2011). The population growth rate in the period from 2001 to 2011 was 7.11%. Hoshiarpur has a gender ratio of 961 women per 1000 men and thus a male surplus typical for India. The district has a literacy rate of 84.59% in 2011, an increase of almost 3.6 percentage points compared to 2001. The literacy rate is thus above the regional and national average. Almost 63.1% of the population are Hindus , 33.9% are Sikhs , 1.5% are Muslims , 0.9% are Christians , 0.2% are Buddhists , 0.1% are Jainas and 0.2% are given no religion.

Almost 21.1% of the population live in cities. The largest city is Hoshiarpur with 168,653 inhabitants.

economy

According to official statistics, the district of Hoshiarpur 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 .