Jalandhar (District)

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Jalandhar District
District map
State Punjab
Administrative headquarters : Jalandhar
Area : 2624 km²
Residents : 2,193,590 (2011)
Population density : 836 inhabitants / km²
Website : jalandhar.nic.in

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

The area is 2624 km². The administrative seat is the city of Jalandhar .

population

The population is 2,193,590 (2011). The population growth rate from 2001 to 2011 was 11.76%. Jalandhar has a gender ratio of 915 women per 1000 men and thus a common surplus of men for India. The district has a literacy rate of 82.48% in 2011, an increase of almost 4.5 percentage points compared to 2001. The literacy rate is thus above the regional and national average. Almost 63.6% of the population are Hindus , 32.8% are Sikhs , 1.4% are Muslims , 1.2% are Christians , 0.5% are Buddhists , 0.2% are Jainas and 0.4% are given no religion.

Almost 52.9% of the population live in cities. The largest city is Jalandhar with 862,886 inhabitants.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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