Khammam (district)

Khammam
State	Telangana
Administrative headquarters :	Khammam
Area :	16,029 km²
Residents :	2,798,214 (2011)
Population density :	174.6 inhabitants / km²
Website :	Official website of the district

Khammam ( Telugu : ఖమ్మం జిల్లా, Hindi : खम्मम जिला) is a district in the Indian state of Telangana . The main town of the district is Khammam .

History and creation

The district of Khammam was created from five districts of the then Warangal district on October 1, 1953. In 1959, the district was created in its current form by incorporating further areas from the districts of East Godavari and West Godavari .

geography

The district is in the east of Telangana . It is framed in the north by the states of Odisha and Chhattisgarh , in the east and southeast by the state of Andhra Pradesh , in the southwest by the district of Nalgonda and in the west by the district of Warangal .

The district has an area of 16,029 km ² . 8,437 km ² (52.6 percent) of the area are forested.

climate

Sunset in the Kinnarsani Nature Reserve

The climate is divided into four seasons. April and May is summer time with great drought and high temperatures. The southwest monsoon from June to mid-October brings the most abundant rain. The northeast monsoon from mid-October to the end of December brings somewhat lower, but still significant amounts of rain. The amount of precipitation increases in the district from the southwest to the northeast. Winter is in the months of January to March with slightly cooler temperatures. The long-term average of rainfall in the district is 1059 mm per year. The southwest monsoon brings 872 mm and the northeast monsoon 101 mm of the annual rainfall. Otherwise there will be little rain. This leads to the drying up of the cultivated areas in the dry season, which lasts from January to May. The coldest month is December (average 22.85 ° - daily minimum 17 °, maximum 29 °), the warmest May (average 33.33 ° - minimum 27 °, maximum 39 °). During the Mosun season there is a humidity of up to 80 percent. This falls to 30 percent in the dry period.

population

The last census in 2011 counted 2,797,370 inhabitants. Of these, 1,390,988 were men (49.7 percent) and 1,406,382 women. Among the Dalits were 2001 426.692 (16.5 percent), the Adivasi 682,617 (26.5 percent) people. Of the total number of residents, 655,911 people (23.45 percent) lived in urban areas in 2011. Thus more than 3 out of 4 inhabitants still lived in the country. The majority of the population of Khammam District speaks Telugu . There are 1,101 inhabited villages throughout the district.

Population of the district by confession

The residents are almost entirely Hindu. The only significant religious minority are the Muslims with a little over 5 percent of the population. The Christians form a smaller minority. The following table shows the exact religious composition of the population:

year	Buddhists		Christians		Hindus		Jainas		Muslims		Sikhs		Other		not specified		Total
year	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%
2001	96	0.00%	30,777	1.19%	2,406,066	93.30%	216	0.01%	137,639	5.34%	448	0.02%	82	0.00%	3,603	0.14%	2,578,927	100.00%
2011	217	0.01%	33,463	1.20%	2,595,321	92.78%	459	0.02%	158,887	5.68%	655	0.02%	539	0.02%	7,829	0.28%	2,797,370	100.00%
Source: India's 2001 and 2011 censuses

Population development

As everywhere in India, the population in the Khammam district has been growing rapidly for decades. Although the increase in the years 2001–2011 was only below 10 percent (8.5%), it is still significant in absolute terms. From 2001 to 2011, the population still increased by around 220,000 people. The following table shows the exact numbers:

Significant places

The most populous town in the district is the main town of Khammam . This is followed by Kotthagudem and Palwanchal , each with over 50,000 inhabitants.