Kushinagar (District)

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Kushinagar
District कुशीनगर जिला
District map
State Uttar Pradesh
Division : Gorakhpur
Administrative headquarters : Padrauna
Area : 2905 km²
Residents : 3,564,544 (2011)
Population density : 1,227 inhabitants / km²
Website : kushinagar.nic.in

The district of Kushinagar ( Hindi : कुशीनगर जिला ) is a district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh . The district bears its name after the Buddhist pilgrimage site Kushinagar , the place where the Buddha died . The administrative center and largest city of the Kushinagar district is Padrauna .

geography

The district of Kushinagar is located in northeast Uttar Pradesh on the border with the state of Bihar and not far from the Nepalese border. Neighboring districts are Deoria in the south, Gorakhpur in the southwest, Maharajganj in the west (all Uttar Pradesh) as well as in Bihar Pashchim Champaran in the east and Gopalganj in the southeast.

The district area covers an area of ​​2905 km² and belongs to the Ganges plain . The terrain is completely flat with no remarkable features. In the east, the district area is touched by the Gandak , a tributary of the Ganges .

Administrative division

The Kushinagar District is part of the Gorakhpur Division . It is divided into the four Tehsils Padrauna, Hata, Kasya and Tamkuhi Raj.

history

Kushinagar has existed as an independent district since 1994. Before that, the area was part of the Deoria district.

population

According to the 2011 census, the Kushinagar district has 3,564,544 residents. Between 2001 and 2011, the population grew by 23 percent. The population density of 1227 inhabitants per km² is still higher than the already high average of Uttar Pradesh (829 inhabitants per km²). The district has a very rural character: the degree of urbanization is one of the lowest in Uttar Pradesh at less than five percent. At 65 percent, the literacy rate is below the state average (68 percent).

According to the 2001 census , Hindus make up the majority of the inhabitants of the Kushinagar district with 83 percent. There is also a Muslim minority of 17 percent. Buddhists play despite the historical significance Kushinagars for Buddhism with a population share of 0.2 percent, as elsewhere in northern India demographically hardly matters.

Attractions

Parinirvana Temple in Kushinagar

The eponymous place Kushinagar is an important Buddhist sanctuary. Here died Siddhartha Gautama , the historical Buddha , and went into the Buddhist idea of parinirvana one. In addition to Buddha's birthplace Lumbini , Bodhgaya , where he achieved enlightenment, and Sarnath , where he held his first pregigt, Kushinagar is one of the four most important pilgrimage sites of Buddhism and is visited by numerous Buddhist pilgrims, especially from Southeast and East Asia. Kushinagar has a stupa dating back to the 5th century , the ruins of four monasteries and a number of modern temples.

Cities

city Population
(2001)
Hata 11,259
Kaptanganj 11,493
Khadda 14,332
Kushinagar 17,982
Padrauna 44,357
Ramkola 13,333
Sewarhi 19,763

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Census of India 2011: Primary Census Abstract - Uttar Pradesh (PDF; 1.7 MB).
  2. ^ Census of India 2001: Basic Data Sheet. District Kushinagar (59), Uttar Pradesh (09). (PDF; 55 kB)
  3. ↑ Census of India 2001: Population, population in the age group 0-6 and literates by sex - Cities / Towns (in alphabetic order) ( Memento from June 16, 2004 in the Internet Archive )