Narayanpur (District)

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Narayanpur District
District map
State Chhattisgarh
Administrative headquarters : Narayanpur
Area : 4653 km²
Residents : 139,820 (2011)
Population density : 30 people / km²
Website : www.narayanpur.gov.in

Narayanpur is a district in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh .

The area is 4653 km². The administrative seat is the city of Narayanpur .

history

Narayanpur District was created in 2007 when it was created from parts of Bastar District . The district was part of Madhya Pradesh until 2000 when the new state of Chhattisgarh was established. The district is part of the Naxalite - communist influenced " Red Corridor ".

population

The population was 139,820 (2011). The population growth rate in the period from 2001 to 2011 was 19.16%. Koriya has a gender ratio of 994 women per 1000 men and thus a common surplus of men for India. The district had a literacy rate of 48.62% in 2011 (men: 57.31%, women: 39.88%). This makes literacy one of the lowest in all of India. Almost 92.4% of the population are Hindus , approx. 0.6% are Muslims , approx. 0.3% are Jainas , approx. 0.4% are Christians , approx. 0.1% each are Buddhists or Sikhs and approx. 6.2% stated no religious affiliation or practiced other religions. 16.7% of the population are children under 6 years of age. The Chhattisgarhi language is spoken in the region .

Almost 15.8% of the population live in cities.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2 new districts formed in Chhattisgarh - News - Webindia123.com. Accessed May 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ 2011 census (PDF; 398 kB)
  3. ^ Indian Districts by Population, Sex Ratio, Literacy 2011 Census. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .