Sheohar (District)

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Sheohar District
District map
State Bihar
Administrative headquarters : Sheohar
Area : 349 km²
Residents : 656,246 (2011)
Population density : 1880 inhabitants / km²
Website : sheohar.bih.nic.in/

Sheohar is a district in the Indian state of Bihar .

The area is 349 km². The administrative seat is the city of Sheohar .

population

The population was 656,246 in 2011. The population growth rate in the period from 2001 to 2011 was 30.25% and was therefore very high. Sheohar has a gender ratio of 893 women per 1000 men and thus a male surplus typical for India. The district had a literacy rate of 53.53% in 2011 , an increase of almost 18 percentage points compared to 2001. However, literacy is still well below the national average. Almost 84% of the population are Hindus and around 15% are Muslim .

Only 4.3% of the population live in cities.

economy

According to official statistics, the Sheohar district is one of the 250 most backward districts in India, which is divided into a total of 640 districts. Sheohar was one of the three poorest districts in Bihar, which is considered the poorest state in India, from 2007 to 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. 2011 census (PDF; 398 kB)
  2. ^ Indian Districts by Population, Sex Ratio, Literacy 2011 Census. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .
  3. Economic Survey 2016 - 17. (No longer available online.) Government of Bihar, Finance Department, archived from the original on July 29, 2017 ; accessed on July 28, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / finance.bih.nic.in