Sheopur (district)

Sheopur District
State	Madhya Pradesh
Administrative headquarters :	Sheopur
Area :	8758 km²
Residents :	687,861 (2011)
Population density :	157 inhabitants / km²
Website :	www.sheopur.in

Sheopur is a district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh .

The area is 8758 km². The administrative seat is the city of Sheopur . The Kuno Game Reserve is partially located in the area.

history

The district was formed in 1995 from parts of the Morena district

population

The population was 687,861 (2011). The population growth rate in the period from 2001 to 2011 was 22.94%. Sheopur has a gender ratio of 901 women per 1000 men and thus a common surplus of men for India. The district had a literacy rate of 57.43% in 2011 , an increase of almost 8 percentage points compared to 2001. This means that literacy is well below the national average. Almost 92.9% of the population are Hindus , approx. 6.0% are Muslims , 0.9% are Sikhs , 0.1% are Jainas and 0.1% said they did not belong to any religion or belonged to other religions. 17% of the population are children under 6 years of age.

Almost 15.6% of the population live in cities.

Web links

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

• District map

Individual evidence

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

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