Siddharthnagar

Siddharthnagar district
State	Uttar Pradesh
Administrative headquarters :	Navgarh
Area :	2,895 km²
Residents :	2,559,297 (2011)
Population density :	884 inhabitants / km²
Website :	www.siddharthnagar.nic.in/

Siddharthnagar is a district in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh .

The area is 2,895 km². The administrative seat is the city of Navgarh .

history

Some people suggest that what is now Piprahwa-Ganwaria was the location of the ancient city of Kapilavastu, the capital of the Shakya kingdom , where Siddhartha Gautama spent the first 29 years of his life, according to Buddhist texts such as the Pali canon . Others suspect that the original location of Kapilavastu is 16 kilometers northwest near Tilaurakot in today's Kapilbastu district in Nepal .

population

The population is 2,559,297 (2011). The population growth rate in the period from 2001 to 2011 was 25.45% and is therefore very high. Siddharthnagar has a gender ratio of 976 women per 1000 men. The district has a literacy rate of 59.25% in 2011, an increase of almost 17 percentage points compared to 2001. Almost 70% of the population are Hindus , about 29% are Muslims and about 1% are followers of other religions.

The urbanization rate of the district is approximately 6.3%.

Web links

• District map

Individual evidence

1. ^ AK Narain: The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies . University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA 1979 ( Online [PDF; 1.5 MB ; accessed on August 8, 2019]).
2. ↑ 2011 census (PDF; 398 kB)
3. ^ Indian Districts by Population, Sex Ratio, Literacy 2011 Census. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .