Sitamarhi (District)

Sitamarhi District
State	Bihar
Administrative headquarters :	Sitamarhi
Area :	2294 km²
Residents :	3,423,574 (2011)
Population density :	1492 inhabitants / km²
Website :	sitamarhi.bih.nic.in/

Sitamarhi is a district in the Indian state of Bihar .

The area is 2294 km². The administrative seat is the city of Sitamarhi .

history

According to Indian mythology , Sitamarhi is the birthplace of the goddess Sita . There is a temple in the district to honor her.

Sitamarhi became a district when it was separated from Muzaffarpur in 1972

population

The population is 3,423,574 (2011). The population growth rate in the period from 2001 to 2011 was 27.62% and was therefore very high. Vaishali has a gender ratio of 899 women per 1000 men and thus a common surplus of men for India. The district has a literacy rate of 52.05% in 2011, an increase of almost 14 percentage points compared to 2001. Reading skills are thus well below the national average. Almost 78% of the population are Hindus and around 22% are Muslim . The Bhojpuri language is common in the district.

Only 5.6% of the population live in cities. The largest agglomeration was Sitamarhi with 106,093 inhabitants.

economy

According to official statistics, the Sitamarhi district is one of the 250 most backward districts in India, which is divided into a total of 640 districts.

Web links

• District map

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dilip K Chakrabarti: Archaeological Geography of the Ganga Plain: The Lower and the Middle Ganga . Orient Blacksawn, New Delhi 2001, ISBN 9788178240169 , p. 207.
2. ↑ 2011 census (PDF; 398 kB)
3. ^ Indian Districts by Population, Sex Ratio, Literacy 2011 Census. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .