Tumkur (District)

Tumkur ; District ತುಮಕೂರು ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ
State	Karnataka
Division :	Bangalore
Administrative headquarters :	Tumkur
Area :	10,599 km²
Residents :	2,681,449 (2011)
Population density :	253 inhabitants / km²

The Tumkur district ( Kannada : ತುಮಕೂರು ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ ) is a district of the Indian state of Karnataka . The administrative center is the eponymous city of Tumkur (Tumakuru).

geography

Landscape in the Tumkur district

The Tumkur district is located in the southeast of Karnataka. Neighboring districts are Chikballapur in the east, Bengaluru Rural and Ramanagara in the southeast, Mandya in the south, Hassan in the southwest, Chitradurga in the northwest and Anantapur in the northeast. The latter already belongs to the neighboring state of Andhra Pradesh .

The Tumkur district is divided into the ten taluks Chiknayakanhalli, Gubbi, Koratagere, Kunigal, Madhugiri, Pavagada, Sira, Tiptur, Tumkur and Turuvekere. The demarcation of the district is quite complex: the northernmost Taluk Pavagada is separated from the rest of the district by a tip belonging to Andhra Pradesh and in turn protrudes into the Andhra Pradesh area.

With an area of 10,599 square kilometers, the Tumkur district is the third largest district of Karnataka. The area belongs to the southern part of the Dekkan Plateau and forms a plateau, which in the south has an average height of around 800 meters above sea level and flattens out to the north. The Devarayanadurga Mountains, which reach heights of around 1,200 meters, run through the district in a north-south direction. This mountain range marks the watershed between the catchment areas of the Krishna and Kaveri rivers .

history

During the British colonial period , the Tumkur Kolar belonged to the princely state of Mysore . After Indian independence, Mysore joined the Indian Union in 1949. Through the reorganization of the Indian states, the Tumkur district became part of the state of Mysore (renamed Karnataka in 1973 ), which was created after the language borders of the Kannada .

population

According to the 2011 Indian census, the Tumkur district has 2,681,449 inhabitants. Population growth is low: between 2001 and 2011, the population only grew by 3.7 percent and thus significantly lower than the average in Karnataka (15.7 percent). The population density is 253 people per square kilometer, lower than the state average (319 people per square kilometer). 22.5 percent of the inhabitants of the Tumkur district live in cities. The degree of urbanization is thus lower than the mean value in Karnataka (38.6 percent). At 74.3 percent, the literacy rate is close to the state average (76.1 percent).

According to the 2001 census , Hindus make up a large majority of 90.9 percent of the residents of the district . For Islam is a minority of 8.2 per cent committed. The 2001 census classified 7.5 percent of the district population as members of the tribal population (cf. Adivasi ). These are almost exclusively members of the Naikda .

In addition to Kannada , the main language of Karnataka, and Urdu , which is spoken by most Muslims in the whole of Karnataka, Telugu , the language of the neighboring state of Andhra Pradesh, is also widespread in the Tumkur district .

Cities

city	Population (2001)
Adityapatna	4,236
Chiknayakanhalli	22,360
Gubbi	16.802
Koratagere	13,638
Kunigal	30.291
Madhugiri	26,351
Pavagada	28,036
Sira	50,056
Tipture	53,043
Tumkur	248,592
Turuvekere	13,275

Individual evidence

↑ Census of India 2011: Provisional Population Totals: Data Sheet (PDF; 1.7 MB) and Population and decadal growth rate by residence Persons. (PDF; 1.3 MB)
^ Census of India 2001: Basic Data Sheet. District Tumkur (18), Karnataka (29). (PDF; 55 kB)
↑ Census of India 2001: Population, population in the age group 0-6 and literates by sex - Cities / Towns (in alphabetic order) ( Memento from June 16, 2004 in the Internet Archive )

literature

The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Volume 24: Travancore to Zīra. New edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1908, pp. 52–59 , keyword: Tumkūr District .

Web links

Commons : Tumkur - collection of images, videos and audio files

[1] Census of India 2011: Provisional Population Totals: Data Sheet (PDF; 1.7 MB) and Population and decadal growth rate by residence Persons. (PDF; 1.3 MB)

[2] Census of India 2001: Basic Data Sheet. District Tumkur (18), Karnataka (29). (PDF; 55 kB)

[3] Census of India 2001: Population, population in the age group 0-6 and literates by sex - Cities / Towns (in alphabetic order) ( Memento from June 16, 2004 in the Internet Archive )