Uttar 24 Pargana

District Uttar 24 Pargana উত্তর চব্বিশ পরগণা জেলা
State	West Bengal
Division :	Presidency
Administrative headquarters :	Barasat
Area :	4094 km²
Residents :	10,009,781 (2011 census)
Website :	District Uttar 24 Pargana

Fields and fishing nets at Bidhannagar

Salt lake near Bidhannagar

The district of Uttar 24 Pargana ( Bengali উত্তর চব্বিশ পরগণা জেলা ) or North 24 Parganas ("northern 24 Parganas ") is part of the Indian state of West Bengal . Since 2014 it has been the most populous district in all of India; The capital is the city ​​of Barasat , 25 km northeast of Calcutta 's city center , which still belongs to the Calcutta agglomeration .

geography

The Uttar 24 Pargana district, located in the Ganges estuary, borders the Gulf of Bengal to the south, the Dakshin 24 Pargana district to the southwest, the capital of West Bengal, Calcutta and the Haora district , to the northwest to the Hugli district and to the north the district of Nadia and in the east to Bangladesh . The average height is around 10 to 15 m above sea level. d. M .; the climate is usually humid and very rainy , especially in the monsoon months from June to October. Numerous cities in the north of the district belong to the Greater Calcutta area and have over 100,000 inhabitants ( Dum Dum (approx. 650,000), Rajarhat Gopalpur (approx. 420,000), Bhatpara (approx. 400,000), Panihati (approx. 400,000), Kamarhati (approx . 350,000) and the capital Barasat (approx. 300,000)).

population

Official population statistics have only been kept and published since 1991.

year	1991	2001	2011
Residents	7,281,881	8,934,286	10,009,781

Hindus (about 73.5% of the total population) predominate mainly in the rural villages; in the cities, the proportion of Muslims (almost 26% of the total population) is also significant. The rest is made up of Christians , Jains , Sikhs and the like. a. As is usual with censuses in northern India, the male population exceeds the female share by around 5%. Approx. 42% of the people live in rural villages and around 58% live in cities.

economy

The south of the district is largely agriculturally oriented; the soils of the Sundarbans are fertile, but crops (mainly rice and sugar cane ) are threatened by floods and storms. Cattle breeding and fishing are also carried out on a small scale. The north of the district is densely populated and partly industrialized; here are several large cities that are more or less seamlessly strung together.

history

The fertile alluvial land in the Ganges Delta prompted people to settle down early on - settlements have been archaeologically proven to date back to pre-Christian times, but they were often washed away. The whole region remained largely autonomous for a long time. During the Mughal period and under British rule , the jungle landscape was sometimes used as a hunting area. However, as early as the 16th century, the Portuguese achieved a powerful position in the region that was also economically profitable through the slave trade. In 1757 the Bengal Nawab ceded 24 lands to the British East India Company . The British were the first to try to establish an administration in the vast and often badly hit area.

Attractions

Barakpur - 26 Shiva Temple

• The Shiva sanctuary of Barakpur , which consists of 26 shrines, dates from the 17th century .
• Dakshineshwar Temple , the place of activity of Ramakrishna
• Rural clay architecture can only be found in the south of the district. Modern multi-storey residential and office buildings dominate in the north.

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  Residential complex in Dum Dum

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  Hospital in Kamarhati

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  Jesuit college in Panarhati

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  Office building in Rajarhat

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ District Uttar 24 Pargana - map + information
2. ↑ District Uttar 24 Pargana - Map with altitude information
3. ↑ District Uttar 24 Pargana - climate tables
4. ↑ District Uttar 24 Pargana - Census 1991 to 2011
5. ↑ District Uttar 24 Pargana - Census 2011
6. ↑ Uttar 24 Parganas - Severe weather disasters since 1981 ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Entry on the website of the UNESCO World Heritage Center ( English and French ).