Yamunanagar (District)

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Yamunanagar District
District map
State Haryana
Administrative headquarters : Yamunanagar
Area : 1768 km²
Residents : 1,214,205 (2011)
Population density : 687 inhabitants / km²
Website : www.yamunanagar.gov.in

Yamunanagar is a district in the Indian state of Haryana .

The area is 1768 km². The administrative seat is the city of the same name Yamunanagar .

history

The region was historically under the influence of various empires and empires such as the Maurya Empire , the Gupta Empire , the Sultanate of Delhi , the Mughal Empire and the British Empire .

population

Population statistics have been available since 1991:

year 1991 2001 2011
Residents 806.300 1,041,630 1.214.205

The population was 1,214,205 (2011). The population growth rate in the period from 2001 to 2011 was 16.57%. Yamunanagar has a gender ratio of 877 women per 1000 men and thus a common surplus of men for India. The district had a literacy rate of 77.99% in 2011 , an increase of almost 6 percentage points compared to 2001. The literacy rate is thus slightly above the national average. Almost 81.1% of the population are Hindus , approx. 11.4% are Muslims , approx. 7.0% are Sikhs , 0.3% are Christians , approx. 0.1% are Jainas and 0.1% did not give any Belonging to or belonging to other religions. Children under 6 years of age are 12.1% of the population.

Almost 38.9% of the population live in cities. The largest city is Yamunanagar with 216,677 inhabitants.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Hisar District - Population 1991–2011
  2. 2011 census (PDF; 398 kB)
  3. ^ Indian Districts by Population, Sex Ratio, Literacy 2011 Census. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .