Ambedkar Nagar district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Uttar Pradesh
- Division
- Ayodhya
- Established
- 29 September 1995 ; 30 years ago ( 1995-09-29 )
- Headquarters
- Akbarpur
- Tehsils
- Akbarpur , Tanda , Jalalpur , Alapur , Bhiti
- Lok sabha constituencies
- 1. Ambedkar Nagar Lok Sabha constituency - Akbarpur, Jalalpur, Katehari, Tanda, 2. Sant Kabir Nagar (Lok Sabha constituency) - Alapur
- Vidhan sabha constituencies
- 1. Katehari , 2. Akbarpur , 3. Tanda , 4. Jalalpur , 5. Alapur
- District magistrate
- Anupam Shukla, IAS
- Superintendent of police
- Abhijeet R Shankar , IPS
- Total
- 2,350 km (910 sq mi)
- Density
- 1,020/km (2,640/sq mi)
- Literacy
- 74.37%
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Vehicle registration
- UP-45
- Major highways
- NH 28 , NH 128 , NH 233A , NH 233B NH 135A , Purvanchal Expressway , Gorakhpur Link Expressway
- Website
- Official Website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Named after
- B. R. Ambedkar
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Ayodhya division
- Capital
- Akbarpur
- Population
- 2397888
- Area
- 2520
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Official website
- ambedkarnagar.nic.in
- Households
- 368728
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- Commons category
- Ambedkar Nagar district
- topic's main category
- Category:Ambedkar Nagar district
- male population
- 1212410
- female population
- 1185478
- urban population
- 280730
- rural population
- 2117158
- literate population
- 1486939
- illiterate population
- 910949
- different from
- Dr. Ambedkar Nagar
- short name
- AMN
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Encyclopedic overview
Ambedkar Nagar district is one of the 75 districts of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. This district is a part of Ayodhya division in the Awadh region of the state. This district was established on 29 September 1995 by carving out parts of the erstwhile Faizabad district (now Ayodhya district). It was created by the then Chief Minister Mayawati and named in memory of B. R. Ambedkar, who worked for the advancement of the depressed classes. Hindi and Awadhi are the most widely spoken languages in the district. The total area of Ambedkar Nagar district is 2350 Sq. Km.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ambedkar Nagar district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.