Amritsar district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Punjab
- Named after
- Suffice of Amrit
- Headquarters
- Amritsar
- Commissioner of police
- Arun Pal Singh
- Total
- 2,683 km (1,036 sq mi)
- Density
- 928.3/km (2,404/sq mi)
- Official
- Punjabi
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Vehicle registration
- PB-01(commercial) PB-02, PB-14, PB-17, PB-18, PB-81, PB-89
- Literacy 7
- 76.27%
- Website
- amritsar .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Capital
- Amritsar
- Population
- 2490656
- Area
- 2683
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Tarn Taran district
- Official website
- amritsar.nic.in/html/about_district.htm
- Image
- PunjabAmritsar.png
- Households
- 488898
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- Commons category
- Amritsar district
- topic's main category
- Category:Amritsar district
- male population
- 1318408
- female population
- 1172248
- urban population
- 1334611
- inception
- 1947-00-00
- rural population
- 1156045
- literate population
- 1684770
- illiterate population
- 805886
- short name
- AMT
- native label
- Amritsar
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Encyclopedic overview
Amritsar district is one of the twenty three districts that make up the Indian state of Punjab. Located in the Majha region of Punjab, the city of Amritsar is the headquarters of this district.
As of 2011, it is the second most populous district of Punjab (out of 23), after Ludhiana. It is a border district of Punjab and lies along the India-Pakistan border.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Amritsar district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.