Amroha district
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district of Uttar Pradesh, India
Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Uttar Pradesh
- Division
- Moradabad
- Established as a district
- 24th April 1997
- Headquarters
- Amroha
- Sub division tehsils
- Amroha Hasanpur Dhanaura Naugawan Sadat
- Lok sabha constituency
- Amroha
- Vidhan sabha seats
- 39Dhanaura (SC) 40Naugawan Sadat 41Amroha 42Hasanpur
- Total
- 2,321 km (896 sq mi)
- Density
- 792.9/km (2,053/sq mi)
- Urban
- 56%
- Literacy
- 50.21%
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Vehicle registration
- UP-23
- Average annual precipitation
- 1,120 mm
- Website
- Official Website
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Amroha district is one of the 75 districts of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Amroha was earlier a part of Moradabad district. On 15 April 1997, it was separated from Moradabad and made a new district. This district was named Jyotiba Phule Nagar, but in 2012 it was changed to Amroha. It is located in western India near the Ganga River region of Rohilkhand.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Amroha district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.