Key facts
- Administering country
- India
- Union territory
- Jammu and Kashmir
- Division
- Kashmir
- Headquarters
- Anantnag
- Tehsils
- Anantnag Anantnag East Mattan Bijbehara Shangas Kokernag Larnoo Dooru Shahbadballa Qazigund Pahalgam Saller Srigufwara
- Lok sabha constituency
- Anantnag - Rajouri
- Mp
- Mian Altaf Larvi , JKNC
- Vidhan sabha constituencies
- 7 constituencies
- Deputy commissioner dc dm ddc
- Syeed Fakhrudin Hamid ( IAS )
- Total
- 3,574 km (1,380 sq mi)
- Density
- 301.8/km (781.7/sq mi)
- Literacy
- 62.69%
- Sex ratio
- 927 ♀ / 1000 ♂
- Official
- Kashmiri , Urdu , Hindi , Dogri , English
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Vehicle registration
- JK-03
- Major highways
- NH 44 , NH 244 , NH 501
- Average annual precipitation
- 747 mm
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Kashmir division
- Capital
- Anantnag
- Population
- 1078692
- Area
- 3574
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Doda district
- Official website
- anantnag.gov.in
- Image
- Srinagar to Pahalgam - vrvvkbjk2k23iph (277).jpg
- Households
- 153640
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- Commons category
- Anantnag district
- topic's main category
- Category:Anantnag district
- male population
- 559767
- female population
- 518925
- urban population
- 282887
- rural population
- 795805
- literate population
- 545532
- illiterate population
- 533160
- short name
- ATG
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Encyclopedic overview
Anantnag district is an administrative district of India-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region.
It is one of ten districts which make up the Kashmir Valley. The district headquarters is Anantnag city. As of 2011, it was the third most populous district of Jammu and Kashmir (out of 22), after Jammu and Srinagar.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Anantnag district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.