Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Odisha
- Established
- 1 April 1993
- Headquarters
- Angul
- Type
- District
- Collector district magistrate
- Abdaal M. Akhtar, IAS
- Superintendent of police
- Rahul Jain, IPS
- Total
- 6,232 km (2,406 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 875.5 m (2,872 ft)
- Density
- 204.4/km (529.4/sq mi)
- Official
- Odia , English
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 759100–759122
- Telephone code
- 06764
- Vehicle registration
- Angul OD-19, Talcher OD-35
- Nearest cities
- Cuttack , Bhubaneswar , Sambalpur
- Sex ratio
- 0.942 ♂ / ♀
- Literacy
- 78.96%
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Capital
- Angul
- Population
- 1273821
- Area
- 6232
- Elevation
- 875.5
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Debagarh district
- Official website
- angul.nic.in
- Households
- 297050
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- topic's main category
- Category:Angul district
- male population
- 655718
- Commons category
- Angul district
- postal code
- 759122
- inception
- 1993-04-01
- female population
- 618103
- urban population
- 206546
- rural population
- 1067275
- literate population
- 869456
- illiterate population
- 404365
- short name
- ANU
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Angul district, also known as Anugul district, is one of the thirty districts of Odisha in eastern India. The city of Angul is the district headquarters of Angul district. A major industrial hub of the state, the district hosts numerous industries relating to coal, bauxite and steel apart from extensive forests including the Satkosia Tiger Reserve.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Angul district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.