Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Uttar Pradesh
- Division
- Meerut
- Headquarters
- Baghpat
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Baghpat
- Vidhan sabha
- Chhaprauli , Baraut , Bagpat
- Total
- 1,321 km (510 sq mi)
- Density
- 986.4/km (2,555/sq mi)
- Official
- Hindi
- Additional official
- Urdu
- Literacy
- 72.01 per cent
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Major highways
- NH 334 , NH 709B
- Website
- bagpat .nic .in
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Encyclopedic overview
Bagpat district, also spelled as Baghpat district, is one of the 75 districts of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, with headquarters at the town of Baghpat. It is within the National Capital Region. Created in 1997, the district has an area of 1,321 square kilometres (510 sq mi). Baghpat has a population of 1,303,048 as of 2011 census.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bagpat district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.