Banda district
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district of Uttar Pradesh, India
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The entry is geolocated on the map in adm2nd.
It is catalogued under topics including Banda district, India, Bundelkhand and Districts of Uttar Pradesh.
Its subject is documented across 36 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Uttar Pradesh
- Division
- Chitrakoot
- Headquarters
- Banda
- District collector
- J. Reebha (IAS)
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Banda (shared with Chitrakoot district)
- Total
- 4,413 km (1,704 sq mi)
- Density
- 407.8/km (1,056/sq mi)
- Urban
- 275,755
- Literacy
- 68.11 per cent
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Website
- banda .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Chitrakoot division
- Capital
- Banda
- Population
- 1799410
- Area
- 4413
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Fatehpur district
- Official website
- banda.nic.in
- Households
- 319963
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- Commons category
- Banda district, India
- topic's main category
- Category:Banda district, India
- male population
- 965876
- female population
- 833534
- urban population
- 275755
- rural population
- 1523655
- literate population
- 1002937
- illiterate population
- 796473
- short name
- BAN
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Encyclopedic overview
Banda district is a district of Uttar Pradesh state of India, and Banda is the district headquarters. It is a part of Chitrakoot Division.
Located in historical Bundelkhand region, Banda is famous for its Shajar stone which is used for making jewellery, and the historically and architecturally significant sites Khajuraho and Kalinjar. Khajuraho is a World Heritage Site famous for its elaborately carved temples. The fortress of Kalinjar is famed for its war history and its glorious rock sculptures.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Banda district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.